As part of a city wide promotion of fashion as a cultural art, the city of Hanover, Germany, presents Hanover Goes Fashion. Starting August 31, 2008, ten cultural and artistic institutions will present exhibitions relating to fashion design. Among them, Kestner Gesellschaft offers the first institutional solo exhibition from Helmut Lang, entitled Alles Gleich Schwer. The exhibition runs through November 2, 2008.

Lang offers this description: "The continuity is that I'm expressing what's important to me with the appropriate form, content and context through different mediums and other dimensions." Above, Helmut Lang self portrait, 2007.

Fans will be glad to know he's still loaded with creative impulses even as Helmut Lang, the brand, is a shadow of its former self without Helmut Lang, the man. Below, an installation detail, 2008, from Helmut Lang: Alles Glich Schwer.