![]() Tyrone was just eight when he announced to his family that he wanted to be a fashion designer. He and his older brother, Ryder Jack, grew up in a close-knit Jewish family with their father, Victor, a film producer, and their mother, Vered, a hairdresser. “It was my first one, and making sure I didn’t walk off the stage because there was so much fog was a job in itself.”įor a young Susman growing up in Melbourne, the Paris fashion scene was a distant dream. “That was just the most surreal experience,” he says now. Second out through the billowing, dyed smoke, after Estonian rapper Tommy Cash, Susman wore voluminous black combat pants and a deconstructed white tank top that exposed half his ripped torso. Susman, who has opened every Rick Owens men’s show since spring/summer 2020, had his first taste of the designer’s runway at the Babel spring/summer 2019 men’s show. The designer’s wife and longtime business partner, Michèle Lamy, is a striking French woman in her late seventies with gold-and diamond-encrusted teeth, Berber-inspired tattoos and stained-black fingers, while the alien-like aesthetic of Welsh makeup artist Salvia and the Canadian creative duo Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, aka Fecal Matter, have permeated Owens’ runway shows and campaigns. Susman’s appearance is perhaps more user-friendly than Owens’ fans have come to expect. Nicknamed fashion’s Lord of Darkness, Owens is renowned for his rock’n’roll-tinged goth-luxe collections and for having some of the most spectacular runway shows in the business. ![]() Wearing head-to-toe Rick Owens - a mega-shouldered black jacket and shirt unbuttoned to the waist, skinny black trousers and a pair of the designer’s signature towering Kiss platform boots - it was the first trip home in several years for the 32-year old Melburnian, who now lives in Paris as muse, model, design assistant and protégé to American designer Rick Owens. LOOKING LIKE A CROSS between a young David Lee Roth and Ziggy Stardust, Tyrone Dylan Susman cut quite a figure at the opening gala for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Chanel exhibition in December. They were glorious, so it goes without saying, we'll take it.Australian model and aspiring designer Tyrone Dylan Susman is achieving his childhood dreams with Rick Owens | ALL PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON EELES These are the women, take it or leave it, he seemed to say. Owens never broke down and offered 'real' models as a counterpoint to his guest dancers. ![]() Even with the African beats, the women sported swathes of solid hues: khaki, black and white, rather than riots of patterned cloth. Everyone's eyes may have been glued to these girls' moves, but it was hard not to notice that the clothes looked great, too.ĭraped tops, leather vests, tunics and knit shorts were all done the Owens way: sportswear wrapped to regal heights. They came onto the stage stomping their feet, beating their chests, snarling their lips and growling like wild, wonderful beasts, before launching into a 15-minute choreographed tribal dance that electrified the jaded fashion audience. Not only did the women - members of various American step dance crews - not adhere to Paris' typical model look, they didn't act like them either. The controversy over whether or not fashion designers embrace enough diversity in their model castings was blown to bits at Rick Owens, where the American designer featured a throng of real woman - ethnically diverse with shapely curves.
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