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Rick Owens Has Given Your Dr Martens a Dark Update
Ok but I think I need them?
March 19 2021 11:56 AM EST
March 19 2021 7:56 AM EST
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Ok but I think I need them?
If you needed a little seance for your toes, you're in luck.
The American high fashion designer Rick Owens is back -- already -- with another collaboration. After announcing a historic linkup with Converse back in January, the creative is showing the world what his version of Dr Martens look like. And we haven't to be honest: It's not incredibly different from the original.
"There are people, I think, who see me doing these collabs and think I'm a sell-out. I get it," he told Vogue. "But I also think of it as corrupting from within. If we're able to, with each of our collaborations, encourage companies to push a little further with their ethical thinking, with their sustainability--that's a great thing. We can push the envelope from inside."
As typical with Owens, the collaboration saw him revisit the punk days in the Los Angeles of his youth, name-checking Ron Athey who he had a "big crush" on. In the style itself, this meant that it was a fairly classic Dr. Marten platform boot -- which the brand has been doing for some time. The difference here is in the lacing which features a star configuration of sorts. The laces then can go up and around the top of the calf of the boot.
"When I was a teen I saw them on all the guys flying through the air at the shows I went to then... Fear... Black Flag... The Screamers... Alien Sex Fiend. Dr Martens became a symbol of a raw and sweaty vitality that I thought I might be able to pull off... and for a minute, I think I did," he said of the design. "Coming full circle to partner with Dr Martens 40 years later leads me to lacing them with pearl-colored cotton laces in a geometric pattern that I use often as a symbol of our eternal collective search for rational order; signs of hope and an affectionate blessing on the perpetual recklessness of youth."
The boots will launch on March 20. A second collaboration will release in May.
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Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.
Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.