Thierry Mugler woman, the designer who raised fashion to pure fantasy
"The greatest elegance is the truth".This phrase from Thierry Mugler could be a good summary of the spirit with which the French fashion designer always faced his professional career.Manfred Thierry Mugler (according to his full name) died for natural causes this Sunday, January 23 at 73 years of age, as he has confirmed his own team in the Instagram account of the Creator, who currently brings together more than 640.000 followers and in which he himself defined himself as "director, inventor of shows, creator of perfumes, fashion designer and photographer".
Indeed, a single label would be insufficient to describe Mugler, transgressor and visionary as few in the world of fashion business.Born in Strasbourg in 1948, he was a lonely child who very soon began to practice dance, to the point that at age 14 he was already a professional dancer of the Opéra National Du Rhin, in his hometown.
His father exercised as a doctor, while his mother "was a model of elegance for whom Thierry Mugler professed an admiration mixed with an absolute rejection of that bourgeoisie of which, she liked it or not, she was part," according to author DanièleBott in the book Thierry Mugler.Galaxie Glamor, edited by Ramsay in 2009.That very young and tireless Mugler, who was able to dance up to 14 hours a day, was always attracted to the world of theater and show, something that later had a faithful reflection in the conception and aesthetics of his parades.
Irina Shayk with Thierry Mugler at an exhibition from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in honor of the designer.Instagram (@manfredthierrymugler)
The Creator landed in Paris in 1969, where he began collaborating with other fashion designers and also tried luck as a photographer.In 1973 he presented his first collection, Café de Paris, and in 1975 he decided to found the Maison Thierry Mugler, who immediately gained renown for his architectural style designs, always full of fantasy and highly seductive."In me, provocation is natural," he came to declare.
Proof that he liked to do things differently from the rest is that to celebrate his Maison's first ten years he organized a parade with 350 models in which much of the 6.000 attendees paid their tickets as if it were a rock concert.Another of his statements collected in the book Thierry Mugler.Galaxie glamor and that perfectly reflects its original philosophy is as follows: “Fashion is not enough.I try to transmit sensations, a feeling.I always tell stories.Stories of men and women: spies, virgins, heroes, parisins or secretaries, the life of each is an adventure.I imagine my characters and put them on stage.For me, clothing is a language ".
Cardi B with a Thierry Mugler design at the Grammy Awards.
With that unique and personal language he wore women with extravagant designs inspired by insects, robots or comic characters.Among his muses were such emblematic models as Jerry Hall, Linda Evangelista, Adriana Karembbeu, Veruschka, Stella Tennant, Nadja Auermann, Shalom Harlow, Eva Herzigova, Iman, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer ... More recently, in 2019, he devised an outfit for theKim Kardashian celebrity on the occasion of the famous gala of the New York Metropolitan Museum, in an appearance that went viral.
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There is the circumstance that, at the time of his death, the work of Thierry Mugler star.In the book-catalog of this exhibition, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, president of the museum, recognizes that with this exhibition a pending debt with the French designer, one of the few fashion geniuses who had not yet had a retrospectiveof his career in the French capital.
"Welcome the Thierry Mugler exhibition.Couturissime is an honor for the Museum of Decorative Arts and a unique opportunity for the public: each silhouette, suit and accessory is an artistic work, ”says Dumas, who also highlights in the catalog text the involvement that the creator himself gave toThis project, "with its active presence and its complicity".
This year 2022, Thierry Mugler was not only current for this retrospective, but also due to the fact that its most emblematic perfume, Angel, fulfills its 30th anniversary since the year of its creation, in 1992.In this facet, the designer also broke all the molds, since he rebelled at the trend of the floral fragrances that prevailed three decades ago.
Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger during the presentation of 'Angel' in 2015.Gtres
In this sense, the Spanish perfume academy is another of the organizations that wanted to recognize the indelible footprint of this visionary on the occasion of his death: “For our academics, Angel marked the beginning of the Gourmand perfumery, very innovative for not carrying flowerAnd by the Praliné note, as well as for the amount of Pachuli, generating an addiction for the fusion of taste and smell, ”the institution stands out on its social networks, to add that this olfactory formula“ is wild in its concept ”and that“ “Women's perfumery could not be explained without it;It is the history of perfumery ".
Created by the noses Oliver Cresp and Yves de Chirin, Angel - which initially marketed the Clarins Group and is now in the hands of L'Oréal - remains today one of the five best -selling perfumes in the world, according to the specialized portal inBusiness of Fashion Fashion (BOF).
It is no accident that this mythical perfume - which has survived in the middle of time in time in such a competitive industry - is packaged in a star -shaped jar, because it was the fetish symbol of Thierry Mugler.It is another samples of taste that fantasy designer professed in all its aspects."The star gives me happiness from my childhood," said.Of course, his thing was not to hold on to the mundane and standardized, but that he chose to take refuge in everything that allowed usexceptional poetry ".
