RICK OWENS SS26 TEMPLE BLIXA CARGO BOMBER 4275 BONOTTO

$4,275. That is the retail price for the Blixa Cargo Bomber. The fabric was woven on machines that predate the Korean War, in a mill in northeastern Italy that has been operated by the same family for four generations. The PALS webbing on the back panel, the shoulders, and the upper left arm is a modular attachment system originally designed for soldiers. Rick Owens moved it to a hip length bomber jacket and put it online. This is the Temple Bonotto capsule for SS26, available now at rickowens.eu. The campaign shows Damian in the full Bonotto build: Blixa Cargo Bomber, Cargo Geth Shorts, and the can and cigarette pocket attachments clipped into the PALS grid. ## $4,275 and a Mill That Has Not Changed Its Looms Since 1950 Bonotto is a textile mill in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, situated at the base of the Prealps near Molvena. Founded in 1912, currently in its fourth generation of family ownership. The looms it uses are vintage shuttle looms from the 1950s, a manufacturing technology largely replaced by projectile and rapier looms in the following decades. Shuttle looms are slower and more expensive to operate, but they produce a selvedge edge and a fabric with a different hand and drape than anything made on a modern machine. The Bonotto canvas Owens used for this capsule is a medium weight cotton with a dry hand feel and minimal finishing. Rick Owens selected it for what it does not do: it does not shine, it does not drape softly, it does not mimic a technical textile. It reads as raw material because the processing stopped before it was smoothed out. The visible canvas structure and the dry surface are the point of the fabric, not a concession to it. ## PALS Webbing Is a Military Standard. Rick Owens Put It on Cargo Shorts. PALS stands for Pouch Attachment Ladder System. The United States military standardized it in 1999 as part of the MOLLE load bearing equipment specification. It is a grid of woven nylon straps spaced one inch apart horizontally and 1.5 inches apart vertically, designed to accept standardized pouches and attachments. The entire point of the system is modular configuration: a soldier adds or removes pockets depending on the mission requirements. Owens applied the PALS grid to the Blixa Cargo Bomber across the back panel, the front harness straps, the upper left arm, and the lower front body. He also made two proprietary attachments for the SS26 capsule: a can pocket and a cigarette pocket, both compatible with the PALS grid. The Cargo Geth Shorts carry the same hardware logic at a lower price point, completing the outfit as a single argument rather than two separate purchases. ## The Olvia Pieces and the Temple Pieces Speak Two Languages in the Same Season Finally Offline covered the [SS26 Olvia release that went online May 20](/quick/rick-owens-olvia-ss26-cantilever-sock-a-line-bias-skirt-pillow-griffin-bag-online-2026-m4r7k2np): the cupro satin pieces, the cantilever sock, the bias skirt, the Pillow Griffin bag in lambskin. Olvia is the soft side of SS26, the draped and liquid vocabulary. Bonotto is the hard side: canvas, cargo construction, military webbing, and dry finishes that do not give. Owens runs this kind of material argument across capsules within a single season deliberately. The difference between Olvia and Bonotto is not just textile. It is intention. The Olvia pieces read as finished sculpture. The Bonotto pieces read as working equipment that happens to cost $4,275 for the bomber. The avant garde tailoring in [Rei Kawakubo's SS26 Comme des Garçons Homme Plus work from last week](/quick/comme-des-garcons-homme-plus-ss26-not-suits-but-suits-c9k3m7rx) reached for theatrical disruption. Owens reaches for functional architecture that does not need to explain itself. ## 1912, Molvena, Veneto. The Material Argument Is Already Won. The Blixa name runs consistently across SS26 Bonotto outerwear. The Geth cut appears in the trousers and shorts. The PALS system ties the attachments across both pieces. It is a capsule with its own internal grammar: not a series of pieces that happen to share a season tag, but a complete outfit argument built from one mill's fabric and one military webbing standard. A mill founded 1912 weaving on 1950s shuttle looms to produce fabric for a 2026 bomber jacket at $4,275 retail is a specific statement about what slow production means when the brand can make it a selling point rather than an apology. Bonotto cannot make faster fabric. The machine is the argument.