The unforced androgyny of his clothing taps into the fluidity of sexual identity that is so au courant in youth culture today. The dead-on accuracy of a menswear line that mixes casual comfort with rigorous design has found its way on the backs of everyone from terrace lads gallivanting on their council estates to the ultimate post-human icon, Michael Jackson.

Best of all, each unit of clothing he produces is as utilitarian and wearable as a uniform even as it communicates the essence of a world shifting from being an industrial society to a information culture.

When it is time for our suits to be lined with fiber optics so the latest-info bites might be channeled directly into out Cellphone/Walkman : when electronic companies need to hire the de riguer name to design their VR goggles then let there be only one choice. Helmut Lang.

SPECIAL THANKS TO RICK PERRY, MANK, TAMARA AND HELMUT LANG