#016 2011 [Detail] Resin, Pigment, Mixed Media
Helmut Lang + Jenny Holzer
Kate Moss in Helmut Lang, Harper’s Bazaar, November 1996 © Craig McDean : Art + Commerce
Make It Hard, The Fireplace Project
Surrogate Skin (2008)
From establishing his namestake brand in 1986 Helmut Lang introduced unconventional materials into the urban uniform and by repositioning the perspectives of utility and modernity defined the silhouette of the 1990s and early 2000s. He broke away from the runway show-as-spectacle in the height of the 1980s opulence and was the first to ever stream his collection online, redefining how fashion is communicated. ~wikipedia
(Michael and Nicole Colovos now design the line for the Helmut Lang brand)
Since retiring from the fashion world in 2005, Lang has continued his artistic endevors into the world of art with Make it Hard at the Fireplace Project in 2011 where he used 6000 archived clothing pieces from his label, cutting them up and mixed with resin and pigment to create slender pipe like sculptures and collaborating with artists Jenny Holzer and Louise Bourgeois.
His recent works explore abstract sculptural forms and physical arrangements and space beyond the limitations of the human body. ~wikipedia
