Shayne Oliver, of Hood by Air, kicks off a series of guest takes on the designer whose look has never gone away
It is 12 years since the designer left the Manhattan fashion scene in favour of life as a sculptor in upstate New York, but the Helmut Lang look never went away.
Lang gave the modern urban creative class its uniform: snake-hipped, flat-fronted black trousers with a tissue-thin white cotton T-shirt; a slip dress with biker boots; a bomber jacket with paint-spattered jeans – all of these are classic Lang looks. They never went out of fashion, they just had a different name on the label.
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