Mugler F/W 12.13 Paris

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[Squizree]

If you ignore the fact that this is Mugler, then it's very likeable. I really like the slicing and dicing, it's cool, but I feel that it's the only thing that Nicola has. And since this is Mugler, a house with loads of history, it's a little hard to like it.

 

[Tentacl Ventricl]

If you ignore the fact that this is Mugler, then it's very likeable. I really like the slicing and dicing, it's cool, but I feel that it's the only thing that Nicola has. And since this is Mugler, a house with loads of history, it's a little hard to like it.

Actually, you're right. I like the slicing and dicing too. Perhaps it's about in coming here after DVN it just feels so refreshing and stimulating of the senses and kinda like I'm looking at the right century. We gave Nicola a lot of stick on here didn't we. I will note though that I've not picked up on him saying anything controversial attention grabbing like in the run up to last season. The PR job was to merely exercise a little more restraint in matters of PR. Minimal. I think I'd allow them to now say, ok job done, more press bombs. If that is they are really about being radical. Or was it just about a buck?

 

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[Boomer]

I like it!! Some of it is sort of Jetsons, but pretty cool...And I'm sure Gaga will order every piece again!! B)

 

[Deleted member 7575]

It's solid.

 

[lepetitcouturier]

I LOVE Gaga, but I hate this brand. But the thing is is that Nicola isn't even the designer, he's just the stylist, but he takes all the credit and press. And his tumblr is like his personal narcissism haven. But this collection was terrible. They stole ideas from McQueen (*ahem*makeup*ahem*) but it's awful. I hate the slicing. It's sad to see beautiful fabric being perverted and vulgar. And that dress that ended right under the model's crotch was absolutely disgusting. But to me this was a knockoff of McQueen and Ricardo Tisci's Givenchy in black and white with one pointless red dress and one ugly mustard yellow dress. A house with such beautiful and unique history has been destroyed. It's sad that Thierry Mugler himself turned into what he is now, but now this collection truly shows that his brand is over.

 

[Spike413]

What's this opinion going around regarding slashed fabric being this tragic, destructive thing? That's such a weird, twisted kind of view. I mean, for starters, there's one whole piece in this entire collection that can even qualify as being "slashed" (that long black and white dress with the open thighs). The rest isn't sliced or slashed at all, it's cut in a way that's sharp and angular and stiffened to stand away from a body...which can't be more vulgar here than it would be at any number of other houses who have also explored such shapes. I mean, for a designer to communicate a certain idea or mood, sometimes they have to cut fabric in a way that's kind of aggressive as opposed to delicate or reverential. And, of course, it's only fabric.

Just odd, really. Besides, Thierry did it too.

 

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[simons]

Not bad.. I thought McQueen, but Sarah Burton McQueen for some reason. Really liked the beginning, the white looks, but IMO it got messy in the middle and I really didn't like the all black looks at the end.. Is that the "slicing" everyone is talking about lol.. it looked to me like cut and paste fabric and came off flat.

 

[Zazie]

This is really their best collection so far, but that's not saying a lot, is it? I have no problems with any techniques, cutting, splicing, etc., but this effort comes across as stiff and forced, like cardboard, probably the result of the designer designing with stylized sketches and the drawings are then interpreted into 3-D tailoring by the partner. In a skilled designer like Mugler, and more recently, Ricardo Tisci, both processes exist seamlessly in the mind, and Mugler is a master of materials - the result is shapely, sculptural, smooth, clever and natural.

I procured a few vintage Mugler pieces, most of them simple and they are all amazing in their hallmark Mugler cut (I hear there are also hideous commercial pieces out there..) - no other designers could deliver such close to the body clothes with such ease and intelligence. I haven't come across another designer like Mugler. Mugler is a genius this way, a master of 3-D imagination, not just for these ostentatious curves, cutouts and flamboyant shapes.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Better. I like the white: very futuristic.

 

[kiddokiddo]

Not the worst coming out of these guys...but I always get the "student thesis collection" feeling of a Central Saint Martins show being done by really good tailors. And it is not what Mugler, the house is about

 

[Deleted member 1957]

@ least its less Gaga

 

[Heroin_Chic]

Whats up with those "tampon sleeves" in the beginning!?!

 

[lelaid]

i like the dresses but alot of it reminds me of the last few givenchy collections...

 

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[Donatello89]

well i like the fact that he goes deep inside design there !