Simply, Helmut Lang
A man of few words and even fewer public appearances, Helmut Lang is considered the forefather of minimalist designs and has with surgical precision, laid groundwork for other great designers like Dries van Noten. Here are a few notables: Lang was born in 1956 in rural Vienna, Austria. Of growing up in such spartan surroundings, Helmut said, “To grow up under really simple circumstances and to understand that certain things were ornamental—the idea of the simple life interrupted by the