A biography for Rick Owenshasn’t been written yet.
“I have this weird thing where I don't particularly like seeing men's feet.”
“The world can be really uptight.”
“I like the idea of promoting alternative ideas of beauty.”
“I'm not a foodie.”
“People need to collect together and be shoulder to shoulder watching something transcendent. That will happen forever.”
“I always have longiflorum lilies in my proximity - I love them in bud with a sharp fresh scent, I love them at the full blast of their peak and I love them at their heady decadent decline.”
“I link what I do more to poetry usually because it sounds less lofty than a lot of other things.”
“I'm one of those people who doesn't think that sandals really belong in the city. I'm kind of a traditionalist that way.”
“Well, I try not to think about my visibility or where I stand in the fashion world. Because that's just never going to be a comfortable space. I just like to stick to my thing. I'm trying to do something I believe in.”
“I don't like those little places with low ceilings, where everyone tells you the food is wonderful but the bathroom is on the other side of a paper-thin wall. It's disgusting.”
“Anybody that creates anything is just creating new compositions of things that have existed before. We're all creating something, we're all creating our own personal works of art in ourselves.”
“There's room for fast fashion, and then there's room for another fashion faction that operates differently.”
“Not taking yourself seriously is one of the most elegant things in the world.”
“Naps are a tool I use to pace myself and not get oversaturated.”
“I was a pretty fey kid, pretty fragile.”
“I get it, I mean, it's easy to categorize somebody. I summarize things quickly, too.”
“I want to be a 16-year-old skateboarder, even if I am a middle-aged, gray-haired man - although nobody is going to know that because I am going to dye my hair forever - but every man can benefit from a suit, even me.”
“I work out almost every day.”
“The pleasure of grace and beauty is one of life's greatest rewards and some people can provide that better than others.”
“There is a dark side to the world that we're all familiar with - and you can choose to ignore it and create a sugar-coated, Disney version, or you can acknowledge both the beautiful and the dark.”