IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES. "Thierry Mugler: Couturissime" or the creative madness of a flamboyant couturier at the Museum of Decorative Arts

Thierry Mugler died on January 23 on the eve of Parisian haute couture week. The first retrospective dedicated to the couturier is installed at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris until April 24, 2022. 140 outfits, costumes, sketches and archives - retracing 35 years of career - revisit the universe of this visionary couturier, also photographer and director. on stage.

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Couturier Thierry Mugler died on January 23, but the work of this daring designer with a singular imagination who revolutionized fashion and haute couture can be seen at the MAD where the Thierry Mugler exhibition is held: couturissime - initiated, produced and put on tour by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which presented it as a world premiere in 2019.

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"I have always been fascinated by the most beautiful animal on earth: the human being. I used all the tools at my disposal to sublimate it: fashion, the staging of shows, perfumes, photography, video (…)” declared Manfred Thierry Mugler, at the launch of the exhibition, at the start of the 2021 school year.

Far from being an ordinary retrospective, it is her life and her energy that are showcased in the renovated spaces of the Stephen A and Christine Schwarzmann fashion galleries at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. On two floors, at each section of the route, the scenography has been meticulously taken care of: immersive, it plunges, for example, into the animal and aquatic world, then into a futuristic atmosphere...

For Olivier Gabet, director of MAD, he is "curious about everything, an eminently free and independent figure, he has long been a vibrant source of inspiration for the fashion world". From the 1970s until 2002, he established himself as one of the most inventive couturiers of his time, going so far as to embody the image of the 1980s with a graphic silhouette. In the 1990s he contributed to the renaissance of haute couture, through his collections and his sense of staging spectacular fashion shows and grandiose photographs combined with the most iconic models. Discovery or rediscovery of this visionary, also a photographer, inventor of perfumes and showman, it is unthinkable to miss this Parisian stage dedicated to this undeniable figure of fashion. Fascinating !