Rick Owens on beauty and intolerance
“My personal effort has been to oppose intolerance in any way that I can by proposing aesthetics that are not the accepted standards or not the enforced standards. I talk about airport beauty: we’re forced to march through this gauntlet of beauty—the beauty ads, the beauty goods, perfume things—that is exactly the same globally…and it’s narrow, and it can be a little bit cruel…I want to offer something that is not exactly that…
“I want to balance out intolerance by promoting alternatives to what are the standards of beauty. When you can blur the standards of beauty, you can open up minds to think of other things, too.”