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A wearable and committed collection at the Rick Owens show
If there’s one designer you wouldn’t expect to see embracing commercial fashion, it’s Rick Owens. Yet, his Fall/Winter 2026-2027 menswear show manages to merge the designer’s underground, committed vision with a more accessible approach.
By Léa Zetlaoui.
Who would have thought that the Rick Owens exhibition at the Palais Galliera would become one of the museum’s biggest successes? As Alexandre Samson, head of the Haute Couture (from 1947) and Contemporary Creation departments, noted on Instagram, “Temple of Love” drew some 136,000 visitors between June 28th, 2025, and January 4th, 2026.
The surprise surrounding the Rick Owens’s popularity stems less from his ability to trigger strong emotions than from his ability to offer a dark, transgressive and unfiltered universe. Even though those notions are intricately linked.
On January 22nd, 2026, as the Californian designer, based in Paris since 2003, presented his Fall/Winter 2026-2027 menswear collection, he brilliantly combined committed fashion with commercial pieces.
All the looks from the Rick Owens Fall/Winter 2026-2027 menswear show.
