Helmut Lang, 1988 to 1997

[runner]

F/W 03

dip.mak

 

[runner]

F/W 1986

dip.mak

 

[runner]

F/W 1999

Black cashmere sweater; black leather pants; black leather waist belt with pouch.

A minimal set in black. The sweater's collar is like a travelling pillow, and the sleeves are divided into upper and
lower sections, only partly sewn together. The pants have fasteners sewn in on the fronts of the legs, with tapes
above the knees. This clearly shows the tendency in Helmut Lang's designs to create clothes part by part and then
join them together; a tendency that became even more distinct in later collections.
Lang comes from Austria, and presented his first Paris collection in 1986. At the time, he stressed a banality that
contrasted with the excessiveness of avant-garde fashion, and accepted reality of the body rather than seeking an
ideal body. By fusing the radical and the universal, Lang became one of the drivers of 1990s fashion. In 2002, he
made tape clothes such as a part or a fragment of jackets and vests, that could be interpreted either as pieces of
clothes or as accessories. Rather than clothes, it was almost as if he were presenting soon-to-disappear fragments or
vestiges of clothes, draped on the wearers' bodies.

kci

 

[Creative]

I miss him so much. He was such a visionary.

BTW, I remember someone posted many Helmut Lang collections from the nineties in tFS but I can't find them anywhere. Does anyone know where they are?

 

[runner]

" I don't like clothes that scream loudly. they mustn't be safe, and they mustn't be obvious - neither too designery nor too classical. my clothes aren't one thing or the other. it's all about finding a way through those contradictions. " - helmut lang

from harper's bazaar, sep 1995, thanks to softgrey

 

[Phuel]

^^^ ^^^ This is why I still adore his designs to this very day: I was attracted to this vision from the moment I discovered Helmut in 1994, and no one has even come close to the vision he has created.

 

[softgrey]

" I don't like clothes that scream loudly. they mustn't be safe, and they mustn't be obvious - neither too designery nor too classical. my clothes aren't one thing or the other. it's all about finding a way through those contradictions. " - helmut lang

from harper's bazaar, sep 1995, thanks to softgrey

doitashimashite...

 

[runner]

some more from FW1993


my scans

 

[runner]

from FW1993


my scans

 

[runner]

from SS1994


my scan

 

[Creative]

King of Kings.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

Wow thanks for scanning those gems

 

[runner]

^ you're welcome


from SS 1994

my scan

 

[Norden]

I miss the naturalness, creativity and respect that helmut Lang had. It hasn't been replaced since he left. Huge void.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

Anyone has videos of his shows that are not on Youtube ? Really want to see them...

 

[YohjiAddict]

Anyone has videos of his shows that are not on Youtube ? Really want to see them...

F/W 1997 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ood4
F/W 1995 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ot4y
F/W 1988 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25orqi
S/S 1994 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ovhr

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

F/W 1997 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ood4
F/W 1995 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ot4y
F/W 1988 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25orqi
S/S 1994 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ovhr

Thank you ! I would really like to see SS04, FW03, SS03 and FW99 which are my favorite collections but no videos to be found...

 

[YohjiAddict]

Thank you ! I would really like to see SS04, FW03, SS03 and FW99 which are my favorite collections but no videos to be found...

Those are also my favorite ones, Melanie Ward did such incredible womenswear for Helmut...In moments like this I wish Tim Blanks was still doing his Throwback Thursdays at Vogue.com, CN just has the most incredible archive.

 

[runner]

FW1993, another set


my scans

 

[softgrey]

looks better than ever!...

thx for posting runner...
inspiring...
makes me want to wear my wht snkrs...