@emptygallery.jpeg: Minimalism, boring? Not in Helmut Lang's hands. Take the Austrian designer's fall collection of 1994, the star of which was a sleeveless shift almost elementary in its shape, but in a raspberry pink latex as shiny as a candy wrapper imprinted with lace. It's 20 years later and that simple but decidedly not plain little dress hasn't aged a day. Lang retired in January 2005, a few months after Prada bought the remainder of his company (he sold the first 51 percent in 1999), but it's no wonder his work remains a touchstone for fashion's most influential designers…ig:emptygallery.jpeg
