Author(s): Joakim Andreasson

FASHION DESIGNERS | NEW ARRIVALS

An immersive book edited from more than 10,300 photographs of original Pre-Spring /Summer 2005 Helmut Lang designs photographed by Joakim Andreasson over the course of three years, between 2015-2017, as well as related documents. The book encompasses a visual encapsulation of apparel and accessories that were salvaged from a now infamous 2010 fire that ripped through the SOHO (New York) building that housed the former designer’s archive and were years later sold off on behalf of Lang by Andreasson on eBay and to private collectors.

The photographs, candidly prepared as visual support for these sales, serve as an important and inimitable survey of Helmut Lang designs, with an edit pre-determined by catastrophic circumstances.