Fashion Icon Thierry Mugler Has died
Thierry Mugler‘s face project form of art. Mugler, the founder of the French fashion house Mugler, had underwent several facial reconstructive surgeries in his life before his death in 2022.
Mugler, whose full name was Manfred Thierry Mugler, died on January 23, 2022 of “natural causes.” He was 73, died on Sunday January 23rd 2022.
Lady Gaga wearing Mugler
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Mugler launched his eponymous fashion house in the 1970s and became known for his dramatic, avant-grade designs. He retired from the brand in 2002 but returned in 2013 as its creative adviser. Throughout his career, Mugler has designed for dozens of celebrities including Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian, who paid tribute to the late designer in an Instagram post on January 24, 2022.
What happened to Thierry Mugler’s face?
What happened to Thierry Mugler‘s face? Mugler told Interview magazine in 2019 that he’s undergone several facial reconstructive surgeries after he suffered various accidents in his life. The first major accident was when he crashed his jeep, which left his nose “completely destroyed.” When he suffered a second accident this time, with a motorcycle and steel cables—Mugler asked the surgeon if he could make the procedure more “fun” by adding a piece of bone from his hip to his chin and altering his face so he could look more like a “warrior.”
“[Transforming my facial features] was all about fun and pleasing myself. And opportunities. I had several accidents. One was crashing in a jeep, during which my nose was completely destroyed,” Mugler told actress Tippi Hendren at the time. “Another motorcycle accident involved steel cables, after which I had to remove a piece of metal from my leg. There was all this anesthesia and stuff, and I could never motivate myself to go back to the hospital becauseI’m so busy, and the surgeon was screaming at me, because they had to take this piece of metal out of my leg.”
He continued, “So I said, ‘Let’s find a way to make this fun!’ I asked another surgeon if he could do some things to my chin, and then I was happy to get the bloody anesthesia. He actually took a piece of bone from my hip and put it on my chin, so I don’t have any plastic or silicone. It’s all bones. I wanted my face to represent progress, because after years of being a thin, charming dancer, I wanted to be a warrior. I’ve done so much in my life. I’ve fought so much. I’m a superhero, so it’s normal to have the face of one.” Mugler also explained that he wanted his facial reconstructive surgery to be as natural as possible, which is why he wanted to use bones to reconstruct his face instead of silicone or plastic. “I don’t know what normal even means. I think nature is endless and beautiful, so I try to occupy nature and never contradict it. Silicone, these cheap things, are ugly,” he said.
In an interview with Yann Barthes in 2017, Mugler revealed that he viewed his facial reconstructive surgeries as “architectural research” that helped him “to go further and higher.” He told Yann Barthes in 2017: “I had a facial reconstruction following a serious gym accident that completely knocked my face down. “My body is in perpetual construction.” “My body is in perpetual construction”, he said via The Sun. “The physical mutation was a sort of return to myself, a repairing and reconstruction too.” RIP
