Thierry Mugler

Thierry Mugler (born with Strasbourg in 1948) is a Styliste French, creator of Vêtement S of Haute couture and Parfum S.

Childhood of art to the artist

Thierry Mugler is born with the shade from the cathedral from Strasbourg; rebellious child, it is fascinated by the disproportion of the Gothic architecture. At fourteen years, it joined the Ballets of the national Opéra of the Rhine then follows, in parallel, the courses of the school of Decorative Arts. At twenty-three years, with Paris, its pace and its style cause a shock. It then creates logos, windows of stores and clothing which it exposes in the first Parisian connected shop, Gudule . Become freelance designer, he works during a few years between Paris, London, Milan and Barcelona.

Audacity of a style to the talent multifacettes

In 1973, Thierry Mugler carries out his first line of clothing, town and sophisticated, “Coffee of Paris”. He pays homage to “Parisian in Petite black dress” and starts again, with his way, the tailor and the trench. In 1974, with counter-current of a folk and déstructurée fashion, it creates its own claw, asserting the feminine elegance. With a revolutionary cut, it then initiates a new silhouette, strongly stylized: anatomical, graphic and sublimating the femininity of the bodies. Visionary, Thierry Mugler innovates in the forms as much as in the matters. He reinvents the seduction and is described as “creator of shock” by the press. The fashion is then for him a setting in scene of the daily newspaper where the woman appears. Playing with the Leather, the Metal, PVC, etc it carves and creates a released, strong, conquering and sensual woman.

In 1978, Thierry Mugler works over again the traditional masculine and gives him a resolutely modern style: functional, slim, anatomical.

With the invitation of the Employers' federation of the Haute couture, it carries out its first collection of haute couture in 1992. Each model is thought there as a work of Article Its processions are designed as true spectacles of which he is the originator and Director. Mannequins and artists côtoient there unexpected celebrities and characters in multiple universes: The Zenith (1984: 6000 spectators come to celebrate the 10 years of the mark), the Cirque of winter of Paris (1995), etc It then forms part of the Creators of the Années 1990 which hoist the fashion with the row of visual art, of show business.

Throughout these years, it is impassioned for the Photo and publishes its first book in 1988, “Thierry Mugler Photographe”, followed into 1999 of a monograph, “Fashion Fetish Fantasy”. Its field of expression: the setting in scene of characters in disproportionate universes.

Director of extraordinary, it is also Réalisateur of short films, advertizing films and video clips. He creates costumes for musical comedies, concerts, operas and the theater like Macbeth for the Comédie-Française. He works in particular with artists such as Mylène Farmer, Robert Altman and George Michael.

1992, a new territory of expression: birth of Angel, first Perfume of Thierry Mugler. It is made also exclusive photographer of visual institutional of Thierry Mugler Parfums .

2000, Thierry Mugler moves away from the world of the mode for other universes. More than ever, it sticks to the creation of the perfumes. General-purpose artist, it collaborates with the prestigious Cirque of the Sun in 2003. He creates at the same time costumes and the identity of characters of “Zumanity”. Putting in scene one of the tables of the spectacle, it takes part in a new era of the circus: “the erotic cabaret”.

2007, on the traces of Angel, it created the Secret Innocent perfume, in collaboration with the Club of the Creators of Beauty.

Before the exposure planned for 2008 to the Museum of the Mode of Paris, the last edition of Fashion Week of Barcelona organized a procession retrospective (the “Inheritance” Thierry Mugler, filed and restored carefully during thousands of hours) with more than sixty silhouettes of legend. An imposing spectacle on the site of the Olympic swimming pool of Montjuic, in the purest tradition muglérienne.

With the meeting of the Clarins group

In 1990, it meets Clarins, company of cosmetics since 1954, number one of the beauty products. Between the artist and Clarins, a woman: Véra Strubi . She contributed beforehand to the success of great names of perfumery. It is with it that returns the task to weave the bonds between the artist and the Group.

In 1992, is born a very new mark then from Perfumery: Thierry Mugler .

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