Rick Owens wants to open an OnlyFans account

It’s well known that selling feet pics online is the fastest way to make money nowadays. But there’s someone who wants to elevate OnlyFans’ new culture into an artistic project. For example, Rick Owens, eternal provocateur of fashion, said yesterday that he’s considering opening an OnlyFans account entirely dedicated to his feet. The announcement, made with his usual nonchalance during a recent interview with WWD, comes right on the eve of the opening of his retrospective at the Palais Galliera, Paris’ fashion museum, which — staying in fetish territory — opens with a hyper-realistic statue of Owens urinating on a pedestal like a fountain. While the exhibition retraces his most legendary creations and his nonconformist career, Owens is clearly already looking ahead, choosing a more intimate and, in his way, revolutionary form of expression. The idea, however, didn’t come to him from the recent OnlyFans boom, which nss magazine documented in its recent Digital Cover Future Porn, but from the story of the Countess of Castiglione, a famous figure from the Napoleonic era (in Italy, still remembered through popular folk songs) who, after locking herself away in a mirrorless home, refused to be photographed — feet excluded.

Although the choice of OnlyFans may seem surprising, given it’s a platform where self-produced pornographic content is bought and sold, for Rick Owens, feet pics aren’t all that scandalous. “I started my career with a photo of me peeing in my own mouth,” he bluntly told WWD, referring to a famous 2002 photomontage also included in the exhibition catalog. “This is the most innocent thing I’ve ever done.” For Owens, transgression is not shock for shock’s sake, but a political act: “I’ll keep transgressing until the day I die, because it’s my form of protest,” he stated. “It’s my response to the rigid moralism and judgment I see in the world. It’s my way of saying: ‘Lighten up, don’t take it all so seriously.’ A little refined wickedness is elegant.” After all, Owens has often used his own body as an extension of his creative message, walking shirtless on runways or turning statues and replicas of himself into fetish-inspired furniture pieces. If anything, we could almost define Owens’ (potential) OnlyFans account as a provocative reflection on aging in an industry obsessed with youth.