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Mugler Spring/Summer 1990 Rainbow Dress
FRANCE

Circa 1990 multi-color twill pieces sewn in an undulating pattern with several peek-a-boo nude panels in front and back. The KYOTO Museum in Japan has an example of the jacket from this collection. See TASCHEN's book: FASHION Une Histoire de la Moda du XVIII au XX siécle Volume 2, page 614

ABOUT THIERRY MUGLER (excerpts from Answers.com)

In 1973, he created his first label, Café de Paris, which featured dresses made of muslin and trimmed with fox. Mugler started his own brand and opened a shop the following year.

It is Mugler's imagery that most clearly identifies him within high fashion. His sources include Hollywood glamor, science fiction, sexual fetishism, political history, Detroit car styling of the 1950s, and various periods in the history of art and decoration. In this way, his work reflects the eclecticism of the art world during the 1970s and 1980s.

Women who favor Mugler are often those who find themselves encased in rigid materials such as leather, latex, rubber, plastic, plexiglas, and chrome. Therefore, it is no surprise that Mugler is a big favorite of those involved in the corset and fetish worlds.

The London-based House of Harlot often works with Mugler to create outfits and accessories for his catwalk shows. Few if any designers have used rubber in such a provocative and consequential way. He has also worked with everything from taffeta, lace, muslin, and raffia to coconut fibers, chrome, latex, and color-changing, temperature-sensitive plastic. Difficult to characterize and appearing to work in opposition to current fashion and intellectual trends, Mugler has remained a controversial figure on the fashion scene.

Mugler's designs are consistently body conscious. His clothes can be read as essays in the aesthetic potential of extreme proportions; shoulder widths three times head height, wasp waists, and panniered hips are among the repertoire of distortions and exaggerations of the human figure to be found among his designs. Mugler's annual collections, for both women and men, consistently aim to provoke through their challenging themes and flamboyant formal qualities.

Price
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Condition*
Excellent

Category
Clothes >> Dresses Day

Period Search
1980 - 2000

Measurements
size: 38 EU
bust: 36 in.
waist: 28 in.
hip: 38 in.
length: 34 in.

Specifications
Materials/Techniques: wool twill
Creator: Thierry Mugler

Photography
provided by The Way We Wore

Location
The Way We Wore
334 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles
CA, 90036
Phone: 323 937 0878

E-Mail: thewaywewore@sbcglobal.net

Dealer Ref. : private collection
Ref. : U09052091

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