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Look of the Week: FKA Twigs brings dystopian chic to Paris

FKA twigs poses on the steps of the Palais de Tokyo ahead of Rick Owens' Fall-Winter 2025 menswear show at Paris Fashion Week.
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January 24, 2025

(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 afternoonโ€™s 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.

Look of the Week: FKA Twigs brings dystopian chic to Paris
Models are pictured backstage during Rick Owens' show, where the American designer unveiled his futuristic new collection.

The English pop starโ€™s 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 musicianโ€™s look would not look amiss in movies like โ€œThe Fifth Elementโ€ and โ€œMad Max.โ€ โ€œFKA 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 designerโ€™s 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 singerโ€™s EP โ€œM3LL155Xโ€ in 2015.

Look of the Week: FKA Twigs brings dystopian chic to Paris
Look of the Week: FKA Twigs brings dystopian chic to Paris

FKA Twigs has chosen major fashion events to promote her music before, using a 2023 performance at Italian label Valentinoโ€™s Paris Fashion Week show to debut new song โ€œUnearth Me.โ€ And the timing of this weekโ€™s head-turning appearance was perhaps no coincidence, coming just a day before the release of her new album, โ€œEusexua.โ€

Yet, far from being overshadowed by the starโ€™s 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 โ€œConcordians,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 โ€œimmerseโ€ himself in โ€œthe rhythm of an industrial production schedule.โ€

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