Wondering what would happen if one of his own personal heroes, the Bauhaus concretist Marcel Breuer, created clothes out of tulle, Owens made a collection that paradoxically married lightness to architectural weight. The resulting silhouette was something new for him: a strict smock shape that allowed for flares of tulle on either side, like a suppressed tutu. Owens thought of them as frills, and if frilliness was a new notion for him, so too were the textures of the smocks, crimped and honeycombed. Eventually they exploded into floating parachute wings in the back. Pale gold and khaki, baby blue and pink: The color palette was new as well. Hell, even the very idea of a color palette for a Rick Owens collection was radical. And there was overt decoration, in the form of serpentine embroideries, and a finale of looks adorned with sculptural funnels of fabric.