MUGLER. French fashion designer Thierry Mugler died at the age of 73 on Sunday January 23. His death comes as he was to unveil new professional projects very soon. At the end of his life, the stylist chained surgeries and bodybuilding sessions.
[Mis à jour le 24 janvier 2022, à 10h14] Thierry Mugler’s death is a surprise, the 73-year-old had many projects and appointments planned for the next few weeks. The death of the French couturier was announced by his agent Jean-Baptiste Rougeot to AFP, who expressed the emotion of all his teams, in a short press release published on the fashion designer’s Facebook account. Thierry Mugler’s agent said that if the death of the businessman had occurred unexpectedly, the causes of death were “natural”.
Thierry Mugler, a designer with an immense career, had managed to have his uniqueness and his brand recognized throughout the world. The creator had moved away from fashion a little in recent years, to embark on the production of musical shows. He had taken a personal turn in the way of apprehending his health. As AFP reports, in 2013 he explained why he devoted himself, at over 60, to bodybuilding, cosmetic surgery and the intense practice of yoga: “The first emergency was to reclaim my body, exhausted through my years of dancing and sewing, like a rebirth, a way of erasing the past”, he said then, claiming to want to create his “new bodily home”.
In an interview that the French couturier gave to the 2017-2018 special issue of Number, he said he had “undergone a facial reconstruction following a serious gym accident which completely smashed my face”. It was this surgery which, according to him, had caused the stylist to click – a click that would push him to chain diets, bodybuilding, implants, facelift -: “My body is in perpetual construction”, he had confided to the fashion magazine .