Rick Owens

Rick Owens (b. 1961) is an American fashion designer from Porterville, California, in the San Joaquin Valley. Drawn to Hollywood and Los Angeles's punk underground in the 1980s, he studied painting at Otis College of Art and Design before learning pattern-making and draping at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. He launched his eponymous line in 1994 from a storefront off Hollywood Boulevard; American Vogue underwrote his first runway show in New York, and he added menswear in 2002, shown in Paris. He later moved to Paris with his wife and partner Michèle Lamy, and also designs a furniture line.