The Palais Galliera hosts a new exhibition in Paris dedicated to the sultry designer Rick Owens. Since June 18, 2025 the museum unveils a hundred silhouettes able to enlighten the public about the career of the American designer.
After Alber Elbaz and Azzedine Alaïa, it’s Rick Owens’ turn to be at the heart of a retrospective at the Palais Galliera. The mythical fashion museum, nestled in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, highlights the work of the Californian designer in an immersive journey.
A unique artist
From June 18 to January 4, 2026, the exhibition “Rick Owens, Temple of Love” features more than 100 outfits that have marked the designer’s creative life. Known for his style against polished glamour and conventional silhouettes, Rick Owens has always distinguished himself by his strong collections, far from the standards of fashion and couture.
Sculptural, his pieces reveal outrageous volumes, abandoning the silhouette until then long-line of the world of couture in favor of humanoid creatures, as if from another planet. It uses bold fabrics and fuses them with confidence, between jersey, military materials, washed leather. The lines are rough, like carved in stone, but can reveal a certain softness at second reading. Its signature grey is the perfect representation of his universe, while his beauties are marked by a gothic style. Each parade questions, shocks and denounces, without losing this sophisticated side. Between ancient memory and post-apocalyptic vision, Rick Owens has been delivering a transgressive fashion manifesto for three decades.
Archives, videos and installations enrich this retrospective developed with the museum and Rick Owens in person. His wife, Michèle Lamy, who participated extensively in the development of the brand and influenced its style, is highlighted, for example with a reconstitution of the couple’s American bedroom. Sources of inspiration for Rick Owens, works by Gustave Moreau, Joseph Beuys and Steven Parrino are also on display.
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