A model at a Rick Owens fashion show Thursday in Paris brandished a banner
saying “Please Kill Angela Merkel – Not”, prompting the designer to note he
had nothing to do with the “act of protest.”
A male model who is known as Jera, according to fashion publication WWD,
flashed a white cloth which bore the message written in black marker. “It
wasn’t my idea. He pulled it out and I punched him when he came backstage,”
Owens told AFP after the show.
“He’s been my male muse for the past 12 years or something and I think he
just felt comfortable enough to have to do something in a show and I’m
furious!” he added.
A statement from Owens’s fashion house said he did not “claim
responsibility for the act of protest by a model at the spring summer 2016
show,” branding it an “independent statement.” Owens told AFP: “The irony
is that the collection is kind of about male aggression.”
“It was not planned!” he added. Owens raised eyebrows in January during the
last men’s fashion week in Paris, when his show included full frontal male
nudity. (AFP)
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