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Alternate Worlds at Rick Owens and Off-White

Both Owens and Virgil Abloh-successor Ib Kamara reckoned with the past without drowning in it, writes Tim Blanks.
Off-White Spring/Summer 2023.
Off-White Spring/Summer 2023. (Getty Images)

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Tim Blanks
Tim Blanks

Tim Blanks is Editor-at-Large at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and covers designers, fashion weeks and fashion’s creative class.

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