Mugler’s new designer, Nicola Formichetti was born to Japanese and Italian parents and raised between Rome and Tokyo which helped him develop his unique design aesthetic. “I want to invent new ways to excite popular imagination for a luxury brand such as the Mugler House,” said Nicola Formichetti. The designer played heavily with textures and fabrications using patent leather, neoprene, metallic brocades and wool, all fitted with attached velcro closures.
The collection had a distinct fresh, new minimal direction for fall with shocks of neon color against black used throughout. Formichetti sent out futuristic space warriors sporting full starship regalia, a model wore a head-to-toe dove grey uniform with an iconic emblem embroidered onto the suit. A molded plastic pink vest layered over a salmon pink T-shirt was worn with sleek neoprene trousers. Color blocked knits came in a black sweater inset with a cerulean blue triangle and paired with electric blue trousers. For evening, there were slim double-breasted suits in cerulean blue, shocking pink and chartreuse green accessorized with short leather gloves.
Mugler’s futurist fashion seemingly allow the wearer “the ability to become somebody else in the digital world,” said the designer after the show.
