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7 unusual facts about Thierry Mugler


Djimon Hounsou

A chance meeting with a photographer led to Hounsou being introduced to fashion designer Thierry Mugler, who encouraged Hounsou to pursue a modeling career.

Felipe Varela

As a student in Paris, Varela worked for international couture houses Kenzo, Dior, Thierry Mugler, Lanvin, Angelo Tarlazzi and Torrente.

Franck Sorbier

After working successfully for Chantal Thomass and Thierry Mugler, the French fashion designer Franck Sorbier, who was born in 1961, presented his first collection in 1987.

Jean Michel Karam

In this context, he launched the skincare brand IOMA, a collaboration between technology experts and dermatology and cosmetics specialists, of which the previous president of Thierry Mugler, Véra Strubi, presently a member of the board of directors.Today, Karam is Chairman and CEO of both MEMSCAP and INTUISKIN/IOMA.

Jeff Stryker

In her autobiography, Traci Lords describes him as “handsome but rather dumb looking” after he gave her scornful looks backstage during a Century City Civic Center Thierry Mugler Fashion show.

Thierry Mugler

In 2006, Thierry Mugler completed a project for the launch of Tom Tykwer's film "Perfume".

Toukie Smith

Smith started her career in the 1970s as a model, working for such brands as Chanel, Versace, Geoffrey Beene, Issey Miyake, Norma Kamali, Thierry Mugler, and Patrick Kelly.


Claude Montana

He started his own company The House of Montana in 1979, and quickly became a darling of 1980s high fashion along with Thierry Mugler, who also favored aggressive shapes and strong colours.

Emma Heming

Heming has also walked the runway for numerous fashion shows including Herve Leger, John Galliano, Paco Rabanne, Christian Dior, Chanel, Maska, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and Victoria's Secret.

Francisco Lachowski

Lachowski has walked for numerous shows including Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, dsquared2, Gucci, Roberto Cavalli, Thierry Mugler, Armani and many more and opened for shows such as Ermanno Scervinno.

Ivanka Trump

Since then, she has made her way down fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler.

Luke Archer

It has been noted in various interviews that famous designers that inspire Archer include: John Galliano, Thierry Mugler and the late Alexander McQueen.

Minx Nails

The company’s tagline is “Minx extends fashion to your fingertips” and designers including Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Gareth Pugh, Alice + Olivia and Thierry Mugler have featured custom Minx in their fashion shows.


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Cyrine Abdelnour

In 1992 Abdelnour started her modeling career and modeled for the fashion designers Feliciana Rossi, Zuhair Murad, Abed Mahfouz, Renato Balestra, Mireille Dagher, and Thierry Mugler.