A Main Rick Owens Exhibition is Coming to Palais Galliera in Paris

ALL ABOUT RICK: A recreation of the California bed room he shared together with his spouse Michèle Lamy – plus 30 brutalist cement sculptures – are all a part of a large-scale Rick Owens exhibition opening on the Palais Galliera on June 28.

On Friday, the Paris style museum shared particulars of the present, titled “Temple of Love,” which is able to cowl the American designer’s whole profession and prolong to the facade of the constructing and its backyard, with statues wrapped in a material embroidered with sequins.

Owens is serving as inventive director of the present, which Palais Galliera describes as “unprecedented” in scale and scope.

“It’s a meditation on love, magnificence and variety, introduced in a monumental setting,” it mentioned.

The retrospective is to characteristic greater than 100 style silhouettes, along with private paperwork, movies, installations and works by Gustave Moreau, Joseph Beuys and Steven Parrino.

Owens started his style profession as a pattern-cutter in Los Angeles earlier than launching his label in 1994, taking inspiration from underground tradition and ’30s glamor.

Over his lengthy and fruitful profession, he has drawn on a “wide selection of references,” in response to the museum, itemizing as examples Joris-Karl Huysmans, up to date artwork and early Hollywood movies, together with the biblical epics by Cecil B. DeMille that impressed his epic spring 2025 menswear present.

Owens moved himself and his enterprise to Paris in 2003, the place his exhibits have change into a spotlight of Paris Trend Week.

Miren Arzalluz, honorary director of the Palais Galliera, serves as normal curator of “Rick Owens: Temple of Love,” whereas Alexandre Samson, head of collections, serves as scientific curator.

Milan’s La Triennale museum staged a retrospective about Owens’ profession in 2017 titled “Subhuman Inhuman Superhuman.”