Manfred T.Mugler, better known as Thierry Mugler, French fashion figure from the 1970s to 2000 has for three decades, rubbed shoulders with other big fashion names like Jean Paul Gaultier, Claude Montana and Azzedine Alaïa, and neverceased to combine his often contradictory obsessions, but always with talent.
Called “Café de Paris”, the first mugler claw collection dates from 1973, then over time, it will slowly but surely imposed its claw.Mugler then draws, architectural and anatomical models, black tailors and trenches for “Executive women sexy”, often considered sexist fantasies.But Thierry Mugler's fashion wants to be above all feminine, a bodied, conquering, and ultrasensual femininity!Thierry Mugler revolutionized fashion with his 360 -degree vision and sublimated a conquering femininity.
It was on December 23, 1948, in Strasbourg, that Thierry Mugler was born.At the age of 9, the child begins learning classical dance."I was a lonely, lost, autistic and anorexic kid.I was able to express myself by my body, "he told Paris Match in May 2009.
At 14, he joined, like a Rat, the ballet of the National Rhine Opera.Then, his craze for the scene, the creation of costumes and the art of the Enlightenment, Thierry Mugler fits into the decorative arts of Strasbourg to become an interior designer.
From 1970 Thierry Mugler sold in particular his drawings and sketches to manufacturers of the path then, at the Gudule store.When Thierry Mugler arrived in Paris in the 1960s, he was a classic, flexible, slender dancer, but today he himself reinvented his body with great reinforcements of muscles and tattoos.
Visionary couturier, Thierry Mugler, now renamed Manfred Thierry Mugler, he has become a colossus Bodybuilded.In the midst of the clip of the normcore of the years 1990-2000, the creator detonates but also disturbs.But in 2002, the creator decided to stop everything to devote himself to his two other passions: the staging of monumental shows and photography.
On the other hand, his perfumer activity, whose popularity has never denied, and his bestseller "Angel" created in 1992, and his second perfume called "Alien", launched in 2005, today generate millions of'Euros of annual sales.
From September 30, 2021 to April 24, 2022, the Paris Decorative Arts Museum hosts the exhibition "Thierry Mugler, Couturissime".This ample exhibition, tells a work that has become legendary.
Silhouettes and ready-to-wear and haute couture accessories, stage costumes, photographs, videos and unpublished archives, dated from 1973 to 2014, retrace the fascinating universe of the Creator, as well as his multiple artistic collaborations in the fields of the show,Music and cinema
Everything we see in Couturissime, everything I created, was done by hand indicates Thierry Mugler.This event tells the story of a visionary artist, photographer, perfume inventor and director.The work of a singular imagination creator who turned fashion, haute couture and perfume.