page_title: Thierry Mugler
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Thierry Mugler / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Thierry Mugler dress in Indianapolis Museum of Art exhibit
context_page_description: Manfred Thierry Mugler is a French fashion designer.
context_section_description: At the age of 24, Mugler moved to Paris, France. He began designing clothes for Parisian boutique, Gudule. At 26, Mugler, who was working as a freelance designer, began to design for a variety of large ready-to-wear fashion houses in Paris, Milan, London and Barcelona.
  In 1973, Mugler created his first personal collection called "Café de Paris". The style of the collection was both sophisticated and urban. Melka Tréanton, a powerful fashion editor, helped to launch his career. In 1976, she asked him to show his work in Tokyo for an event organized by Shiseido. In 1978, he opened his first Paris boutique at the Place des Victoires in the 1er Arrondissement. At the same time, Thierry Mugler launched a fashion collection for men.
  During the 1980s and 1990s, Thierry Mugler became an internationally recognized designer, and his collections garnered much commercial success. At the request of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, he completed his first haute couture collection in 1992.
  He designed the dresses of Viktor Lazlo for Hosting Eurovision 1987.
  He created the famous black dress worn by Demi Moore in the 1993 movie, Indecent Proposal.
  Mugler published his first photography book in 1988, Thierry Mugler: Photographer. This was followed by a monograph in 1999 entitled, Fashion Fetish Fantasy which assembles photos of his creations.
  Mugler also directs short films, advertising films and video clips. He regularly designs costumes for musical comedies, concerts, operas and the theatre (including Macbeth for the Comédie Française). He has worked with Robert Altman and George Michael (he directed the video for Michael's "Too Funky" in 1992). He also directed the first advertising film for one of his fragrances, Alien.
  Clarins has held the rights to his name Thierry Mugler since 1997.
caption: A dress by Thierry Mugler in an Indianapolis Museum of Art exhibit
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