The houses
01 piece
Thierry Mugler
Paris, 1973
Shoulders built like architecture, a waist cut to the millimetre.
Thierry Mugler trained as a dancer in Strasbourg and showed his first collection in Paris in 1973. For thirty years he cut the body like a building: shoulders built out, waists drawn in, corsetry made in metal and plastic.
He stepped away from fashion in 2002. The early-2000s pieces are a late, settled chapter of that argument.
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