“Being Modern,” According to Helmut Lang, “Is About the Right Mix of Things.” Read Vogue’s May 2000 Profile of the Designer Here

SCENE BUT NOT HEARD

Actress and scene-maker Chloë Sevigny personifies the Arctic cool that’s best worn with Lang’s designs. Sheer top, and skirt, Helmut Lang. Opposite: the elusive Austrian designer. Hair Didier Malige for Frédéric Fekkai Beauté; makeup, James Kaliardos. Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington.

“Scents & Sensibility,” by Sally Singers, was originally published in the May 2000 issue of Vogue.

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Backstage at the Helmut Lang fall 2000 show, a fashion situation—not to be confused with a fashion moment—has arisen. The world’s hottest clothes hanger, also known as Gisele Bündchen, has decided not to join Stephanie Seymour, Claudia Schiffer, Tatjana Patitz, Cecilia Chancellor, and the other be