RICK OWENS SS23 EDFU THIS SEASON’S COLLECTION IS NAMED ‘EDFU’ AFTER THE EGYPTIAN TEMPLE. I HAD RECENTLY RETREATED TO EGYPT WHERE I FOUND GREAT COMFORT IN THE REMOTENESS AND SCALE OF ITS HISTORY. MY PERSONAL CONCERNS AND GLOBAL DISCOMFORTS FELT PETTY IN THE FACE OF THAT KIND OF TIMELESSNESS. LYING DOWN IN THE DIRT WITH THE VALLEY OF KINGS WITHIN VIEW WAS A PERSPECTIVE I LIKED. THE TEMPLES, STARTED BY ONE CIVILIZATION, SEIZED AND ADDED ONTO BY ANOTHER, COMPLETED BY ANOTHER AND THEN UNEARTHED BY YET ANOTHER, WERE REASSURING IN THEIR STOIC PERMANENCE. WE HAVE ALL BEEN SO DISTURBED BY THE WAR AND CONSTANT ONLINE STONE THROWING, I WANTED TO PROPOSE SOME ORDER AND DISCIPLINE... I USED SOME RIPSTOP NYLONS THAT HAD A BUTTERFLY WING LIGHTNESS WITH GRAPH-LIKE CONSTRUCTIONS THAT LENT SUBTLE SOOTHING GRIDDING ON THE BODY IN DYNEEMA, WHICH IS A PATENTED FIBER CONSIDERED TO BE THE STRONGEST IN THE WORLD. OUTSIDE OF LUXOR, AT THE TEMPLE OF EDFU, OVER THE MAIN ENTRANCE, IS A CARVING OF A WINGED SUN, SYMBOLIZING THE GOD HORUS WHO REPRESENTS THE TRIUMPH OF GOOD OVER EVIL. IN TODAY’S PRESENTATION, A BLAZING SUN CROSSES THE SKY, FALLING TO CRASH TO THE GROUND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SENSELESS DESTRUCTION ON REPEAT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. ^ THIS IS A SNIPPET OF RICK'S WORDS, FULL PIECE CAN BE FOUND ON YOUTUBE IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS SHOW'S FILM POST LENGTH LIMITATION IS PREVENTING US FROM SHARING IT ALL HERE WITH YOU •MOON FEELS TRULY BLESSED TO BE PART OF THIS EPOCH FROM OUR MAGICAL CONNECTION WITH RICK AND THE WHOLE BELOVED TEAM TO THE ALIGNMENT WITH ANCIENT EGYPT, MAGIC, PYRAMIDS, SCARABAEUS METALLIC EXCELLENCE AND THE FALLING SUNS SYMBOLISM MIGHT THIS BE THE LAST SUN TO CRASH? DO WE HAVE THE COLLECTIVE POWER TO OVERCOME THE LAST GREAT FALL RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT IN HISSTORY? ________________________________ @RICKOWENSONLINE @DANIEL_S_MAKEUP @DUFFY_DUFFY @A.M.C.CASTING @ANGUSCTMUNRO MUSIC EXCLUSIVE MIX OF ‘THE CAT’ BY EPROM AND ‘ETERNAL RAIN DESCENDING’ BY SHADES NO1 @SHOWSTUDIO NO2 @WAOFF + @MATTHEW_REEVES_PHOTOGRAPHY + MOON NO3 @VOGUEMAGAZINE NO4 @MATTHEW_REEVES_PHOTOGRAPHY NO5 @VOGUERUNWAY @STYLEDUMONDE NO7 @ANOTHERMAGAZINE @PAULPHUNG