(CNN) โ Cult American designer Rick Owens transformed his Paris Fashion Week set into an industrial dystopian futurescape on Thursday, with models walking in platform boots, wide-collared jackets and visor-like wraparound sunglasses.
Amid the exaggerated sci-fi silhouettes, however, the afternoonโs most avant-garde look was arguably not on the runway, but on the star-studded front row.
Singer FKA Twigs cut an otherworldly figure as she arrived with a part-shaven bouffant, signature bleached eyebrows and an array of โ presumably temporary โ face tattoos.

The English pop starโs bold neo-gothic outfit comprised items from previous Owens collections, including tinted glasses, a rust-colored minidress and a shearling jacket. More eye-catching still were the $6,000 over-the-knee Rhino Cargoflare boots (from Owensโ Fall-Winter 2024 collection) that moved like the bellows of an accordion as she ascended the steps at Parisโ historic Palais de Tokyo.
Online commentators noted that the musicianโs look would not look amiss in movies like โThe Fifth Elementโ and โMad Max.โ โFKA Twigs slays the fashion game every time she attends a Rick Owens event,โ wrote one X user.
With its distinctly grungy aesthetic, Owensโ eponymous label is an obvious fit for FKA Twigs, a celebrity known for her edgy, goth-inspired style. The 37-year-old, who has modeled for Calvin Klein and Swiss running brand On, is a regular fixture at the designerโs shows.
She is also frequently seen wearing his creations, and in a Spotify interview released earlier this week, she even made a point of highlighting an on-set stool selected from Owensโ furniture collection. Owensโ partner and muse Michรจle Lamy meanwhile appeared in a short film accompanying the singerโs EP โM3LL155Xโ in 2015.

FKA Twigs has chosen major fashion events to promote her music before, using a 2023 performance at Italian label Valentinoโs Paris Fashion Week show to debut new song โUnearth Me.โ And the timing of this weekโs head-turning appearance was perhaps no coincidence, coming just a day before the release of her new album, โEusexua.โ
Yet, far from being overshadowed by the starโs appearance, Owens enjoyed plenty of additional attention for his new designs โ in particular, a pair of knee-high boots heaving with a plume of feathery leather strips.
The designer said his Fall-Winter 2025 line, dubbed โConcordians,โ was inspired by the industrial Italian town of Concordia sulla Secchia, where the label manufactures its wares. In his Paris show notes, Owens recalled sleeping on a couch in the factory office for five years to โimmerseโ himself in โthe rhythm of an industrial production schedule.โ
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