Singer Cindy Sander spoke this Monday with our colleagues from Paris on the death of her friend and spiritual father, Thierry Mugler.
After paying tribute to him on Instagram, the interpreter of butterfly of light revealed a little more about their special relationship: “It’s unimaginable to lose him. He was traveling a lot lately, in Berlin, Paris, Miami, he had ideas all the time. He has always been in great shape, we had spoken on his birthday on December 21 and then during the holidays. We still had lots of projects together.“
The couturier had been able to put his creativity, and his money, at the service of the singer to relaunch her career after her mixed debut at The New Staroffering him the lead role in the musical The Wyld, staged in Berlin, the city of the creator. “I have no words to thank him, I owe him so much. He changed my life. He made me beautiful both inside and out, he gave me back my self-confidence. When all the doors closed, Manfred was the only one, forgive me that term, who had the balls to believe in me and give me my chance, she said before continuing, When I I met for the first time, I was a little country girl, chubby, my teeth weren’t very nice, neither was my skin… He spent a lot of money for me, gave me the best coaches. He transformed me, he Muglerized me. He set me apart, as he was apart. He was a visionary and knew how to beautify women.”
Thierry Mugler still had great ambitions for his protegee and even considered a return to France: “We had a project together at the start of the health crisis, we were preparing beautiful things. He was always very proud of me. He was very clever. He made me pass for a Quebec singer by having my songs listen to the producers French to prove to them that they just had preconceptions about my name and my image. He wanted us to come back in force in France. I would have liked to close this circle with him so much…”