11/11/2022 0 Comments Shoe dazzle![]() ![]() Owens is increasingly making such points about responsible production.) (The tulle, by the way, was made from Econyl, using recycled waste materials from oceans and landfills. “It’s such a cheap trick, it’s just a pile of tulle but it’s a pile of tulle coming from me, and that’s fine.” Owens has come to appreciate the power he wields as one of the industry’s truly independent megasuccess stories. He chuckled as he watched Danielle Leavitt shooting the dresses backstage, but even he sounded impressed. A fusion of camp and awe fuelled Scarlett O’Hara-like explosions of tulle - in fuchsia, no less - which claimed space like no Owens creation has ever done before. That sense of primal, almost alien grandeur permeated a collection which elevated the extraordinary Haute Hollywoodisms of winter. He talked about lying in the dirt and gazing down upon the Valley of the Kings, a place which was, is, and ever will be beyond modern human ken. He loves the vastness, the timelessness and, at the same time, the curiously immediate physicality of Ancient Egypt. Civilisations have risen and fallen for aeons in Egypt, and something has always survived. Like his men’s spring collection, this one was called Edfu, after an ancient temple of the West Bank of the Nile which he has visited several times. ![]() In part, they are his way of dealing with the current collapse of all we have lackadaisically held dear in our own world. Worlds ancient beyond all comprehension were clearly on Owens’s mind (fruit roll-ups aside). “Like gelatinous fruit roll-ups,” Owens, never one to dodge a leftfield reference, said gleefully. SHOE DAZZLE FULLFull grain cowhides (collected as a waste product from the food industry) had been tanned with natural glycerin, which filled the pores and loaned the leather a quite bizarre translucence. In fact, Owens cycled back through untold millennia to a 700 million-year-old jellyfish, which he compared to the texture of vampishly gorgeous leather dresses. He loves it, and Rick thinks, “Wait! There’s a whole generation for whom this is all new, and I can kind of recycle so much stuff.” He’s 60, he’s been doing this for a while, he’s soundtracking Siouxsie: is it all going to feel really old? Then he plays “Dazzle” for his young stylist/sounding board Tyrone Sussman, who has never heard the song. Then he heard Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1984 hit “Dazzle,” with an ebbing and flowing string section that sounded like an extension of the Mahler symphony. He didn’t want a retread of Winter’s emotion-drenched tour de force. The most enjoyable part of the job was the awesome discount, and the company culture.PARIS - Rick Owens couldn’t use Mahler on his soundtrack again. In any situation where the call was becoming too much to handle, the shift supervisor would take over the call. Luckily, we were well-trained to end the call on a happy note. ![]() Some people were just plain nasty and treated me as if I personally robbed them. The hardest part of the job is when the VIP charges would go through at the beginning of the month, and people would call in to dispute the charges. The office environment was amazing! Everyone really supported each other, and we would have each other's backs after extremely stressful calls. I also learned a lot about shoe-construction and styling. ![]() SHOE DAZZLE HOW TOI learned a lot about customer service and how to de-escalate situations with callers. Assisting customers with first order Fashion consulting.Providing refunds/exchanges/store-credits.Retaining or handling the cancellations of VIP accounts.Answering and resolving at least 65 calls per day.Arriving at least 5 mins prior to shift to start-up computer and check emails.A typical day at ShoeDazzle consisted of: ![]()
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