PRE-FALL 2024
This pre-fall 2024 Mugler lineup features Casey Cadwalladers first formal mens offering for the house.
We have mens buyers, style numbers, the whole thing.
In a way, Mugler mens was already a thing.
Cadwallader has expressed in the past that his fitting and creative process are fluid when it comes to who-wears-what.
All this said, the retail end of the industry still operates according to a binary system.
This is also the first pre-collection Mugler has released since resort 2021.
Now youre all caught up, so lets get to the clothes.
I dont want anything for Mugler to be dry, even a pre-collection, Cadwallader said.
The way he kept things juicy here was fabrication.
It still has to be decadent, Cadwallader said.
The lineups MVP is the tailoring, which retains Cadwalladers trademark razor-blade sharpness with a newfound sense of elegance.
Pre-collections, he explained, are an opportunity to explore the minimalist side of Mugler.
Its not boring, but extremely neurotically perfect.
In many ways, its about the news and how complicated the world is right now, he said.
He found himself gravitating towards the sinister side of Mugler.
His treatment of belting comes across as elevated rather than gratuitous.
Fashion has been toying with what sex sells means lately.
Maybe we are too.
