Overview

• The retrospective opened at Musée Palais Galliera in June 2025 with over 100 outfits spanning Owens’s three-decade career.
• The exhibition’s title and installations draw from Owens’s musical inspirations, notably the Sisters of Mercy song that inspired its name.
• Visitors hear Owens’s French and English readings from Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against Nature and explore a recreated 1990s bedroom he shared with Michèle Lamy.
• Owens previewed the show’s theatrical ambition at his Spring/Summer 2026 runway in Palais de Tokyo by having models walk across the museum’s fountain.
• The show extends beyond fashion to include Owens’s Brutalist furniture collaborations and sequin-covered statues installed on the museum’s façade.