Rick Owens is Opening an OnlyFans Account for His Feet

FEET FIRST: By his own admission, Rick Owens “will be doing transgression till the day I die, because that is my protest,” he told WWD recently. “It is a response to the prissy moralism and judgment that I see in the world. It is my way of saying, ‘Lighten up, don’t take it all so seriously.’ A little bit of wicked fun is elegant.”

The designer made that statement during an interview to discuss his retrospective exhibition opening to the public Thursday at the Palais Galliera fashion museum in Paris.

He also casually mentioned that he’s opening an OnlyFans account based on his feet.

He said he was inspired by the Countess of Castiglione, an Italian aristocrat from the 18th century who commissioned hundreds of photos of herself until her declining years, when she shuttered herself in a mirror-less apartment and “reduced her life to photographing her feet.”

“I thought it was an interesting way of addressing aging,” Owens said of the Countess, incidentally the subject of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000 that included a terracotta cast of her photogenic extremities.

The 63-year-old designer confessed that his colleagues were concerned about him aligning himself with OnlyFans, given that most of its content is explicit adult content.

His retort?

“I’m like, I started my career with a picture of me p—-ing into my mouth,” he said matter-of-factly, referring to a photo montage from 2002 that is included in the exhibition catalog, along with other NSFW imagery. “I mean, this is the most innocent thing I’ve ever done.”