Rick Owens Opens an OnlyFans Account Dedicated to His Feet
“I thought it was an interesting way to approach aging,” said the designer, noting that he was inspired by an 18th-century aristocrat who “reduced her life to photographing her feet.”
As he himself admitted, Rick Owens said, “I will keep transgressing until the day I die, because that is my protest,” he declared to WWD. “It’s a response to the moralism and prudish judgment I see in the world. It’s my way of saying, ‘Relax, don’t take everything so seriously.’ A bit of perverse fun is chic.”
The designer made this statement during an interview about his retrospective exhibition, which opened Thursday at the Palais Galliera fashion museum in Paris.
He also casually mentioned that he would be launching an OnlyFans account dedicated to his feet.
He said he was inspired by the Countess of Castiglione, an 18th-century Italian aristocrat who commissioned hundreds of photos of herself until her later years, when she locked herself away in an apartment without mirrors and “reduced her life to photographing her feet.”
“I thought it was an interesting way to approach aging,” Owens said about the countess, who, incidentally, was the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000, which included a terracotta cast of her photogenic limbs.
The 63-year-old designer admitted that some of his colleagues were concerned about him joining OnlyFans, since most of the platform’s content is adult-oriented.
His response?
“I started my career with a photo of me peeing into my own mouth,” he said matter-of-factly, referring to a 2002 photomontage included in the exhibition catalog, along with other images not safe for work. “I mean, this is the most innocent thing I’ve done in my life.”
