Joakim Andreasson, Helmut Lang Archive Dispersed

Helmut Lang Archive Dispersed

Joakim Andreasson

Publisher
Baron Books
Year
2024
Specifications
Soft bound book, Swiss binding
Gatefold cover
Sealed with fire tape
Archive box with drawer (skull archive box)
26 x 20 cm
358 pages
Limited edition of 1,000 copies
First edition
Text by Eugene Rabkin, Yale Breslin and Jeppe Ugelvig
Winner, Fashion Book of the Year Award 2025 (Ephemera, Paris)

An immersive book edited from more than 10,300 photographs of original Pre-Spring/Summer 2005 Helmut Lang designs, taken by Joakim Andreasson between 2015 and 2017, together with related documents. The garments were salvaged from the 2010 fire that ripped through the SoHo building housing the designer's archive and were sold off years later. Andreasson's photographs, made as visual support for those sales, form an inimitable survey of Lang's work, with an edit pre-determined by catastrophic circumstances. The design draws on clothing catalogues produced in the post-war period, and the book comes sealed in an archive box of the kind used to house human skulls and other artefacts. It also examines the present-day stature of Lang's designs and their undeniable influence on fashion.

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