The designer was concentrated in Paris these days for the Menswear and Haute Couture Weeks, where he was going to announce a new collaboration.
Thierry Mugler gave women the opportunity to dress like heroines and since the 1980s it has transformed fashion through the showcase that icons such as Madonna, Lady Gaga o Kim Kardashian. The most scenic creator, who turned catwalks into rock concerts, unexpectedly He passed away this Sunday at the age of 73..
Born in Strasbourg in 1948, Manfred Thierry Mugler was before designer dancer. He started working at the age of 14 in the Rhine Opera, before traveling to Paris to try to gain a foothold in the dance.
But what attracted attention were not his steps but his clothes, for which he began to be hired as Freelance stylist in Paris, London and Milan.
With only 25 years decided to go further and opened his first store cafe de paris, a springboard to what a year later would be the Thierry Mugler society, with which he began to dress women with a futuristic theatricality.
He said that it was the dance that had taught him “the organization of the dress, the importance of the shoulders, the game and the rhythm of the legs”.
Starting from tailoring suit of the decade of 1940 with which he had triumphed Christian Dior, exaggerated the feminine forms marking the shoulders, narrowing the waist, lengthening the necklines and drawing artificial and voluminous hips.
One dramatics which explains the close relationship that Mugler had throughout his career with singers like Madonna, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and more recently celebrity e influence Kim Kardashian.
“He has imagined me as a Californian girl who comes out of the ocean, wet, dripping,” Kardashian said at the awards gala Met, in 2019, to which he led “the wet dress”, whose realization took eight months of work.
That sculpted dress was the first she designed Mugler in twenty years, after having loosened the reins of his firm in 2003 to pursue the rest of his passions: photography, costumes for theaters and musicals and even theater direction.
Theatrical and futuristic
the fashion of Mugler fit like a glove in the excesses of the 80s, where the woman he proposed seemed to transform into a robot or a mermaid.
its huge sense of the show went to a higher level on the tenth anniversary of the creation of his brand, in 1984, when he gathered 6,000 people in the Zénith de Paris concert hall to show off your latest collection.
Was the first public fashion presentation in Europe which could be accessed like any concert, paying a ticket that cost 178 francs (27 euros), recalls the evening paper The world, which remembers that catwalk like “a rock concert”.
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In the 90’s it came Angel, a perfume in a star-shaped bottle that became one of the best sellers in history and that he came to dispute the first place FEMALE 5 by Chanel.
So many eccentricities did not end his tremendous sense of independence: Mugler rejected the proposal of businessman Bernard Arnault of directing Dior, as he had refused some years before to work in the costumes from a Francis Ford Coppola film.
Dior ended up in the hands of a young Gibraltarian who was revolutionizing London fashion with his decadent style, marked by a Mugler-like sense of drama, John Galliano.
love for the theater
In the last years of his life Mugler lived between Paris and New York, where he was seduced by the enormity of the city and its skyscrapers.
He turned to shows like Mugler Follies, a transformist musical who triumphed in Paris and Berlin in 2013. Even then it refused to be considered a museum object, and only in 2019 did it allow the city of Montreal will dedicate a retrospective who has traveled the world and who recently arrived in Paris, where the designer was celebrated as a myth.
yoga and bodybuilding they also marked his entry into old age, and he himself appeared unrecognizable in recent years between his muscles and his repeated visits to cosmetic surgery operating rooms.
His unexpected death, for natural reasons, this Sunday at the age of 73, has surprised colleagues and admirers in the world of fashion, concentrated in Paris these days for the celebration of the Menswear and Haute Couture Weeks.
“A visionary whose imagination as a seamstress, perfumer and creator of images empowered the people Worldwide to be more daring and dream more every day”, Wrote his brand on social networks, which announced his death early on Monday.
According to his agent in the local press, this week was planning to announce a new collaboration, within the framework of the multiple projects that he carried out, always looking to the future.
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