Top five quotes from Rick Owens’ AnOther interview

Fresh off the back of Rick Owens’ SS16 show in which his muse, known as Jera, caused headlines by walking down the runway with a sign saying “Kill Angela Merkel Not”, the Californian couturier sits down with Jo-Ann Furniss for AnOther. In it, Owens spills the metaphorical beans on everything, from Ralph Lauren to A$AP Rocky, as well as his love of male aggression – its menace and vunerability. Here are our five favourite quotes from the interview.

MALE AGGRESSION AND VANITY:

“Every man wants to be heroic,” he sighs. “Male aggression always fascinates me. There is always a sense of menace and vulnerability. Whenever I do a men’s collection they are always about self-loathing; how petty, how selfish, how vain I am.”

HE IS A REACTION TO RALPH LAUREN:

“I am a reaction to Ralph Lauren. That preppy thing, in love with the British aristocracy; a whole fake world that really wants to be royal. And yet I am criticizing that kind of fakery when I am the same fake thing. Except I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater… It’s all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake.” 

HIS WIFE IS A BEEKEEPER:

“Did I tell you Michele is keeping bees on the roof? Anyway, she’s keeping bees.”

ON THEIR PETS:

“We have ugly blackbirds that serve no purpose.”

MICHELE LAMY IS A MOTHER TO ROCKY AND A WITCH FOR TWIGS

Lamy has been given a role in A$AP Rocky and FKA twigs new videos. For A$AP, she plays his mother. “I sit on a bench in Hyde Park, give him a letter and send him on his mission.” And for twigs? “I am like some kind of witch. I’m always a witch.”

Read the full interview here.