Helmut Lang 

It would have been a pretty sad day when Helmut Lang left his own company in 2005. I'm not sure who's designing under his name now, I think it's some couple - from memory they might even be from Australia. This is what he said about leaving:

"The size of the company kept growing, and I had the feeling at one point that I would become the victim of my own success and get pushed further away from what I worked so hard to be able to do. I did try to do more artistic work in between, but it was not possible to be one of the main players in the fashion world and then to do art at the same time. I was ready to take a new challenge, in part because in fashion, things have become very predictable."

Images via TFS. 

Photography by Terry Richardson 

1993 - 2003