Rick Owens Unveils His "Temple" for SS26
Models walked through water as the lord of darkness delivered a collection that is equal parts glamour and sleaze, sincerity and shadow.
Rick Owens cracked open the doors to his “Temple” for Spring/Summer 2026, collapsing the line between his menswear and womenswear codes shared between seasons. The show dropped in sync with his Palais Galliera retrospective, aptly titled Temple of Love.
We saw Owens at his best: equal parts glamour and sleaze, sincerity and shadow. Staged at Palais de Tokyo on the fourth evening of Paris Fashion Week, the collection funneled European cultural tropes through his apocalyptic brand of “American bluntness.”
“Tough clothes for tough times,” the show notes warned. Models stormed fountains and sloshed through water like soldiers of a fractured world. Across 45 looks, Owens doubled down on his dark signatures: the opener in a mesh-wrapped top strapped into leather trousers and Kiss heels zipped to the bone.
Down the steps came an elongated white tank flowing like liquid, sheer dresses sliced open at the chest, and those warped, jarring shoulder inserts he’s made his own. Nylon tulle got a new life via Matisse di Maggio, sequinned so lightly it looked ghostly. Shaggy cover-ups blurred into puffed gowns and sleek leather jackets, before a closing look stamped with Owens’ hand-drawn birth chart sealed the mythology.
Take a closer look at Rick Owens SS26 in the gallery above.
