Can’t say that much is grabbing me off the Paris runways, and I’m still in a post-Oscars place, even though the red carpet fashion was mostly a snore this year.  But, I couldn’t let Rick Owens go by without posting.

His collection was all swooping wings and zippers and capes and a creation that’s a melding of legwarmers and chaps and ends up giving some of these models the look of stylish sepulchral mermaids.

Rick Owens Paris rtw 4

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I quite love the stark black/gray/silver palette and the silhouettes are beautiful.

So what shoes are hidden under those sweeping leg-capes?  Boots that owe a great debt to fetish footwear’s pony shoes.

Rick Owens Paris fall rtw 3  Rick Owens Paris fall rtw 6

Rick Owens Paris fall rtw 2  Rick Owens Paris fall rtw 1

 

They slouch.  They tie.  They’re wedges.  They have fins at the back that remind me a little of the infamous heel-less Marc Jacobs shoe.  They’re completely impractical.  And I love them to pieces.