Manfred Thierry Mugler, a French fashion designer, died at the age of 73. This was announced on his official Instagram account, but no further details about the reason for his death were provided.
The French designer was born in Strasbourg in December 1948 and moved to Paris at the age of 20. In 1973, he founded his own label, “Cafe de Paris,” a year before founding Thierry Mugler. He was also a fashion model and an acrobat.
With a mega-event at the Zenith concert venue in 1984, Mugler was one of the first designers to open the doors of a fashion show to members of the public. Working with materials such as latex, metal, and feathers, he pushed the boundaries of clothing design.
Mugler left the fashion industry in 2002 to concentrate on fragrances and costume design, reverting to his given name Manfred and undergoing a dramatic physical transformation involving plastic surgery and bodybuilding.
When Clarins suspended his RTW brand in 2002, he officially quit designing garments, but he stayed in the perfume industry. Mugler, the ready-to-wear label, made a reappearance in 2010. Mugler helped define ’80s power dressing, pioneered the celebrity-as-models phenomena, and debuted numerous new fragrances. The fashion world is grieving the loss of a giant.
