
Helmut Lang’s ’Make It Hard’ sculptures are all that remains of his personal professional archive as a fashion designer

Lang, who retired from his eponymous Prada-owned label in January 2005 to live in Long Island and make art, has shredded 6,000 of his garments, using the metabolised scraps of fabric, fur, feathers, leather, plastic, hair and metal as the raw material for his artworks

The Austrian designer, who has already donated thousands of pieces to museums worldwide, destroyed more than 25 years worth of his collections to create the floor-to-ceiling column-shaped artefacts

The works are currently on show at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, USA

According to writer and creative director Neville Wakefield, who is presenting the exhibition, Lang’s sartorial oeuvre now takes the form of ’strangely beautiful excretions’, which erase the past and bear witness to ’the transience of our creative endeavours’

The sculptures will be on show at the gallery until 8 August