Helmut Lang Homme S/s 2005

[Acid]

beautiful boy Karl Lindberg

 

[nqth]

This is still Helmut Lang actually :-) although the color is light and the "overal" is soft:-) I think it is very strong collection.

 

[nqth]

 

[Dior]

BBBBBoyd was on the show~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by PrinceOfCats+Jul 4th, 2004 - 1:57 pm--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (PrinceOfCats @ Jul 4th, 2004 - 1:57 pm)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-kit@Jul 4th, 2004 - 12:14 pm
Wasn't Rifat Ozbek the first to use chicken bones to decorate either side the closure of jackets , some years ago ?

It was part of a ' western ' inspired collection for women .

I've searched Firstview but cannot find it .

KIT

Rifat Ozbek stuck them onto Confederate jackets many moons ago...

And let's not forget Yves Saint Laurent's feather and bead dresses... [/b][/quote]
prince...didn't you say you were 16?...how do you know rifat ozbek...that collection was circa 1990...that would make you 2 at the time... ...

where did you see pictures?...and can you post any?...

 

[Lena]

Originally posted by Acid@Jul 4th, 2004 - 6:16 pm
loving the shades

me too, dare say its the ONLY thing i like from this highly dissapointing Lang collection

 

[LolitaLuxe]

i was expecting much ......more???......but the last looks postd were OK.
not into the femme sweaters.

 

[Lena]

Originally posted by LolitaLuxe@Jul 5th, 2004 - 9:13 am
the last looks postd were OK.
not into the femme sweaters.

i agree, i also hated the knitted looks, too 'Austrian grandmother chic' for me

 

[h_bazaar]

Think this collection lack a certain 'oomph' that i loved about Helmut...

Maybe it's the styling of the show...

 

[nqth]

Here you are :-)

 

[Lena]

thats cute ngth, apart from the obviously ridiculous 'shoes'

 

[nqth]

Originally posted by Lena@Jul 5th, 2004 - 7:24 am
thats cute ngth, apart from the obviously ridiculous 'shoes'

:-)

 

[mikeijames]

very spare and subtly deconstructed as usual, but not as exciting as the collections from a year and a half ago. i have always enjoyed lang most when it seems that he has some itching preoccupation with something that gets expressed in his collections (from scuba to harnesses to cowboys)...i just didn't feel that about this collections although there were quiet moments i loved.

 

[Reece]

um i dont really like it some things are ok.

 

[runner]

Dear, Lang

did you design this collection in good earnest?

 

[Lena]

Helmut Lang Goes Fishing
By Godfrey Deeny
July 05, 2004 @ 12:18 AM - Paris

Part preppy, part posh, a tad subversive and very, very nautical the Helmut Lang collection shown Sunday was an unlikely melange of ideas, but one that produced the best clothes we have seen in Paris so far this season.

For that we should pay thanks to a fisherman Lang met out near his summer compound in the Hamptons, an old man of the sea who turned Helmut on to the key theme of the collection – maritime mode.
"He was a great guy, who gave me an ancient book of knots and I took it from there," Lang told FWD after the show.

Helmut fashioned chunky knots into bulky bracelets, eccentric key chains or triple belts and combined them with forged yachting halyards to create a great new set of accessories. Where other designers feel obliged to load down every second look with weekend bags in crocodile with horn handles or the inevitable nylon and leather briefcase, Lang keeps it subtle, simple and some much newer.

Continuing the naval moment, Helmut made a tuxedo look with a sailor’s bib at the top of the pant, fulfilling a request from actor Bill Murray, who Lang dressed for the Oscars. He also showed cable sweaters, with macramé cut-outs, though more for naughty nocturnal haunts that an evening cruise.

Oddly, for a show inspired by a rustic seafarer, Lang opened with a series of posh preppy looks in seersucker, though cut in his strict Austrian style and a long way from the comfy WASP silhouette with which one traditionally associates this fabric. "I see these for the Stepford Husbands, a movie someone should make," laughed a slim, and tinkling eyed Lang. Word up to Roman Polanski, who sat front row with his wife Emmanuelle Seigneur in the rue des Commines show space in the Marais.

Helmut’s other new accessory was the crocodile clog – which he showed in beige, white and tobacco. Yet in Lang’s hands this quintessentially old hippie icon managed to look slick and seditious.

The aquatic moment continued as swimsuits appeared worn rapper style, peaking several inches above trouser waistlines. And in one wonderfully wacky take, we spotted the swim trunks under see-through plastic painter’s pants.

It’s been two years since he came back to Paris from New York to Paris, yet the city still seems to bring out the joyful in Lang. One surprising look from the master of minimalism summed that up. Late in the show after a vaguely military moment of khakis and US officers’ beige, Lang suddenly sent out a great pair of bulky white pants with a print showing a score of English rural flowers. Does anyone know of travel agent offering Flower Power cruises?

 

[Lena]

Mr. Lang moved away from the dangling straps and erotic gestures that had punctuated his collections, though the fit of his jackets, now in seersucker, had a seductive pull. These appeared with white trousers, swagged with an ambiguous hank of maritime rope, and white clogs, some covered in glossy fur. Very cool, and funny. Shirt sleeves were crunched just above the biceps. But except for a riotous Hamptons flower print on white jeans, the message was tough, impeccable tailoring.

from NYT

 

[faust]

Originally posted by runner@Jul 5th, 2004 - 11:23 pm
Dear, Lang

did you design this collection in good earnest?

my thoughts exactly.

 

[Mr-Dale]

Originally posted by runner@Jul 6th, 2004 - 6:23 am
Dear, Lang

did you design this collection in good earnest?

 

[tott]

Originally posted by Lena@Jul 5th, 2004 - 1:24 pm
thats cute ngth, apart from the obviously ridiculous 'shoes'

Dear, those are the slippers that goes with the knitted 'Austrian grandmother chic' look...