KNOWN AS A FASHION ICON
Described as a “fashion icon”, Mugler was 73 years old. His family confirmed the death of the famous fashion designer on his Instagram page. However, Mugler’s cause of death was not specified.
ANNOUNCED FROM OFFICIAL PAGE
The sad news was announced on Mugler’s official Instagram page with the message “We regret to announce that Mr. Manfred Thierry Mugler died on Sunday, January 23, 2022. May his soul rest in peace”.
SUCCESSFULLY EXPERIENCED SUCCESSFULLY
Thierry Mugler, who reached the brightest point of his career in the 1970s and continued his career successfully after that period, had to struggle with the accidents he had consecutively in recent years and the health problems caused by them. After a sports accident, Mugler was on the operating table for plastic surgery and changed beyond recognition.
HE CAME TO THE WORLD IN FRANCE
Born in Strosbourg, France in 1948, Thierry Mugler became interested in drawing at a very young age. He even put his school into the background because of this love of drawing. At the age of 9, he became interested in classical dance. At the age of 14, he entered the Rhin Opera as a dancer. In the same period, he started to study interior design at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts.
AT 24 YEARS OLD, ATTRACTED ATTENTION
Thierry Mugler moved to Paris from Strasbourg at the age of 24. He started designing for a boutique. Two years later, he was preparing designs for fashion houses in cities such as Milan, London and Barcelona, as well as Paris.
FAMOUS BLACK DRESS
In 1973, he prepared his first personal design, Cafe de Paris. After that, she quickly climbed the career ladder in the fashion world and her reputation gradually increased. Many of the dresses he designed have been engraved in memories and gone down in fashion history. One of them was the famous black dress that Demi Moore wore to 1993’s Indecent Proposal.
THIS DRESS HAS BEEN TALKED A LOT
Mugler also designed many of Kim Kardashian’s talkative outfits. One of the most talked about among these was this nude dress that Kardashian wore at the 2019 MET Gala.
WEAR HIS DESIGN ON THE DAY OF THE MARRIAGE
Drawing attention with her theatrical style, Mugler dresses include Princess Diana, Cindy Crawford and Grace Jones. David Bowie was wearing an outfit designed by Iman the day he married.
PERFUMES ARE ALSO LIKED
Thierry Mugler was known not only as a designer of clothes but also as a perfumer. The perfumes Angel and Alien, which he designed, were both admired and found buyers at high prices.
LOOK COMPLETELY CHANGED
Besides fashion designer, Thierry Mugler was also known for his interest in the sport of bodybuilding. This passion of his led to an accident that resulted in a serious injury in 2020. From the 2010s, its appearance has also completely changed.
GYM ACCIDENT
Thierry Mugler said in an interview in 2019 that “the human body is an instrument of artistic perfection”. In an interview with actress Tippi Hedren, Mugler also talked about the terrible jeep accident she had at that time and the subsequent plastic surgery on her nose. After that, Mugler went under the knife many times and had plastic surgery. Mugler was in a gym accident in 2017 that left his face smashed. After that, he had another operation on his face.