Fashion designer and photographer, Thierry Mugler (1948-) founded his own label in 1975, having designed his first line two years earlier. Unfortunately his fashion house did not survive the 1990s, but Mugler has continued to create outlandish pieces, including all the costumes for Beyoncé Knowles’s 2009 ‘I Am…’ World Tour. Here we examine a Communist-style jump suit in grey gabardine he designed in the early 1980s.
Mugler’s work has an individual style, yet one firmly grounded in the 1980s. He was known for almost harsh, angular designs, often with wide padded shoulders and cinched waists.
- The heavy un-patterned grey is typical of his choice of colours and matches the theme perfectly.
- Here he looked back to jumpsuits work by Communist workers during the 1920s and ‘30s, but the design also hints a world of the future and robots, two other themes that run through his work.
- Seen as too extreme at the time, as well as very expensive, these jumpsuits are rare today.
Price Guide: £3,200-3,800 ($6,500-7,500)
Image courtesy of Kerry Taylor in association with Sotheby's.
