LONG ON LANG: What’s Helmut Lang up to these days? Is he making a play to come back to fashion? The former designer answers those questions in an interview with Tim Blanks in the new issue of Fantastic Man magazine, to hit newsstands Oct. 12. Lang, who recently has issued a series of enigmatic contributions in magazines from Self Service to Achtung, graces the cover of the book bare-chested and clutching a rooster in front of his Long Island abode, in a photo by Bruce Weber. Though he says little of the experience of selling control of his company to Prada and his subsequent departure from fashion, Lang does says he’s “perfectly happy” in his new life of concentrating on his ambiguous art projects, which he has grouped under the umbrella of a new company, called HL-art. As for fashion, he doesn’t seem intent on jumping back in the fray. “I think I’m very happy about the decision to change,” he told Blanks. “I think I’m just following up the things I never had time for.”
— Robert Murphy
