This is terrible news for the fashion world: Thierry Mugler is dead. His death on Sunday was reported by his agent, suggesting a disappearance “occurred unexpectedly“. For now, it seems that the late 73-year-old creator died of natural causes. The artist had surprised the general public lately with his physique, on which he had sincerely confided.
Thierry Mugler has never hidden having been a fan of cosmetic surgery, a practice discovered after a life hazard. “I underwent facial reconstruction following a serious accident at the gym that completely smashed my face. My body is in perpetual construction (…) There came a time when I said to myself: let’s put things in order, to go further and higher“, he had thus confided in 2017 in Male Number.
The designer, who had called himself Manfred Thierry Mugler for a few years, had been partially disfigured in the face and had “benefited“opportunity to make voluntary changes to one’s appearance.”Let’s say that there were occasions, with the accident as much as to do, instead of going back to surgery to remove steel pins, I thought why not. Because it makes sense. I like to transform and arrange people. It makes sense in my search for architecture“, he added on the set of Day-to-day, in 2021.
According to his press officer Jean-Baptiste Rougeot, Thierry Mugler still had projects under his arm, he who had multiplied various artistic creations since his retirement from the world of fashion in 2002, in particular with the Mugler Follies, and was to announce new collaborations earlier this week. Currently, Thierry Mugler is to be discovered through the Couturissime exhibition, presented at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. To celebrate the creator, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – MMFA – produced and toured this unique retrospective, which traces the singularity of the man who revolutionized haute couture and perfume.