Born (21th December 1948) and raised in Strasbourg, France. Since the youngest years he was showing a lot of interest for drawing, however as a child he was trained for a ballet dancer in the Rhin Opera (Opéra national du Rhin). He also get the education at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts. After graduating, in 1972 he moved to Paris to start working in a fashion boutique and parallel as a freelance fashion designer, which quite quickly became his major profession. As a part of celebrating the first year in the City of Light, Thierry Mugler represented his first personal collection called "Café de Paris" which has opened a lot of doors and accelerate his carrier. On a daily basis he was responsible for supplying variety of large ready-to-wear fashion houses in Barcelona, London, Paris or Milan. In 1978, he launched his fashion collection for men and opened his first boutique at the historical Place des Victoires in the 1er Arrondissement in Paris. Between 1980's and 1990's his carrier just went to the moon. It was hard to count all of sophisticated offers from all around the world which he consider to accept or reject, including David Bowie, George Michael, Madonna, famous costume for Cruella DeVille from 101 Dalmatines or Demi Moore's black dress from Indecent Proposal. Shiny fem-bots, fetish stuff, big shoulders/tiny waists costumes and lots and lots of inspirations from the natural world, other galaxies, and trans-humanism quickly became his trademark. Original, futuristic and extravagant approach to fashion gave him a title of internationally acclaimed fashion virtuoso. In 2003 Thierry Mugler disappeared from the front pages, catwalks and limelights, but not to rest on a farm with his Labrador. He regularly designs and supervises the production of costumes for videos which he direct, big concerts, theaters and operas.