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After staging last season’s intimate show at his home, Rick Owens wrote in today’s Spring/Summer 2025 show notes that he “felt bad about making attendance so restricted.” So this time around, at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo (a frequented venue by the designer), he decided to open up his fashion-week spectacle to the masses. “I asked all the fashion schools in Paris to send us students and faculty, men or women, who would like to walk in [the show],” he said.

The result was a runway filled with just 10 looks worn by 200 total models, forming what he called his “white satin army of love.” The collection’s name, “Hollywood,” offered a tribute to the Los Angeles “boulevard of vice” where Owens found his people — “flaming creatures” and “weirdos and freaks,” he called them. His sartorial depiction of those character tropes appeared entirely in heavenly off-white hues, despite the “lurid sin” and “redeeming morality” they might otherwise possess.



To the strums of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 Allegretto, Owens’ fashion brigade communicated a message of universalism. Longtime Owens muse and designer Tyrone Dylan Susman opened the show in a sculptural, chiffon coat, boasting strong opaque shoulders, a deep V-neck and a sheer body that revealed trashed gym shorts.

Behind him, a legion of the designer’s eclectic models were draped in the same garment. Jackets and capes were made with narrow-loomed denim, which was treated in an Italian washhou.

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