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How Helmut Lang Changed Fashion

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Helmut Lang never wanted to be first. He just kept seeing where things were going before anyone else did.In the 1990s, Lang built the visual language that now defines serious fashion, the lean silhouette, the industrial materials, the idea that restraint is its own form of luxury. Designers from Raf Simons to Hedi Slimane have named him as their defining influence. And yet Lang himself walked away from fashion in 2005 without a farewell collection, a memoir, or an explanation. This is the story of how one designer changed everything, and then disappeared. Subscribe for documentary-style analysis of the history and strategy behind luxury fashion.#LuxuryFashion #FashionHistory #HelmutLang

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