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Long black coat and white T-shirt

Spring 1998 Ready-to-Wear (shown 1997)

Materials

Not specified in the source

House / label

Helmut Lang

Collection

Spring 1998 Ready-to-Wear

Archive reference

Vogue Runway · coverage-helmut-lang-look-1

Behind the design

Lang’s spring 1998 opening look pairs a long dark coat and loose trousers with a white top. The limited palette makes proportion and layering easy to read, while the fabric detail at the waist complicates the apparent simplicity. It shows how 1990s minimalism could be spare without eliminating surprise.

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