"I have always worked so that women feel powerful", when Thierry Mugler returned to his career

"I have always worked so that women feel powerful", when Thierry Mugler returned to his career

CAUTION - Fireworks: The brilliant work of Thierry [Manfred] Mugler, who shook the fashion of the 80s, is exposed to the Museum of Decorative Arts until April.The opportunity to plunge back into multicolored dreams of a crazy scientist of the clothing, which mixed the bustiers of dragonfly with Harley's handlebars and invented more fabulous sirens than those of children's tales...The opportunity also to take stock of the past, in the present, and in the future, with one of the most creative spirits of his time.

Dear Manfred, you do not like, I think, the word retrospective.Nor the word exhibition ...

I prefer the idea of opera in nine acts.

“J’ai toujours travaillé pour que les femmes se sentent puissantes”, quand Thierry Mugler revenait sur sa carrière

What scares you in the retrospective term?

It doesn't scare me, it's boring!Then in Retrospective, there is "retro": a little too chronological idea.Chronology means nothing for my work.Because everything is in everything: it is the mixture that stimulates me.So let's move on!Everything needs a new eye.

Already very young, you run your clothes ...

Not just my clothes!Theater sets too, and a thousand costumes for my imaginary heroines - of which I wrote the destinies, and the replicas.

If you had not been an artist, which job "normal" could you have practiced?

Oh that !I would have been a tramp.Or I would have shown my ass on the beaches in Tahiti, I don't know ... Anyway, I would have been unable to do something else.Besides, I couldn't go to school.I stayed a month in high school: I was unable to concentrate.And above all to respect poorly dressed teachers.