Rick Owens

Sparrow is an early pre-runway womenswear presentation that anchors the first visible Rick Owens vocabulary before the Paris runway spine settles. Available documentation supports a conservative reading: washed leather, jersey, asymmetrical layering and a lengthened line are already present as foundations, but detailed staging and garment evidence remain thinner than in later seasons. Within the chronology, it functions as the starting point for the jacket-and-drape system rather than as a standalone breakthrough. It is better read as a foundational early presentation than as a fully documented signature moment.