"Transforming yourself with rigour into something better than what was there before, that is very admirable, and that's honourable. Owens is a maestro of transformation through clothes, of the body through silhouette, and of perspective, creating things that resonate soundly with contemporary needs for resilience and protection."
"Tower, for Owens, actually connected to a personal mantra: temple of love, tower of light. A prayer for love and hope. Then added, And strength and protection. The spiralling crisis in the Middle East makes Owens' decision to weave five-times-stronger-than-steel Kevlar in a luxurious Como mill feel particularly prescient."
Rick Owens' Autumn/Winter 2026 collection, titled Tower, channels Marlene Dietrich as a monument to transformation and artifice. The collection features sweeping fur coats constructed from water-jet sliced goat hide in dusty, bruised pastels, referencing Dietrich's iconic white swansdown coat. Owens employs rigorous transformation through silhouette and perspective, utilizing unconventional materials including nail-blunting bull leather and specially-woven Kevlar—a fabric five times stronger than steel sourced from a Como mill. These protective materials serve as both literal armor and symbolic expressions of resilience. The collection embodies Owens' personal mantra of temple of love and tower of light, functioning as a prayer for love, hope, strength, and protection during turbulent times.
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