PARIS (AP) — The fashion industry is deep in musical chairs this Paris season, and Thursday’s spotlight swung to a Mugler debut.

Miguel Castro Freitas — Portuguese, Dior-honed, and a little-known name with a precise hand — took over a house built on shock and silhouette, and chose not to whisper. He hit the volume.

In recent seasons, Mugler has been a red-carpet magnet — Beyoncé , Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa among its regulars, capped by Zendaya’s viral “Maschinenmensch” armor moment.

The venue set the tone: a sensual concrete underworld — warehouse/parking-garage bones — softened by velvety, carpeted seating. It felt illicit yet plush, a fitting stage for a label that made club-ready futurism a couture proposition.

Thierry Mugler’s DNA is no small inheritance: 1980s brav

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