HELMUT LANG FW 2001
I think this image is a perfect example of the brillance of Helmut Lang. If this image did not have a date accompanying it you would never know this look is from a runway show that was presented over ten years ago. It’s not that its a classic look, it was a forward and modern look that still holds both of those atributes today without looking the slightest bit dated. The fit and menswear look on a woman with strong sexy overtones to it blow away that current interpretations of this idea. Not only is this on trend for so much of womenswear now, but it is 11 years predating it. Thank god for Helmut Lang.
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Raf Simons on Margiela’s Third Runway Show
The main people for me when I started to look at fashion were Martin Margiela and Helmut Lang. I also had an obsession with Stephen Sprouse. Historically, Dior and Balenciaga influenced me the most. Nothing in fashion, though, has had more emotional impact on me than Martin Margiela’s third show. It was 1989, and I was an intern for Walter Van Beirendonck. He took me to two shows: this huge Jean Paul Gaultier spectacle, with the girls dressed as nuns and Neneh Cherry sitting on a Thonet chair; and Martin’s show, which was in a playground. They’d asked the kids’ parents for permission to use the playground, and they said, “Yes, but only if our kids can come.” The models appeared in long white clothes, and suddenly the kids started to play with them. It was so moving. Everyone was crying. Me too. Martin is the one who made me decide to do fashion—and when he left fashion, I decided to collect his clothes. I know his collections inside out, so I started to build an archive of them alongside my own.
Read More http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2012/03/raf-simons-designer-obsessions-ss#ixzz1nccdpkqq
chelsea boots (eu sz 43) • helmut lang
£3.20
Damn def one of the better Chelsea boot iterations I’ve seen.
Come back Helmut Lang
