“I’m a Big Fan of Artifice”: How Marlene Dietrich Inspired Rick Owens’ Show

“I’m a big fan of artifice,” Rick Owens once told me, in the midst of a far-too-long conversation about Marlene Dietrich, who we are both big fans of. She was, strangely, an inspiration for his Autumn/Winter 2026 collection – titled Tower, as in of strength, and Eiffel. That isn’t a very Owens-ian thing to reference, but Dietrich is something of a monument. You could clock her inference in sweeping fur coats, constructed from water-jet sliced circles of goat hide thathellip;

read more raquo;

nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (24 images)nbsp;