Art & Fashion #6: Alaïa & Mugler

Alaïa, Thierry Mugler : Protected content decades of artistic affinities

“We have been very influenced by each other.” Thierry Mugler

Companions for a decade that they preempted stylistically, Alaïa and Mugler freely let their influences influence each other's creations. In the Protected content , both divinized the woman, proclaiming the return of glamour in glory and Hollywood as their inspiration, a world away from the folkloric fashions of the Protected content . They shared a common silhouette where majestic shoulders contrasted with choked waists and blossoming hips, memories and fantasies of the fashions of the Protected content and Protected content and the couturiers Adrian, Jacques Fath, Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga in the lead.

If Mugler had a flair for showmanship, orchestrating the biggest ever parade of his creations and fantasies at Zenith in Protected content , Alaïa had a taste for intimacy and perfection. But it's with a shared spirit that their collections respond to each other.

Azzedine Alaïa, the couturier and collector behind a vast and renowned fashion heritage, has preserved over Protected content Mugler-branded creations, some 40 of which are exhibited here in dialogue with his own archives.

Programme:
14h Protected content – Visiting the exhibition
15h Protected content – Drawing the exhibition
18h-18h30 – Sharing our sketches + drinks in the courtyard

Please bring your own art materials & sketchbooks

Tickets:
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