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Helmut Lang Christopher Street 2020


HELMUT LANG SEEN BY SUNIL GUPTA
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IN 1976, SUNIL GUPTA PICKED UP A CAMERA AND STARTED “CRUISING” CHRISTOPHER STREET, A STRETCH OF GREENWICH VILLAGE THAT WAS HOME TO A NEWLY EMBOLDENED POST-STONEWALL QUEER COMMUNITY. GUPTA HAD ARRIVED IN NEW YORK CITY FROM MONTREAL TO PURSUE AN MBA, BUT SOON ABANDONED A BUSINESS DEGREE TO FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE NEW SCHOOL. HE WOULD GO ON TO TAKE HIS PLACE WITH THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED ARTISTS AND CULTURAL CURATORS OF HIS GENERATION, EXPLORING THE WAY IDENTITIES REVEAL THEMSELVES UNDER VARIOUS SEXUAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, AND HISTORICAL CONDITIONS. THE CHRISTOPHER STREET PHOTOGRAPHS CEMENTED A LIFELONG DEDICATION TO PORTRAYING PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED A SPACE TO BE THEMSELVES. 

FOR HELMUT LANG, GUPTA RETURNS TO CHRISTOPHER STREET, AND CAPTURES FRIENDS AND COLLABORATORS OF THE BRAND IN A NEW SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS FEATURING THE HELMUT LANG AW 2020 COLLECTION. 

THE HELMUT LANG AW 2020 COLLECTION, DESIGNED BY THOMAS CAWSON, CREATIVE DIRECTOR HELMUT LANG JEANS, CONTINUES THE BRAND’S CODES OF UTILITY, CIVILITY AND DEVIANCE. 


CREATIVE DIRECTOR, JEANS: THOMAS CAWSON
PHOTOGRAPHER: SUNIL GUPTA
CREATIVE DIRECTION: BRIAN PHILLIPS
STYLIST: HELENA TEJEDOR AT CADENCE
CASTING: FINLAY AT THE ESTABLISHMENT
HAIR: AKKI AT ART PARTNER 
MAKEUP: FARA HOMIDI AT TOGETHER COMPANY
MANICURIST: DAWN STERLING
SHOOT PRODUCTION: WEI LI WANG AT HUDSON HILL
PUBLIC RELATIONS: BLACK FRAME
EXHIBITION PRODUCTION: REPLICA

CAST: 
ATTILA SÁRKÖZI
BARBARA VALENTE
CAMERON LEE PHAN
DEBRA SHAW
ISAAC POWELL
JAMILY WERNKE MEURE
LIZZIE ALEXANDRA
MARC HUNDLEY
MEL OTTENBERG
NOAH CARLOS
PARKER KIT HILL
RAHM BOWEN
RASSAN WYZARD
SILVIA PRADA
SLAVA MOGUTIN
YESIM AK
YILAN HUA
JACOB BIXENMAN

ABOUT SUNIL GUPTA:
SUNIL GUPTA (B. 1953 NEW DELHI, INDIA) IS A PHOTOGRAPHER, CURATOR, WRITER AND ACTIVIST BASED IN LONDON. GUPTA’S WORK IS IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (NY, USA) TATE BRITAIN (UK), PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (USA), TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY (JAPAN), THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM (TORONTO), GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE (ROCHESTER, USA), ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN (LONDON), NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA (OTTAWA), HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES).

ABOUT HELMUT LANG:
ESTABLISHED IN 1986, HELMUT LANG IS ONE OF FASHION’S MOST INFLUENTIAL BRANDS, KNOWN FOR ITS PIONEERING MINIMALISM, ENGAGEMENT WITH ARTISTS AND SURPRISING CHALLENGES TO ORTHODOXY. TODAY, THE BRAND PAYS HOMAGE TO ITS NAMESAKE WITH A PROGRESSIVE, HIGHLY DYNAMIC APPROACH, FEATURING A NEW GENERATION OF CREATIVES REINTERPRETING THE DESIGNER’S LEGACY ACROSS READY-TO-WEAR, SPECIAL EDITION CAPSULES, MULTI- DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS AND MORE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.HELMUTLANG.COM AND SOCIAL CHANNELS @HELMUTLANG.
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    • London 1982
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    • Christopher Street, New York 1976
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • Reflections of the Black Experience
    • Asians / Bradford
    • Social Security
    • Exiles
    • "Pretended" Family Relationships
    • Trespass 1
    • Trespass 2
    • Trespass 3
    • From Here to Eternity
    • Homelands
    • Tales of a City: Delhi
    • Imagining Childhood
    • Country: Portrait of an Indian Village
    • Love and Light
    • Mr Malhotra's Party
    • The New Pre-Raphaelites
    • Love, Undetectable
    • Sun City
    • Women in Love
    • Stockwell
    • Helmut Lang Christopher Street
  • Books
    • London 1982
    • From Here To Eternity
    • Lovers Ten Years On
    • Christopher Street
    • Delhi: Communities of Belonging
    • Queer
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Pictures From Here
    • Exiles
    • From Here To Eternity
    • Trespass
    • Disrupted Borders
    • An Economy of Signs
    • Ecstatic Antibodies
  • Video
  • Curating
    • Same Difference
    • Fernando Arias
    • Divine Facades
    • Simryn Gill
    • The New Republics
    • Joy Gregory
    • Stevie Bezencenet
  • Columns
    • A Return from Exile
    • Relative Values
    • The End of Marriage
    • A Laying on of Hands
    • City of Dreams
    • Oral History
    • Pride and Prejudice
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