New York Fashion Week: Helmut Lang offers bubble wrap and balaclavas

Oversized wool coats, quilted jackets, turtlenecks and hoods reinforced the collection's ‘protection and projection’ themes

Bubble wrap, balaclavas and puffy jackets took centrestage astatine the Helmut Lang amusement that kicked disconnected New York Fashion Week connected 9 February.

"I consciousness similar surviving successful New York, a batch tin hap successful a day. So I consciousness similar I privation to supply a instrumentality for you to beryllium acceptable for immoderate it takes," said Vietnamese-American decorator Peter Do pursuing the show.

An in-demand decorator who besides heads his ain line, Do was tasked with reinventing Helmut Lang's chic and minimalist aesthetic, which shaped manner successful the 1990s and 2000s, earlier the Austrian decorator quit.

Also read: How to get the FROW look

Now the marque belongs to Japanese elephantine Fast Retailing, which besides owns Uniqlo.

Under the dome of a erstwhile slope successful Brooklyn's trendy Williamsburg, Do revisited the inventions of his creator ancestors, including colored bubble wrapper made from silk worn arsenic pants and jackets.

Oversized wool coats, quilted jackets, turtlenecks, hoods, balaclavas reinforced the collection's "protection and projection" themes.

Some were inspired by abstraction suits, portion the colour palette echoed the bright, astir fluorescent orangish of the past.

"I conscionable privation to spot the thoroughfare represented," Do said.

With a twelve shows a time until mid-week, the Big Apple heralds the commencement of the autumn-winter 2024 ready-to-wear manner weeks, up of London, past Milan and Paris.

Testament to Lang's influence, the docket was changed successful the precocious 90s erstwhile helium decided to permission Paris for New York, truthful that the US megacity would travel first.

A fig of heavyweights and renowned American ready-to-wear designers are expected this season, including Tommy Hilfiger aboriginal Friday, followed by Michael Kors, Thom Browne and Tory Burch.

Carolina Herrera and Gabriela Hearst are besides connected the calendar.

Paris-based decorator Ludovic de Saint Sernin, a proponent of intimate, androgynous designs, volition besides marque a uncommon detour to New York with a amusement connected Sunday evening.

Also read: Are luxury mascaras worthy the money?