Thierry Mugler, designer who shaped the fashion of the 80s, dies
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French designer Thierry Mugler, who revolutionized the fashion world in the 1980s and whose spectacular designs were worn by everyone from Lady Gaga to Kim Kardashian, died "a natural death" on Sunday, his press officer announced. Spectacular shapes for anatomical fashion, sharp and angular cuts, extreme volumes, wide shoulders, a tight waist, expressive sensuality and voluptuousness or the olfactory trail of that perfume with a star-shaped bottle, 'Angel', which left scents of chocolate and cream caramel. All that was Thierry Mugler.
In the early 1970s, Mugler invented the "glamazone", a modern, chic, urban and glamorous woman. The designer revolutionized the catwalks. He gave stripes and prestige to the best prêt-à-porter and broke all the codes of the classic presentation of fashion houses. He turned his fashion shows into shows, where the staging, music and choreography were almost as important as the dresses the models wore. "My only true vocation is the show," Mugler once said, who turned his models into real stars of his show-parades. In 1984, some 6,000 people attended a parade of his, now legendary, at the Zénith hall in Paris, in which 60 models took part, showing 350 of his sensational designs. In 1995, for the 20th anniversary of his fashion house, he introduced what many consider to be his finest creation: Maschinenmensch, a fully articulated robotic armor inspired by the robot from the Fritz Lang movie "Metropolis."
Mugler left behind with his fantasies the shapes and trends of his time, turning women into contemporary heroines, into protagonists of his own power or into stars so capable of being angels with his silhouettes and aesthetic avant-garde discourses. how the hell.
"Fashion is almost like the cinema, every morning you get dressed and direct your own movie," said Mugler, who in 2002 abandoned the design of his collections to give himself to the world of the scene. But the poetic memory of his formal extravagance remains, the avant-garde of his 'looks' in the 70s, 80s and 90s, the inspiration of his anatomical cut and even the millionaire sales of that star perfume that he released in 1992 and revolutionized the world of perfumery with that aroma so sweet that it seems taken from a pastry shop.
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Kim Kardashian dressed in Mugler at the 2019 Met Gala./File
Legendary were his collaborations with David Bowie, Iman, George Michael, the members of Duran Duran and his muse Jerry Hall. Throughout his career, Thierry Mugler has dressed celebrities such as Beyonce, Cardi B, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Demi Moore, Megan Fox, Miley Cyrus, Sharon Stone, Diana Ross and Nicole Kidman.
The news of his death coincides with an exhibition in Paris on the creative universe of Mugler. 'La Chimère', one of the most expensive dresses in fashion history, welcomes visitors to the show at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. This showy and colorful dress, worn by the model Adriana Karembeu at the presentation of her fall-winter 1997-1998 collection, looks like the costume of a mythological creature, half mermaid, half bird, with its golden corset, its scales, its feathers. and their horsehair.
The exhibition showcases Mugler's fantastic bestiary, with designs inspired by insects, reptiles, birds and butterflies, or sea creatures.
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