In the midst of the fashion show, the fashion world shaken by the death of Mugler<

Haute Couture Week starts in Paris on Monday, shaken by the death of Thierry Mugler, ""Le Couturissime"" which had reigned in fashion in the 1980s and continued to delight international stars with its spectacular outfits to the marked silhouettes.

Kenzo who died in October 2020 of the COVIR, Alber Elbaz also carried by the COVID in April 2021, Pierre CARDIN deceased at the end of 2020, Virgil Abloh who died of cancer in November at only 41 years old, Nino CERRUTI died on January 15 and now, ThierryMugler: orphan of its legendary creators, fashion is again in mourning.

After his sudden death, tributes are raining from all over the world, figures from fashion, music and politics.

""Rest in peace, Thierry Mugler,"" wrote the Superstar Beyoncé, with a black and white photo of a smiling Thierry Mugler, one of her official website, accompanied by many images of her bearing the outfits of the designer.

The singer Diana Ross shared on Twitter a photo with the French creator during one of her fashion shows in Paris in 1990, with these words: ""You will miss me, Thierry Mugler, it was a wonderful moment in our lives"".

""I retain from Thierry this strength to break the walls between the disciplines: fashion with a cinematographic dimension, the show,"" said French creator Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, while Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin, the nephew of Pierre Cardin,hailed the memory of a ""talented creator"".""My uncle"" loved his creativity and his strong personality "".

""Thank you for the incandescence, the plume, the joy, the grandiose,"" reacted the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot.

The artistic director of Mugler, the American Casey Cadwallader, also paid tribute to him, on Instagram: ""You have changed our perception of beauty.""

Creative madness

According to Thierry Mugler's press secretary, Jean-Baptiste Rougeot, the death of the great designer, who had transformed himself physically in recent years and was now called Manfred Thierry Mugler, occurred unexpected on Sunday afternoon.

He still had projects and had to announce new collaborations at the start of the week.

Witnesses of its lasting popularity, the crowds crowd in Paris to regain its exuberance and its creative madness, celebrated at the moment at the Museum of Decorative Arts.

Intitulée ""Couturissime"", cette exposition invite jusqu'à fin avril à sortir du monde virtuel et repousser les limites de la mode commerciale et uniformisée. On y retrouve aussi des costumes créés pour le clip ""Too Funky"" de George Michael avec son défilé débridé de certaines des plus grandes top models du début des années 1990.

""Thierry Mugler will have made fashion a total work of art, creating imaginary worlds where to give creation his most absolute freedom.(...) En près de quarante ans, il aura, sans galvauder ce mot, +révolutionné+ notre expérience de ce que sont le vêtement et le corps"", a salué le musée des Arts décoratifs lundi.

Corseted sizes

Né à Strasbourg en décembre 1948, Thierry Mugler avait démarré dans la danse avant d'arriver à Paris à 20 ans puis avait créé sa propre griffe ""Café de Paris"" en 1973, avant de fonder un an plus tard la société ""Thierry Mugler"".

Its structured and sophisticated silhouettes had quickly imposed themselves. La ""femme Mugler"", aux épaules accentuées, décolletés plongeants et tailles corsetées, a fait le tour du monde, de Jerry Hall à Kim Kardashian.

The latter appeared among the latest photos of the Facebook account Manfred Thierry Mugler, in an intergalactic cowgall outfit that the creator had designed for her for Halloween.

Because if Thierry Mugler had withdrawn from fashion in 2002, the icons of today's pop culture, from Lady Gaga to Cardi B, still put on her archive outfits for special occasions.

Director at heart, he had marked the spirits by becoming a pioneer, in the 1970s, of parades at high spectacle.

Il s'était plus tard lancé dans la création de parfums, son premier modèle féminin ""Angel"" lancé en 1992 connaissant un très grand succès, jusqu'à disputer la première place des ventes au mythique N°5 de Chanel.

His fashion collections had also marked the political world, as when in 1985, the Minister of Culture Jack Lang was whistled in the National Assembly because of his COL Mao Signed Mugler, worn without tie. ""Thierry Mugler était un ami inestimable"", a réagi l'ancien ministre en se disant ""stupéfait"".

After the ready-to-wear man last week, haute couture, Parisian specificity, begins Monday with the highly anticipated Dior parade.

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24/01/2022 16:40:33 - Paris(AFP) - © 2022 AFP