Boundless Innovation. Outrageous Extravagance. A New Look At A Design Master: Thierry Mugler

"I have always tried to sublimate the body and to make people dream."

Galaxy Glamour, the most recent compendium on one of the 20th Century's most influential designers, is out now.

As a tribute to the so-called createur de shoc ("creator of shock"), I invite you to feast upon a series of clips demonstrative of a runway show in the truest sense of the word: a presentation at its most ostentatious, its most outrageous, its most theatrical.

While the couture division of Mugler's...