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THE NEW YORK TIMES
11-17-2022
THIERRY MUGLER: NOTHING IS EVER TOO EXTREMEEVER TOO EXTREME
Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too ExtremeSuzy Menkes
At the Brooklyn Museum, a tribute to fashion’s showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties.
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and who died earlier this year, famously hated retrospectives. “In the museum world, everyone knew he was against the idea,” said Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the institution that finally convinced Mugler to reconsider.
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