Rick: The Brutal Dark Lord of Fashion
painting funeeeee, who did this???
The History of a Queendom
Design-house Blunders By Image
The "Borscht-Bratwurst" Accord
100
Rick’s parents were so strict that he wasn't allowed to watch television until he was 16. What did they force him to do instead to "build character"?
What is listen to Richard Wagner operas and read Aristotle/Confucius.
100
Francisco GOYA "Wait till you've been anointed"
(Aguarda que te unten)
(1797-1798)
100
This 77-acre "planned community" within Sunnyside, built between 1924 and 1928, was inspired by the English Garden City movement and is now a National Historic District.
Where is Sunnyside Gardens
100
2018
Gucci
100
This language, essentially a fusion of Hebrew and High German, traveled from Germany to Russia and back to Israel.
Yiddish
200
At the SS16 'Cyclops' show, Owens took 'carrying your weight' literally by having models walk the runway wearing these special, surely heavy accessories
What are other models (or 'human backpacks')?
200
Pieter Brueghel the Younger(Brussels 1564/65 – 1637/38 Antwerp)
200
This salt marsh is the only National Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. accessible by subway.
Where is Jamaica Bay
200
2017
Saint Laurent (Fall/Winter 2017) The Blunder: Called the "Anya 100 Patch Pump," ------- $2,600 health hazard.
200
This country was the first to legally recognize Israel in 1948, purely because its "Little Squirt" of a leader hoped they would kick the British out of the Middle East.
What is the USSR?
Little squirt is what Truman called Stalin
300
Rick met his wife Michèle Lamy when he applied for a job at her sportswear company. What was the "complication" regarding their initial romance?
Rick was actually dating Michèle’s boyfriend at the time. He didn't just get the job: he got the girl and the guy’s boyfriend. Efficiency.
300
1938
"Angry Dog"
Edvard Munch (1938)
300
This Queens landmark is the oldest nursery in the U.S. and provided trees for Central Park.
Where is the Prince Nursery (in Flushing)?
300
2023
Viktor & Rolf
300
While stationed in Dresden, this KGB operator was less "Double-O-Seven" and more "Double-O-Suds." He reportedly packed on nearly 30 pounds of "Radeberger beer weight" and was so terrified of losing Western luxuries during the Soviet collapse that he famously secured a Miele washing machine to take home, hoping that that if he couldn't save the USSR, he could at least save his whites.
400
How did Rick Owens actually learn the technical skill of pattern-making in Los Angeles?
What is by working for illegal knock-off houses cutting patterns for "bootleg" European designer clothes
400
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
Study of Two Warriors' Heads for the Battle of Anghiari
Leonardo da Vincica. 1504–1505
400
Queens was named in 1683 to honor Catherine of Braganza, the wife of this English King.
Who is King Charles II
400
2016
Thom Browne
(This designer’s beloved dachshund, Hector, became a staple of the brand, eventually being turned into a $2,600 pebble-grain leather handbag)
400
In a move of peak irony Stalin "generously" offered the Jewish people a homeland in this frozen Siberian territory, where the primary neighbors were tigers and mosquitoes.
What is Birobidzhan (or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast)?
500
During the Spring 2016 'Cyclops' show, this long-time muse went rogue by brandishing a 'Kill Angela Merkel' sign; Rick Owens later told the press, 'I punched him when he came offstage.
Who is Jera (or Jera Diarc)
500
(1894)
Le Chat blanc
Pierre Bonnard (1894)
500
Long Island City was its own independent city until this year, when it merged into New York City
When was 1898?
500
1985
Vivienne Westwood
500
This German-born princess became the Empress of Russia and invited thousands of Germans to settle in Russia to "modernize" it.
Who is Catherine the Great?