Helmut Lang AW97 Side Stripe Black Leather Pants

Helmut Lang cut these black leather pants for Autumn Winter 1997, in the years when the Austrian designer was still showing in Paris and treating utilitarian materials with tailoring precision. Stripes running down the leg recur throughout his work of this period, on jeans as well as trousers, lifted from uniform and formalwear dress codes. Leather stood alongside his technical fabrics as a core material of the label in the 1990s.