RICK OWENS (Italy) Cashmere, Tricot Knit, €900

RICK OWENS (Italy) Cashmere, Tricot Knit, €900 SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos This Italian-made women’s open-front knit cardigan by Rick Owens exemplifies a post-structuralist approach to knitwear, wherein asymmetry, chromatic depth, and intentional erosion of finish subvert conventional sartorial logic to establish a grammar of form rooted in dissolution rather than definition. Composed from a dry-hand viscose blend that shifts seamlessly between flat-knit and ribbed zones, the textile behaves not merely as surface but as topological architecture—actively modulating tension and density across the garment’s body. These knit transitions flank the torso and collapse into a raw-edged hem that appears less finished than suspended, a studied unraveling that eschews finality. The garment thus presents not as a resolved silhouette but as a spatial gesture in flux, echoing the deformative philosophies of Geoffrey B. Small and Y’s by Yohji Yamamoto, where elongation, layering, and garment ambiguity dismantle the fixed boundaries of tailoring. The cardigan’s elongated sleeves and relaxed shoulder slope generate a volume-driven silhouette governed not by fit but by spatial logic, reinforcing a design strategy similarly employed by Ann Demeulemeester and Hussein Chalayan, where the body is reframed through mutable forms and architectural drape.