Object: Dress
Designer:
Helmut Lang
(born 1956)
Date: Fall 1996
Medium: Wool
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Lieberman, MD
Object number: 2003.90.4
DescriptionSweater shift dress in black and olive green lightweight wool with open texture knit pattern of vine and flowers; round neck, long sleeves pieced with slit at elbow, curved drop waist seam, calf length
Label Text:Helmut Lang’s inventive designs spanned multiple 1990s trends, but they were most consistently categorized as minimalist. Even when the designer’s work was at its simplest, however, it featured idiosyncratic details. The incorporation of slits over a garment’s elbows, as seen on this otherwise classic sweater dress, was one of Lang’s signatures.
Exhibitions:
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties