HuffPost WATCH: The Coolest Thing You’ll Ever See At Fashion Week Brown girls literally stepped out on the runway in Paris for Rick Owens’ Spring 2014 RTW show, in what is perhaps the biggest celebration of racial and body diversity in any of the Fashion Week presentations this season. As the discussion about diversity…

Essence Magazine DESIGNER RICK OWENS RECRUITS STEPPING TROUPES TO PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF CONVENTIONAL FASHION AND BEAUTY. Rick Owens, an American designer based in Paris wanted to give Parisians a taste of the American culture with his Spring 2014 runway presentation yesterday. Mission accomplished! The designer recruited fourty steppers (predominantly…

LOS ANGELES TIMES Group therapy session? Wake-up call? Just a darn good show? Or maybe all three. But one thing is for sure, nobody will soon forget Rick Owens’ spring 2014 runway show. The California-raised, Paris-based designer recruited step dancers from college sororities all over the U.S., including Maryland, Washington,…

GRIT POWER AT RICK OWENS SPRING 2014 LeeAnét Noble, stepper and choreographer for Rick Owens’ standout spring/summer 2014 presentation, tells us about the show in her own words. “Rick was inspired by the intensity of stepping as an art form. I got the call last April that he wanted 40 steppers. Half…

Washington – Les pieds frappent le sol en cadence. Les danseuses claquent leurs mains et leurs cuisses en serrant les dents. Le stepping est une danse qui plonge au coeur de l’histoire noire américaine et secoue depuis un an le monde de la mode. Une de ses représentantes, LeeAnet Noble,…

So this just happened: Rick Owens’ Paris Fashion Week models stormed the runway—literally. According to Los Angeles Times fashion critic Booth Moore (@booth1), step dancers were recruited from U.S. sororities for the show. And these fierce “models” are not your average waifs. The strong and rhythmically talented crew made fashion history by adding oomph…

Meet the Choreographer Behind Rick Owens’ Shocking Step Show Just in case you haven’t checked your Twitter feed orELLE.com’s breaking Paris Fashion Week coverage, here’s the big news from the City of Light: Rick Owens broke the fashion mold yesterday by taking over the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy—a multi-level…

Les défilés les plus marquants de la décennie Rick Owens has never done anything like everyone else and likes nothing better than to shake up fashion. So for his spring-summer 2014 show, the American designer called on choreographers Lauretta Malloy and LeeAnet Noble, as well as 40 dancers from American sororities. They…

The Most Important Collections of the 2010 Rick Owens Spring 2014 Rick Owens called his Spring 2014 show “Vicious.” It began not with the click of a wedge boot on concrete, as Owens’s shows so often did, but with the slam of a sneaker against a metal staircase erected in the basement…

Leeanet Noble A Pistol Without A Trigger LeeAnet Noble, daughter of performing artist and actress Lauretta Malloy, learned how to dance asa kid in an unlikely place: the knockabout streets of Cleveland. As she grew up, Noble immersed herself in the arts, joining a touring tap company and, later, a…