September, 26th, 2014

PARIS | PRINTEMPS ÉTÉ 2015 | RICK OWENS
L’APRÉS-MIDI D’VN FAVNE. ACTE II.

Symbolists were interested in engaging their audience, stimulating their imagination by forcing them to find meaning in r dom.

“L’après-midi d’un faune” – “The Afternoon of a Faun” – is an Églogue by the French poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé. Paul Valéry considered it to be the greatest poem – written between 1865 and 1867 – in French literature. It describes the sensual experiences of a faun who has just woken up from his afternoon sleep and discusses his encounters with several nymphs during the morning in a dreamlike monologue.

Following his MODE MASCULINE musings of Spring Summer 2015 to create a sense of timelessness, Rick Owens has designed the Nymphs to the Faun, in unusual satin and nylon – MA-1, drapés, and long tunics -scattering the claims of the individual. Inflaming lust, Rick Owens heightens the mental perversion with his muse, in BDSM underwear’s and body language à la John Cranko, choreographer with the Sadler’s Wells Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.

Mallarmé’s poem formed the inspiration for the orchestral work Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy and the ballets Afternoon of a Faun by Vaslav Nijinsky, Jerome Robbins and Modernism in the arts.

Rick Owens has proved convincingly that his menswear and womenswear Spring Summer 2015 merit a pause to reflect on how Modernism is Art appliqué in fashion. The whole collection is in an act of desperation, yet a conviction of hope. Poetry fashions admiringly.

L’APRÈS-MIDI D’VN FAVNE

LE FAVNE

Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer.

Si clair,
Leur incarnat léger qu’il voltige dans l’air
Assoupi de sommeils touffus.

Aimai-je un rêve?

Stéphane Mallarmé – Nouvelle Revue française, 1914
(8e éd.) (pp. 71-80).

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