Helmut Lang 風格: clean and precise, supremely simple in silhouette, his aesthetic was not based in the ideas of saleability but rather in a minimalist concept that is far more intellectual and artistic in its connections to a modernist philosophy.
他說:Androgyny is an idea from the past. Women are feminine in many different was. Maybe the biggest achievement of the last years is that there are many more attitudes of being a woman. 90 年代。他打個噴嚏, 時裝界的人都要用紙巾捂鼻子。
It is rare that a designer can create such compelling, provoking, conceptual clothes. These are made for real life, for real people...and often times such reality based collections can be boring and uninspired...but not with Lang.
Helmut Lang has generously donated a collection of his work in fashion from 1997 to 2005 to Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Fashion Museum.
There was a genius quote recently "Alexander Wang.. Isn't that where old Helmut Lang samples go to repopulate?" Too bad that he sold his name to previous founder of Theory/Elie Tahari.