Rick Owens Is Finding a Balance Between Control and Collapse

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, a new exhibition dedicated to the work of Rick Owens titled, “Rick Owens: Temple of Love,” opens at the Palais Galliera in Paris—the third such retrospective ever given to a living designer following shows on Azzedine Alaïa in 2013, and Martin Margiela in 2018. Owens joins Nicole Phelps from his office in Paris to discuss how the show came together, his early days as a designer, and his advice for young fashion students.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Run Through is brought to you by eBay.
0:03.7	I'm Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue's Beauty Editor at Large.
0:06.9	Everyone's talking about tassels right now, and that's the moment that I end up typing it into eBay.
0:11.4	I found the perfect vintage triple chain belt with golden tassels, and it just looks so elegant, timeless, and it's on the way in the mail to me thanks to eBay.
0:31.3	This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps. Today I am joined by the one, the only Rick Owens.
0:37.6	He joined us from his studio in Paris, and we talked about Temple of Love, his upcoming retrospective at the Pele-Galliera.
0:44.4	We also talked about his first-ever runway show and his advice for young designers.
0:48.4	Here's my conversation with Rick Owens.
0:53.1	Hi there.
0:55.0	Hello. How are you?
0:56.0	Can you hear it me?
0:57.0	Yes.
0:58.0	Where am I reaching you?
1:00.0	One World Trade Center in our new podcast studio.
1:03.0	Where are you?
1:05.0	Are you in Italy?
1:06.0	Are you in Paris?
1:07.0	My office in Paris.
1:09.0	Let's see.
1:11.6	You can kind of see the studio.
1:14.6	And it's a beautiful sign.
1:18.6	And if you see closely,
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