Rick Owens is an independent company.

American luxury fashion brand founded in Los Angeles, California in 1994 by designer Richard Saturnino Owens, born in Porterville, California in 1962, who taught himself pattern-cutting after dropping out of Otis College of Art and Design and spent years cutting patterns for copies of designer clothing before launching his own label. Rick Owens built his identity around a darkly glamorous, avant-garde aesthetic characterised by deconstructed silhouettes, draped and asymmetric cuts, a predominantly black and alabaster palette, and a fusion of gothic, brutalist, and post-apocalyptic references. International recognition came in 2001 when Kate Moss was photographed by Corinne Day wearing one of his leather jackets for Vogue Paris; Anna Wintour subsequently sponsored his debut runway at New York Fashion Week in 2002. Owens relocated from Los Angeles to Paris in 2003, establishing his atelier and home in a historic building previously used by French President François Mitterrand, and has shown at Paris Fashion Week since. He and his partner Michèle Lamy co-founded Owenscorp in 2004 as their holding company. Rick Owens maintains 100% ownership with no outside investors, one of the few luxury houses of its scale to remain completely independent. Annual revenues are estimated to exceed €150 million. The brand operates diffusion lines including DRKSHDW, Rick Owens Lilies, and Hunrickowens, as well as a furniture line.