RICK OWENS AMIS DU CENTRE POMPIDOU

RICK OWENS AMIS DU CENTRE POMPIDOU 17 OCTOBER 2019 WHEN AMIS DU CENTRE POMPIDOU INVITED ME TO DO A PROJECT, I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO DO. I WANTED TO LOOK AT LIVING WORKS OF ART LAYING ON SLABS OF MODERN ART, ABSORBING AND PROJECTING THEMSELVES INTO LEGENDARY WORKS OF ART. THESE LIVING WORKS OF ART WOULD BE CREATORS IN MY LIFE THAT FULLY LIVE WHAT THEY PRESENT. I WOULD ASK MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE, HUN, TO CONSTRUCT 7 DIFFERENT BEDS TO BE POSITIONED THROUGHOUT THE 5TH FLOOR OF THE POMPIDOU AND WOULD INVITE 7 FAVORITE BEAUTIES TO RECLINE ON BEAUTY AND WALLOW IN THE BEAUTY IN FRONT OF THEM: TOMMY CASH I FOUND HIS SONG ‘PUSSY MONEY WEED’ ONLINE AND REACHED OUT ASKING FOR A REMIX TO SOUNDTRACK ONE OF MY MEN’S RUNWAY SHOWS. I MET HIM, AND WAS SEDUCED BY HIS TESTOSTERONE RAP COMING FROM A DEFECTING BOLSHOI DANCER BODY WITH A SOVIET BLEAKNESS UNDERTASTE... HE WALKED MY RUNWAY, WE COLLABORATED ON A KUMU MUSEUM SHOW, AND I GUEST DRONED ON HIS LAST ALBUM… DAVID HOYLE I FIRST DISCOVERED DAVID ONLINE WITH HIS SERIES OF ‘DIVINE DAVID’ VIDEOS FROM THE EARLY 1990’S AND WAS FOREVER A DISCIPLE. HIS ‘DIVINE DAVID’ CHARACTER WAS THE PERFECT BLEND OF OBLIVIOUSLY ELEGANT WIT AND WICKEDNESS, CAMOUFLAGING THE WARM AND OPEN-HEARTED FRIEND I EVENTUALLY CAME TO KNOW. HE HAS SINCE BECOME A CABARET AND THEATRE GRAND DAME, AS WELL AS SCREEN ACTOR AND DIRECTOR OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE PERVY MOVIES, ‘UNCLE DAVID’. CHRISTEENE I FOUND HER SONG ‘FIX MY DICK’ ONLINE AND BEFORE I KNEW IT SHE WAS PISSING ON MY FACE AND FRENCHING MY WIFE IN A VIDEO FOR HER ANAL ANTHEM ‘BUTT MUSCLE’. SHE IS OUR COLLECTIVE FEROCIOUS AND JOYOUS ID ON A RAMPAGE. SHE IS THE NOËL COWARD OF FILTH, LOVING AND OINKY. I WAS THRILLED WHEN SHE MET DAVID HOYLE AND AGREED TO MARRY HIM, SEALING THEIR VOWS ONSTAGE WITH A RIM JOB. KEMBRA I MET KEMBRA THROUGH THE L.A. FETISH/PUNK COMMUNITY IN THE EIGHTIES AND HAVE LONG MARVELED AT THE PRECISION AND FOCUS OF HER MIX OF INNOCENCE, DEFIANT IDEALISM, AND PURSUIT OF A PERSONAL EXPRESSION OF BEAUTY. AS LEAD SINGER OF THE VOLUPTUOUS HORROR OF KAREN BLACK, SHE HAS PROVIDED A MODEL OF SELF-INVENTION AND SELF-REALIZATION TO A GENERATION OF PUNK ROCK KIDS AND HAS FULLY LIVED HER VISION FOR 30 YEARS. SHE HAS PROVIDED AN EXAMPLE OF LIVING LIFE ON YOUR OWN TERMS TO LEGIONS. GLEN MEADMORE ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS FROM L.A., GLENDA HAS BEEN PERFORMING HOMO-METAL COUNTRY MUSIC FOR OVER 30 YEARS. ONE OF MY FONDEST MEMORIES IS OF HIM PERFORMING ONE OF HIS BORN AGAIN GAY CHRISTIAN SONGS THROUGH A MEGAPHONE INTO THE EAR OF A BOUND AND GAGGED GUEST HANGING UPSIDE DOWN FROM THE CEILING OF MISTRESS ANTOINETTE’S HOUSE IN THE CALIFORNIA SAN FERNANDO VALLEY IN THE EARLY NINETIES… I THINK THERE’S A HELMUT NEWTON PHOTO OF IT SOMEWHERE… PRECIOUS EBONY I SAW PRECIOUS EMCEEING AT A VOGUING BALL IN PARIS AND WANTED TO STRIP THE DANCERS AND CROWD AWAY LEAVING JUST HER AND THE BLASTING POWER AND MAGNETISM OF HER VOCALS. I WAS ABLE TO DO JUST THAT WHEN, SHORTLY AFTER, I INVITED HER TO EMCEE OVER A BARE BEAT TO A CROWD BELOW HER WHILE SHE WAS RAISED TO THE RAFTERS OF A WAREHOUSE ON AN INDUSTRIAL CHERRY PICKER DURING MILAN FASHION WEEK. SHE IS NOW BLOSSOMING INTO A REALITY SHOW SUPERSTAR. MOTHER RHEEDA OF THE HOUSE OF LADURÉE THE SAME NIGHT I SAW PRECIOUS AT THE BALL, I SAW MOTHER RHEEDA. NO ONE PERFORMED DIPS AS FEROCIOUSLY AND VIOLENTLY AS SHE DID AND I ACHED TO BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME. SHE HAD A MUSCULAR RECKLESSNESS THAT MADE HER MOVEMENT AS VIRILE AS IT WAS GRACEFUL. I CONTACTED HER AND ASKED HER TO COME GIVE ME PRIVATE LESSONS, CONFIDENT THAT YEARS AT THE GYM WOULD MAKE LESSONS A MERE FORMALITY. NOT AS EASY AS SHE MAKES IT LOOK. WORK IN PROGRESS…