28 Quotes by Rick Owens

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

Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.

I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.