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T&C HISTORY
AMERICAN GOTHIC
Since the mid-’90s, Rick Owens
has designed darkly elegant
clothes for those who, as T&C
noted in a 2015 feature, “telegraph
their status in code.” His trademark
pieces—such as distressed
cashmere T-shirts and washed
leather jackets, all disheveled in
drape and dear in price—inspire
loyalty from an unlikely mix of fans.
Diane Keaton and A$AP Rocky
wear Owens, as does Jack Dorsey,
the silent-retreat-and-fasting-
loving Twitter CEO. This year
Owens, who won the 2019 CFDA
Menswear Designer of the Year
award, is celebrating his label’s
25th anniversary. “I’m as surprised
as you are that I made it this far,”
he says.2015