“It’s part Levi’s jacket, part biker jacket, part Madeleine Vionnet,” Rick Owens told Vogue in 2003, describing one of his signature pieces. “All that, cut apart and somehow Scotch-taped together.” ...

The epic human splendor of last season at Rick Owens gave way this time round for a collection whose aperture was more focused, pragmatic, and autobiographical. It picked up Owens’s story after he and ...