The Mugler Fall Winter 2024 Collection, Part 01, under the visionary guidance of creative director Casey Cadwallader, ushers in an era of dark glamour, reflecting a dystopian reality through the audacious lens of the brand’s sculptural heritage. This season, the collection explores themes of power, resistance, and the human experience’s metamorphosis, capturing the thrill of pleasure and the sensuality of skin within its designs.
FALL WINTER 2024.25 WOMENSWEAR COLLECTIONS
Cadwallader’s creations carve arcs around the body, creating silhouettes that simultaneously reveal and conceal, embodying strength and vulnerability. The palette is drenched in vampiric red, the deepest blacks, and accents of khaki, bringing to life glossy, fringed, and moiré textures that serve as a striking backdrop to the collection’s bold features. Plunging necklines, open backs, pointy collars, and rubber (not patent) bombé armor-like outerwear mark the collection’s distinct approach to fashion, fusing anatomical precision with the inanimate, displaying a union of man and machine. The ready-to-wear and accessories are adorned with metallic hardware, transparency, and luxurious fabrications, including shiny satin, welded rubber, velvet, waxed denim, laser-cut leather fringe, and oval cabochon-studded jersey, pushing the boundaries of traditional fashion.
For the first time, Cadwallader introduces a formal menswear line within the Mugler Fall Winter 2024 Collection, Part 01. This venture applies the house’s tailoring expertise to masculine silhouettes, reimagining menswear with elegant, monochrome finishes. Broad-shouldered coats with curved and bisected lapels, pleated tuxedo trousers with an asymmetric cummerbund, and stripe-quilted jackets that blend sophisticated fabrications with technical detailing, such as hiking trousers and two-tone engineered shorts, showcase the collection’s innovative approach to menswear.
The accessories collection expands its bold vocabulary with the evolution of the Spiral Curve 01 and smaller Spiral Curve 02 handbags in black-on-black fabrications, ranging from embossed crocodile and gunmetal to stone-washed denim. The Zenith shoulder bag, with its curved and trapezoidal shape, echoes the collection’s dark tones in embossed textures. Footwear makes a fierce statement with pierced pumps and patent or corseted leather boots, accentuated by chromed fanged heels.
Fashion photographer Zhong Lin captured the lookbook featuring models Baye Seye, Bradley Veragten, Colin Jones, Jay Pak, Olivia Palermo, Paul Philetas, and Lidia Judickaite. In charge of styling was Haley Wollens, with set design from Vincent Olivieri, and casting direction by Julia Lange and Max Maerzinger. Beauty is work of hair stylist Olivier Schawalder, makeup artist Lucy Bridge, and manicurist Alex Feller.
