Rick Owens

Rick Owens is an American fashion designer hailing from California, celebrated for his avant garde and subversive eye. He started his LA-based eponymous line in 1994 but it was in 2002, when he won the CFDA's New Talent award and moved to Paris, that the label well and truly exploded onto the fashion scene.

Perennial favourites include luxe leather jackets, sumptuous knits and draped dresses in a muted palette of black, white and gray.

His look has been described as "glamour-meets-grunge", but Owens himself says "I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music, with minimal chord changes, and direct. It is sweet but kind of creepy. It's about giving everything I make a worn, softened feeling. It's about an elegance being tinged with a bit of the barbaric, the sloppiness of something dragging and the luxury of not caring. At Revillon, I felt it isn't about displaying one's junk, but rather giving the woman a selfish pleasure. It is about using sable as the lining under a very humble jacket, the luxury is all hers."