The past isn’t just the present, but it is also very much the future at the Brooklyn Museum’s new exhibition “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime.” The Brooklyn exhibition will be the final stop in a five-city tour.
from the archives to wear to the CFDA Awards last week further shined the spotlight on the house. A similar dress from that collection is on view. His affinity for glamazons, fembot couture and futurism can be spotted in galleries designed by the Berlin-based artist and set designer Philipp Fürhofer.
Transition was integral to much of what Mugler did, whether that be a model disrobing on the runway to reveal a complicated construction underneath the outer layer, or a pair of Helmut Newton-shot photos that have the same effect. Among the robot-inspired looks on view is one made from stainless steel and plexiglass from the mid-’90s inspired by the “Maria” character from the 1926 Fritz Lang film “Metropolis.
Mugler’s robots glisten in the gallery, thanks to a black and steel gray backdrop twinkling with starry white light that evokes a city skyline. Visitors will also find dramatic corsets and other molded looks from Mugler’s 1989 “Buick Winter Collection” that drew inspiration from Harley J. Earl, an American automotive designer.
Spectacular as many of the designs are, the installations manage to be equally evocative. Fragrance is a central to one gallery that not only showcases Mugler’s sculptural and artistic perfume bottles, but it also emits select scents including Angel, and Alien. In honor of Angel’s 30th anniversary, the strapless luminous evening gown used for the first ad campaign is on view and its enmeshed lights periodically up their wattage.
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