In 2013 and 2014, the couturier wanted “hustle“the art of the magazine by launching the”Mugler Follies” in a Parisian theater, transformed into a cabaret. Singular dancers from the filiform to the Botero model, ventriloquists, singer, fado singer, acrobats, unprecedented strength numbers: that was “long time“that he wanted to set up a review,”a free art, joy of living and exchange, without message, where everything is possible“, he told AFP at the time. “I don’t really miss fashion“, he explained then. “I do a lot more now: architecture, design, setting up a magazine, staging… When I was a designer, it was a daily staging offered to clients. Now it’s a narration, a story, shows, movies…“, explained the one who called himself Manfred Thierry Mugler.
“Architect” of his own body, Thierry Mugler has suffered several accidents in his life, partially disfiguring it. Faced with Yann Barthès, the creator had engaged in these reconstructive operations which allowed him to display a new face on the set of Day-to-day in 2021, when the book about his career was coming out, Couturissime. “I underwent facial reconstruction following a serious accident at the gym that completely smashed my face. My body is in perpetual construction“, he also confided in 2017.