The Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris is hosting an exceptional exhibition called “Thierry Mugler – Couturissime” until April 24, 2022. It is through the multiple costumes, photographs and accessories that the public will have the chance to discover the atypical career of this couturier whose work revolutionized the fashion world. Get ready to retrace the history of haute couture.
The essential figure of Thierry Mugler is honored this autonomous in Paris. The Museum of Decorative Arts is hosting the exhibition “Thierry Mugler – couturissime”, designed by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This event is an opportunity to discover or rediscover the work of the creator from 1973 to the present day. Between heightened creativity and artistic revolution, the history of haute couture will no longer be a mystery to you!
Fashion, seen differently!
The exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris recounts the life of the couturier in an original way. Following a thematic route, the museum works to discover this universe through various digital performances and extraordinary installations. Like the incredible staging of the couturier during his fashion shows, the scenography of the exhibition is spread over two levels and unfolds a fantastic futuristic route. The scenography actually adapts to the incredible effervescence of the couturier’s life, revolutionizing the way in which haute couture could be staged. The visitor can thus be immersed in a real “parade show” where exuberant silhouettes and avant-garde costumes ensure the show.
Physical metamorphoses and other futuristic variations!
The first rooms of the exhibition retrace what constitutes one of the main visions of Thierry Mugler’s creation: metamorphoses. Man is, according to him, like the animal, the most fascinating being in our environment. This analogy made by the couturier reflects a desire to stage the specificities of the animal world with regard to the movements and characters of man. The fantastic creations of Thierry Mugler thus divert the classic vision that we have of the dressed man, he rewrites fashion according to a new language and gives men and women the possibility of metamorphosing for a moment. If the transformation can be animal, Thierry Mugler does not hesitate to turn to other variations and aspirations, such as robotics or science fiction. The futuristic character of Mugler’s work is a way of shaping fashion like a living creation in perpetual transformation. Beyond the famous “radiator belts” and “bumper bustiers”, a surreal language emerges where audacity becomes the watchword of creation. Boldness, moreover, was needed by Thierry Mugler who did not wish to confine himself only to the cogs of haute couture, his admiration for the olfactory universe led him to push his creativity further and to create in 1990 ” Angel”, her first perfume.
From fashion to photography!
The exhibition retraces the couturier’s desire to attack new territories, from couturier to scenographer, he also revealed himself as a photographer. From one discipline to another, Thierry Mugler’s path has taken shape and revolutionized each of his approaches. Photography must be understood as another way of conceiving space and staging. If the importance of the model remains, space or even architecture become the heart of Thierry Mugler’s creation.
Couturissime!
How not to be struck by the incredible modernity of the costumes and other accessories exhibited in the exhibition of the Museum of Decorative Arts. They are, in the eyes of the spectators, the result of a futuristic thought through which the couturier gave free rein to his imagination, in particular as in the emblematic clip “TooFunky” by Georges Michael, which the public will be able to discover during the exhibition, bringing together the most beautiful Mugler outfits. From each outfit emanates a creative emulation, a rhythmic inspiration dictated by excess. An excess of which we are not offended but well struck and dazzled. The exhibition reveals a sometimes overlooked facet of creation, namely the interest in staging, in the creation of a story and an atmosphere, in the vision of clothing as a tool for scenographic creation. This immersive exhibition reflects the original journey of a futuristic precursor and this imaginative fashion.
Thierry Mugler, then Manfred Thierry Mugler, born December 21, 1948 in Strasbourg and died January 23, 2022 in Vincennes, was a fashion designer and French fashion designer, designer of clothes and perfumes, as well as a director and photographer.
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