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Rick Owens Spring 2021 Had Cotton Candy Thigh-High Platforms — and Matching Face Masks

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Rick Owens loves a platform. His signature boots, with a formidable square toe metal grill and oversized grommets, have walked his dystopian runways since the the fall ’19 season, and he’s made them part of every collection since then. They’ve also developed a fashion-cult following , and the designer often wears the towering footwear himself. For spring ’21, the usually dark Owens went a little lighter on the footwear — at least in color. The platforms were once again there in all their post-apocalyptic glory , but this time they came mostly in cotton candy or bubblegum pink hue, along with a bright candy-apple red (and a very-Rick slick black). The designer also took the boot up a few notches by extending them up over the thigh, with rectangular tabs reaching the hips of the models who wore them. Pink thigh-high platforms at Rick Owens spring ’21. CREDIT: Courtesy of Rick Owens While most other designers so far have avoided showing face masks for spring ’21, neither on their