As one of the most famous fashion designers of the 1980s and 1990s, Mugler does not live himself as an exhausted history book, no matter how popular culture iterates and evolves, from Madonna to Kim Kardashian and Cardi B, he has reached a two-way selection of various era symbols in life and after. Accomplish each other.

Unlike other designers who were active at the same time, Mugler was very keen to share his dynamics on social media, participate in magazine shoots and media interviews, and even after officially retiring from the operation of his personal brand in 2002, his name was still active in various music video shooting, video directing and stage art projects.

His Instagram profile is still clearly listed as having dabbled in a variety of fields: "director, stage concept designer, perfume creator, costume designer, photographer."

But these are not enough to sum up all his achievements, or at least need to supplement one identity: co-curator.

The exhibition Thierry Mugler: Couturissime is both Mugler's first attempt at yet another field and unlocks a new achievement in organizing a retrospective for himself.

In fact, as early as 20 years ago, Mugler was approached by a number of international heavyweight museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, and the V&A in London.

In a 2019 interview with VOGUE, Mugler said that traditional retrospectives are too obsessed with the past, and even "permeated with death."

The turning point came in 2014, when Nathalie Bondil, director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, flew to Berlin to talk to Mugler, who was working on the play, and he quickly agreed, changing the nostalgic tone of previous exhibitions.

Over the course of five years, under the direction of Bondil, the travelling exhibition by curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot in collaboration with Thierry Mugler himself. In 2019, Couturissime held its first exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada, and then moved to Germany, the Netherlands and France, attracting more than 1 million visitors, and the final stop of the tour was selected in the Brooklyn Museum, which is also the first appearance of this exhibition in the United States. Brooklyn Museum Senior Curator Matthew Yokobosky joins Thierry Mugler: Couturissime has added more exclusive attractions, in addition to the original more than 130 exquisite costumes, as well as precious accessories, manuscripts and photography, a new curated perfume gallery will also be unveiled here.

Even younger generations who don't know much about Mugler's life have been impressed by the Thierry Mugler look Kim Kardashian and Cardi B have done in public in recent years, and at the opening of this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, The appearance of Kylie Jenner and Julia Fox once again confirmed the legendary designer's influence in today's fashion industry, even if the design has been 20 or 30 years ago, but the creative richness and imagination of today's designers are still unsurpassed, Riccardo Tisci once said. He was one of the only true geniuses in the industry and he revolutionized the fashion industry.

Chinese designer Li Sensen also told us that supermodel Naomi Campbell's orange wig and see-through dress at Thierry Mugler in the 1990s was one of his earliest fashion inspirations.

As Thierry Mugler: Couturissime comes to an end, let us follow the wonderful installations and displays in the exhibition space to relive his charming creative vitality.

In the 1990s, Thierry Mugler's shows, which lasted for dozens of minutes, were spectacular, far more so than today's shows.

Whenever we recall Mugler's classic fashion moments, adjectives such as "dramatic" and "shocking" always come to our minds first, and the reason for this is that it implies the training and influence Mugler has received on the stage since childhood.

At the age of 9, Mugler began studying classical dance and became a professional dancer at the Opera national du Rhin at 14. Fashion shows are, to some extent, a medium for him to express his sense of the stage.

In his opinion, music, scenery, lighting, attitude, etc. All the tools conducive to storytelling are an integral part of the show.

Each model was like an actor on stage, navigating the costume and entering the character Mugler envisioned.

During his career as a fashion designer, Mugler has worked on shows and music videos for a number of artists, including Michael Jackson, Madonna, Grace Jones, David Bowie, and Beyonce.

In addition to star dressing, he has directed short films, commercials and videos as a director, designing costumes for musical comedies, concerts, opera and theatre.