Helmut Lang
Three years ago he shocked the fashion world by walking away from the groundbreaking label he founded. We visit the designer-turned-artist at his farmhouse in East Hampton, where he tends his organic garden and focuses on his cerebral art. Read our interview with Lang.
October 2008
Helmut Lang at home in East Hampton.
October 2008
It’s one of those glorious, cloudless days of summer, and Helmut Lang,
the avatar of stripped-down, urban cool, strides past the restored 1790
farmhouse, the shingled chicken coop, the organic vegetable garden and
the assorted ducks scrambling on his East Hampton oceanfront property to
greet me. One of the most influential designers of the Nineties, whose
cult status endures, Lang has been pretty much ensconced in this bucolic
idyll since selling his remaining shares in his company to the Prada
Group in 2004 and soon after resigning from the house he created. For
the past three years, fashionistas have mourned his departure while
speculating about what he’s been up to...Continued...
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