Inside NYFW: The New Era of Helmut Lang with Peter Do

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.1 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It’s New York Fashion Shark Week on the podcast, and in this episode Vogue’s Nicole Phelps talks with designer Peter Do about his new role as Creative Director at Helmut Lang. Do opens up about emigrating to the United States, learning to sew (on a $20 sewing machine from Kmart), and his long-standing reverence for Helmut Lang that goes back when Do was in high school and on Tumblr.

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0:00.0	This is The Run Through. I'm Chloe Mal.
0:06.1	And I'm Germanardi. And we are day two of Fashion Week.
0:10.3	Happy New York Fashion Week, everyone.
0:12.9	God, we have seven episodes coming out this week. Seven.
0:16.5	It's a marathon, Jonah, not a sprint.
0:18.2	Ooh, I hope I make it.
0:20.3	Well, we're here with Nicole.
0:22.2	Nicole Phelps.
0:23.2	Nicole, you've joined us several times.
0:25.6	Would you mind introducing yourself?
0:27.3	I'm the global director of Vogue Runway.
0:29.6	Tell us who you interviewed today.
0:32.2	I interviewed Peter Doe, who is a regular on the New York Fashion Week schedule,
0:37.3	but is this season taking his own
0:39.4	collection to Paris because he is making his debut at Helmut Lang today this afternoon.
0:44.7	Oh, interesting. And for those of us who may not know, why is Helmut Lang a big deal?
0:51.2	I have such great memories of Helmut Lang. He was one of my very first favorite
0:55.5	designers when I got into fashion in the 90s. He sort of, to me, defines cool 90s minimalism.
1:02.4	Everybody wanted a black pantsuit by helmet. Everybody wore, Helmut Lang jeans or a helmet
1:08.4	laying jean jacket, and, you know, the lucky few who scored one of his cool military parkas.
1:15.9	You know, I looked on with envy.
1:18.0	What do you have of helmet now that you still wear?
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