There won't be another like ThierryMugler
Mugler, center, at his 1995 20th anniversary show. Photo: Michel Arnaud/Corbis via Getty Images Even among fashion’s showmen — a dense crowd — one stands alone: Thierry Mugler. Mugler, who died Sunday at 73, was from the ’70s through the ’90s one of the great ringmasters of fashion, an innovator who refused to be limited by the conventions of normal dressing. He did make suits and tight little dresses and swimwear, but he also made robot suits and centurion armor and hand-beaded chaps.
Photo: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images But the age of mega was waning. “I didn’t feel it at the time, but soon after the show, I realized it was the end of the era,” he said years later. “Afterward, fashion became a branding, marketing thing.” The 1990s saw the rise of corporate fashion, the formation of the luxury groups, the domination of magazines by advertising dollars and advertisers’ demands.
Times always change, and it doesn’t require hand-wringing about fashion today to appreciate Mugler. But it’s certainly true that many of Mugler’s innovations beat his contemporaries and even his successors to the punch.
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