Kylie Jenner’s three latest red carpet looks have all had one thing in common: they were all plucked directly from late French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler’s archive. Before he passed away earlier this year, Jenner’s older sister Kim Kardashian caught his eye and became somewhat of a muse to the designer. He was the man behind her wet-look, crystal water droplet 2019 Met Gala dress, and whilst Kim has since ditched Mugler for Balenciaga, Kylie seemingly can’t get enough of his 90s collections.
In recent years, more and more celebrities have turned to 80s and 90s runway looks over the latest season’s collections. Before Kim and Kylie unlocked the heavily padlocked door to Mugler, Cardi B pipped them to the post in 2019 when she wore the infamous ‘Birth of Venus’ dress, originally modelled by Nadja Auermann for Mugler Couture AW95. Cardi B herself formed a friendship with the designer and continued to pull from the archive, paying tribute to him upon the news of his death: “Mr. Mugler was one of the FIRST designers to take a major chance on me," the rapper wrote on Instagram, "allowing me to wear one of his ICONIC archive pieces for my Grammy red carpet look in 2019.”
