The fashion world has lost another legend.
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Manfred Thierry Mugler, the French fashion legend who was equal parts designer, couturier, and showman, has died at age 73. His team announced the news on Instagram on Sunday without mention of the cause of death. A master couturier and longtime perfumer, Mugler was behind some of the most over-the-top, and often otherworldly, moments in fashion history.
At the same time, Mugler made waves with his perfume Angel—which went on to become one of the best-selling fragrances of the 20th century—and frequent embraces of queer iconography. “The outwardness of designers embracing being gay wasn’t then a thing,” editor and stylist Paul Cavaco told the. “People knew but you didn’t really talk about it. It was considered not chic. And here he was sending drag queens like Lypsinka down the runway.
Mugler retired in 2002, and after a series of financial losses, the French cosmetics company Clarins shuttered his label’s ready-to-wear division the following year. Still, Mugler remained a towering force in fashion, and found a second calling as Beyoncé’s touring artistic director in 2009. Soon after, he developed a passion for body building, prompting the—who at that point had adopted the first named Manfred—as a “240-pound spectacle of muscle and nipple and tattoo.
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