Rick Owens will show his creations in Paris. Starting June 28, the Palais Galliera will host the first exhibition in the Ville lumière dedicated to the American designer, named "Temple of Love". The exhibition will cover the designer’s entire career and extend to the facade of the building and its garden, with plus 30 brutalist cement statues wrapped in a fabric embroidered with sequins. Owens is the artistic director of the show, which is considered a meditation on love, beauty, and diversity, presented in a monumental setting.

The retrospective will feature more than 100 fashion silhouettes, in addition to personal documents, videos, installations, and works by Gustave Moreau, Joseph Beuys, and Steven Parrino. Over his long and fruitful career, he has drawn on a wide range of references, such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, contemporary art, and early Hollywood films, including the biblical epics by Cecil B. DeMille that inspired his epic spring 2025 menswear show.

The showcase is also to focus on the central role of his wife and muse Michèle Lamy (including a recreation of the California bedroom he shared with her), whose presence is felt throughout the exhibition.

California-born Owens began designing in Los Angeles in 1994 before moving to Paris in 2003. His spectacular shows feature silhouettes inspired by underground cultures and a decadent Hollywood glamour concept. Militantly political, he inveighs against the patriarchal grip on our societies and remains the only designer to have demonstrated women’s physical strength in collections that resemble performances. The structure of his creations, dominated by black and muted colours, reveals references ranging from Brutalist architecture to the legends of Parisian and New York haute couture, and including the great films of Hollywood’s early days.


Rick Owens "Temple of Love"
June 27, 2025 – January 04, 2026
Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, Paris1

Photo: Rick Owens SS25