Helmut Lang/Prada drama> update*HL-art

[baklanyc]

Barneys. In turn, where did you see KVA? At Jeffrey?

Yes. Interestingly enough, they also carried Number (N)ine, as well as Missoni. Quite a new selection so far as Jeffrey goes. See my post in the KVA thread for more on Van Assche.

I didn't see any Helmut shoes at Jeffrey...

 

[tricotineacetat]

Barneys. In turn, where did you see KVA? At Jeffrey?

Tricotin, unfortunately I think Tom Ford's motto worked wonders when he ruled in the 90's - it was a much better place to create. Now, everyone and their mother has the money (or credit cards) but not the taste, so to jeans and tshirts they go. At least this is the case in the US.

Faust, you might be true that there are a lot of people that are just buying the more accessible part of designer´s collections - in this case, small accessories, t-shirts, jeans. I doubt though that the so-called "trendy" customer shops at Helmut Lang - aren´t those people you are talking of going for "designer jeans" and trendy labels such as Seven, Paperdenim, Juicy Couture, instead of avant garde designer´s apparel? We do have this phenomenon in Germany, too (due to magazines like "INstyle"), so don´t regard this as a US-only taste ...

 

[JuiceMajor]

PITT SHRUGS OFF PRADA

NOT everybody wants to pose for Miuccia Prada. Michael Pitt, the American actor who currently stars as a Kurt Cobain character in Gus Van Sant's Last Days, decided not to take up an offer to become the new face of Miu Miu, according to PAGESIX.COM. Prada would no doubt have paid him plenty to pose for the campaign, which currently stars Selma Blair, but Pitt apparently didn't like what it could do to his image. The grungy actor is also the lead singer of a rock band, Pagoda.

 

[faust]

Faust, you might be true that there are a lot of people that are just buying the more accessible part of designer´s collections - in this case, small accessories, t-shirts, jeans. I doubt though that the so-called "trendy" customer shops at Helmut Lang - aren´t those people you are talking of going for "designer jeans" and trendy labels such as Seven, Paperdenim, Juicy Couture, instead of avant garde designer´s apparel? We do have this phenomenon in Germany, too (due to magazines like "INstyle"), so don´t regard this as a US-only taste ...

Yeah. I thought we were talking public in general? I'm thinking that because the masses want the aforementioned products, and Prada IS a mass-market brand (not in prices, but in the business model of gaining market shair by any means), their pushing jeans/tshirts by HL is natural. It is a shame in general. I was just thinking about this while looking at Bruno Pieters pictures that runners posted. They are gorgeous, but from what I've seen in the only store in NEW YORK CITY (nonetheless) there is no way in hell they will buy it. It'll be same basic stuff. SAD. But can we blame the stores if they can't sell the fashion-forward pieces?

 

[baklanyc]

Yeah. I thought we were talking public in general? I'm thinking that because the masses want the aforementioned products, and Prada IS a mass-market brand (not in prices, but in the business model of gaining market shair by any means), their pushing jeans/tshirts by HL is natural. It is a shame in general. I was just thinking about this while looking at Bruno Pieters pictures that runners posted. They are gorgeous, but from what I've seen in the only store in NEW YORK CITY (nonetheless) there is no way in hell they will buy it. It'll be same basic stuff. SAD. But can we blame the stores if they can't sell the fashion-forward pieces?

So true. I post on a non-fashion site, and they could NOT understand the concept of wearing a hooodie with a blazer/suit, which is SOOOO old in fashion circles it's pretty much out, yet to them it was heinous. Sometimes we take fashion & styles for granted forgetting that the rest of the US (let alone the many areas of the planet) are nowhere near the level of understanding/interest that we share here on TFS.

 

[JuiceMajor]

Come across Helmut Lang FW2005 collection in Arena UK and it looks like something designed by Jil Sander's team.

 

[Rudolf.Carnap]

That's good. I've seen some real nice striped shirts that I'd like to get.

 

[JuiceMajor]

His stuff is on sale now in Harrods....

 

[rach2jlc]

Everytime this thread gets bumped up again, my heart always starts racing in anticipation that I'm going to read an update that Helmut is back.

But...nothing yet. Only sales at Harrod's (which are good, don't get me wrong...)

John

 

[tricotineacetat]

His stuff is on sale now in Harrods....

WHAT?! They are already putting F/W 2005 on discount - How worse is that?!

 

[Johnny]

WHAT?! They are already putting F/W 2005 on discount - How worse is that?!

I don't think that's what he meant - just that it was being sold, not "in the sale" as such.

 

[rach2jlc]

HL-Art

MFFashion 057, mercoledì, 23 marzo 2005



Helmut Lang riparte da NY

Il designer austriaco al lavoro per HL-art



Il divorzio con Helmut Lang (nella foto a sinistra) è avvenuto un paio di mesi fa (vedere MFF del 25 gennaio 2005), quando il designer aveva lasciato la direzione creativa della maison, che era passata al 100% sotto il gruppo Prada nell'ottobre del 2004. Ma adesso cosa sta facendo Helmut Lang senza la sua fashion house? Nella sua era post-Prada, lo stilista si sta organizzando. È in fase di costituzione HL-art: si tratta del nuovo studio design che il creatore austriaco sta costituendo a Soho insieme con due suoi assistenti. Lo scopo? Valutare nuovi progetti. (riproduzione riservata)

Came across this tidbit online. If anybody wants to do a full translation, feel free, but it basically just says that the break between his eponymous label and Prada is complete, and that he's working on plans and drafts of HL-art with two of his Soho assistants.

Not too much new information, of course, but just a further support that HELMUT WILL BE BACK, possibly soon, especially since this article was dated back in March!

John

 

[Multitudes]

MFFashion 057, mercoledì, 23 marzo 2005



Helmut Lang riparte da NY

Il designer austriaco al lavoro per HL-art



Il divorzio con Helmut Lang (nella foto a sinistra) è avvenuto un paio di mesi fa (vedere MFF del 25 gennaio 2005), quando il designer aveva lasciato la direzione creativa della maison, che era passata al 100% sotto il gruppo Prada nell'ottobre del 2004. Ma adesso cosa sta facendo Helmut Lang senza la sua fashion house? Nella sua era post-Prada, lo stilista si sta organizzando. È in fase di costituzione HL-art: si tratta del nuovo studio design che il creatore austriaco sta costituendo a Soho insieme con due suoi assistenti. Lo scopo? Valutare nuovi progetti. (riproduzione riservata)

Came across this tidbit online. If anybody wants to do a full translation, feel free, but it basically just says that the break between his eponymous label and Prada is complete, and that he's working on plans and drafts of HL-art with two of his Soho assistants.

Not too much new information, of course, but just a further support that HELMUT WILL BE BACK, possibly soon, especially since this article was dated back in March!

John

I really hope you are right that helmut Lang is coming back...
For me he is one of the most important mens designers, we have, along side Dior and Vivienne Westwood, so to see him disappear I would cry my self to sleep.... I have tank top pieces by helmut that I couldn't live with out...

 

[Afreekan]

I was looking at the men's schedule for Paris on firstview.com and I see that they have Helmut Lang in the schedule. Is there something I don't know?

 

[rach2jlc]

I think you may have been looking at the fall/winter 2005 schedule on firstview. The one for this year is further down that list. As for that show, it was the presentation done by the design team in Helmut's absense.

I hope I'm wrong, because I'd be the first in line to see a new Helmut presentation, but since Helmut is out at his eponymous brand, it wouldn't be designed by him.

John

 

[andrew]

Don't get my hopes up like this...

 

[Multitudes]

Yes.. this is to much for my fragile heart to handle

 

[Afreekan]

Sorry guys. My heart was racing too

 

[bearbrick]

please do not mention helmut lang

he created a scent - limited edition, as they always are - which dd not smell of anything AT all !!!.......not the cologne for me or women......not the cuiron either....it was a limited edition nonscent.....

how did he get away with that ..??....was i the only sucker to have bought that scent..??

 

[Lena]

^ did you really got it?

i really miss HL, i never knew i like him so much..