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"FacebookPinterest\n\nGQ: Why aren&amp;#39;t you home working?\n\n Rick Owens: I&amp;#39;m done. [laughs]\n\nGQ: You&amp;#39;re actually one of the few guys who manages to get it all done ahead of time, right?\n\n RO: You know, I&amp;#39;m 50. After ten years of doing this, you&amp;#39;ve got to have your shit together a little bit. And, I mean, I&amp;#39;m not saying it&amp;#39;s perfect, but I&amp;#39;ve done the best I can, and now I have to let it go.\n\nGQ: When you get dressed in the morning, do you have a vision of what you&amp;#39;re going to wear that day?\n\n RO: Yeah, I do. Because I have twenty of the same thing, I wear the same outfit every single day. I can&amp;#39;t imagine having to choose clothes in the morning. It would drive me crazy. I mean, I found one thing I like and then I probably have twenty of it. I change it a little bit every year, maybe, but it&amp;#39;s basically the same thing. It&amp;#39;s been the same thing for a long time. You know, if it&amp;#39;s good enough for Mr. [Azzedine] Ala\u00EFa, it&amp;#39;s good enough for me.\n\nGQ: Is there a sentimental piece of clothing in your home, something from when you were a young boy?\n\n RO: There&amp;#39;s a monkey coat, a monkey fur coat that I used to wear in my younger days that my wife Michele [Lamy] wears now, that I like to see. That&amp;#39;s about the only thing that&amp;#39;s sentimental that I&amp;#39;ve had for a long, long time. It&amp;#39;s a beautiful monkey fur coat with kind of big shoulders. I&amp;#39;m not really as flamboyant as I used to be, so I don&amp;#39;t, I don&amp;#39;t wear\u2026\n\nGQ: In high school, did you have a killer piece of clothing you had then?\n\n RO: High school\u2026you know, that was a long time ago, and I don&amp;#39;t really remember it fondly, so I probably didn&amp;#39;t. I remember liking not wearing shoes for a long time.\n\nGQ: Really?\n\n RO: Yeah, I remember that the coolest thing was never to wear shoes anywhere.\n\nGQ: So were you like Spicoli at that point?\n\n RO: Well, not as good-looking, I don&amp;#39;t think, but I&amp;#39;d like to have been. I think I was aiming for that.\n\nGQ: What inspires you most?\n\n RO: Architecture.\n\nGQ: Anything specifically these days?\n\n RO: It&amp;#39;s not contemporary. I mean, I like vintage things because I like seeing a body of work. There are people that like contemporary art and people that like old art, and I like old art. Contemporary art I enjoy looking at, but I can&amp;#39;t really invest emotionally in something that I don&amp;#39;t feel is a finished story, and when people get excited about modern art I feel like there&amp;#39;s an element of gambling and status involved. I like seeing something done. The old spectrum of somebody&amp;#39;s body of work, I love that.\n\nI like art from the thirties a lot. The thirties and twenties. I mean, if I&amp;#39;m talking about architecture, I like Robert Mallet-Stevens. I like\u2014who&amp;#39;s that one who just died, the one who just died who did\u2014no, Le Corbusier did Brasilia, right?\n\nGQ: No, that was the guy who&amp;#39;s 101 who just died. And he did the Brasilia thing.\n\n RO: And he lived in Rio de Janeiro. Why can&amp;#39;t we remember?\n\nGQ: Why can&amp;#39;t we? Because we&amp;#39;re both 50 years old; we get old [laughs].\n\n RO: This is what happens. [Ed Note: Oscar Niemeyer is the architect in question.]\n\nGQ: If you had to pick a song that defines you, do you have one?\n\n RO: Wagner. It would be Schmerzen, one of the Wesendonck Lieder from Wagner, and that&amp;#39;s what I played in my last women&amp;#39;s show. I finally used it in a show. And that&amp;#39;s been an important song to me since I was young. So that&amp;#39;s the song that would define me.\n\nGQ: How did it become important to you?\n\n RO: When I was young, it swept me away and it made me think about something bigger than where I was.\n\nGQ: What would you tell a man is the key to finding or discovering his personal style?\n\n RO: I have no idea. Maybe it&amp;#39;s not that important. Maybe personal style really isn&amp;#39;t that important. If it&amp;#39;s not a priority for you and you haven&amp;#39;t found it already, then go think about something else. Style isn&amp;#39;t everything."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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