Rick Owens

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fashion designer person

Rick Owens is an American fashion designer renowned for his avant-garde, gothic-influenced aesthetic and influential luxury menswear and womenswear label.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Rick Owens canonical	6
Rick Owens Hunrick	1
Rick Owens Lilies	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10026935 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Rick Owens
Context triple: [CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year, notableWinner, Rick Owens]

A. Alexandr Wang
Alexandr Wang is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of AI data company Scale AI.
B. Demna Gvasalia
Demna Gvasalia is a Georgian fashion designer known for his avant-garde, streetwear-influenced aesthetic and for revitalizing Balenciaga as its creative director.
C. Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer best known as the creative director of Moschino and for his bold, pop-culture-inspired designs.
D. Alexander Wang
Alexander Wang is an American fashion designer known for his edgy, minimalist aesthetic and influential work at his eponymous label and as former creative director of Balenciaga.
E. Thom Browne
Thom Browne is an American fashion designer renowned for his avant-garde, meticulously tailored menswear and his influential eponymous label.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Rick Owens
Target entity description: Rick Owens is an American fashion designer renowned for his avant-garde, gothic-influenced aesthetic and influential luxury menswear and womenswear label.

A. Alexandr Wang
Alexandr Wang is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of AI data company Scale AI.
B. Demna Gvasalia
Demna Gvasalia is a Georgian fashion designer known for his avant-garde, streetwear-influenced aesthetic and for revitalizing Balenciaga as its creative director.
C. Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer best known as the creative director of Moschino and for his bold, pop-culture-inspired designs.
D. Alexander Wang
Alexander Wang is an American fashion designer known for his edgy, minimalist aesthetic and influential work at his eponymous label and as former creative director of Balenciaga.
E. Thom Browne
Thom Browne is an American fashion designer renowned for his avant-garde, meticulously tailored menswear and his influential eponymous label.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fashion designer ⓘ person ⓘ
awardReceived	Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Fashion Design ⓘ linked to: National Design Award for Fashion Design Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Talent ⓘ linked to: CFDA Perry Ellis Award
basedIn	Paris, France ⓘ linked to: Paris
birthName	Richard Saturnino Owens ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Adidas ⓘ Birkenstock ⓘ Converse ⓘ linked to: Converse, Inc. Moncler ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1962-11-18 ⓘ
fashionLabel	DRKSHDW ⓘ Rick Owens ⓘ Rick Owens Hunrick ⓘ linked to: Rick Owens Rick Owens Lilies ⓘ linked to: Rick Owens
fieldOfWork	fashion design ⓘ
firstRunwayShowCity	New York City ⓘ
firstRunwayShowYear	2002 ⓘ
hasBoutiqueIn	London, United Kingdom ⓘ linked to: London, England New York City, United States ⓘ linked to: New York City, New York, United States of America Paris, France ⓘ linked to: Paris Tokyo, Japan ⓘ linked to: Tokyo
hasProductCategory	accessories ⓘ footwear ⓘ furniture ⓘ home objects ⓘ ready-to-wear ⓘ
influencedBy	brutalist architecture ⓘ classical sculpture ⓘ gothic subculture ⓘ punk fashion ⓘ
knownFor	avant-garde fashion ⓘ gothic-influenced aesthetic ⓘ luxury menswear ⓘ luxury womenswear ⓘ
languageOfWork	English ⓘ
launchedLabelInYear	1994 ⓘ
movedTo	Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ linked to: Los Angeles, California, United States of America Paris, France ⓘ linked to: Paris
name	Rick Owens ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Porterville, California, United States ⓘ linked to: Porterville, California
signatureColorPalette	black ⓘ earth tones ⓘ
signatureSilhouette	draped ⓘ elongated ⓘ layered ⓘ
spouse	Michèle Lamy ⓘ
styleDescribedAs	brutalist luxury ⓘ grunge glamour ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year → notableWinner → Rick Owens ⓘ

Gareth Pugh → hasCollaboratedWith → Rick Owens ⓘ

Hunter Schafer → hasModeledFor → Rick Owens ⓘ

Tommy Cash → hasCollaboration → Rick Owens ⓘ

Rick Owens → name → Rick Owens ⓘ

Rick Owens → fashionLabel → Rick Owens ⓘ

Rick Owens → fashionLabel → Rick Owens Lilies ⓘ

linked to: Rick Owens

Rick Owens → fashionLabel → Rick Owens Hunrick ⓘ