Photographed by Rick Owens himself in his Paris studio, the campaign holds the stillness of a liturgy, with object, light, and body stripped to their purest form. There’s no staging, only gravity. The air feels heavy, ritualistic, almost devotional; each frame reads like an artifact rather than an image. Sissy Misfit, the London-based Turkish producer and performer, inhabits the space with that sharp duality Owens often seeks, defiance laced with surrender, presence charged with restraint. Her stance bridges the violence of sound and the discipline of form, the club’s pulse and the statue’s silence, two worlds that mirror the friction running through Owens’ entire body of work.
The collaboration expands with an exhibition curated by Sissy Misfit on November 5, conceived as an extension rather than an afterthought. It continues the dialogue between art, utility, and endurance, showing how the sacred can survive inside the industrial. This isn’t nostalgia, nor reinvention, it’s a form of persistence. The same fascination that keeps Owens circling the mechanical, the primitive, the ceremonial, returning always to that fragile moment where construction becomes emotion and brutality becomes grace.