{"id":49292,"date":"2025-10-01T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49292\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:14:10","slug":"bringing-reality-to-fantasy-miguel-castro-freitas-reveals-his-vision-for-mugler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49292\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing reality to fantasy: Miguel Castro Freitas reveals his vision for Mugler"},"content":{"rendered":"

As it turns out, those movies are crucial for all sorts of reasons for the Portuguese Castro Freitas, 45, who joined Mugler at the end of March, his stellar r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/a> including work at Dior (with both John Galliano and Raf Simons), Dries Van Noten, Alber Elbaz\u2019s Lanvin, and, most recently, the behind-the-scenes creative directorship of Sportmax (which he says, allowed him to take on a lead role without the attendant pressures of being thrust into the spotlight \u2014 a perfect trial run for his new job). The DVDs are destined to be part of the invitations for his debut show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich one would you like?\u201d I\u2019m asked. \u201cOh, surprise me,\u201d I say, though secretly I am hoping for the 1961 Jacques Demy Lola, as I\u2019ve never seen it. (\u201cOne of my favourites,\u201d Castro Freitas tells me a bit later. \u201cHave you watched Demy\u2019s Bay of Angels? It\u2019s lovely.\u201d) There\u2019s a more crucial reason for having all these movies at hand, though: Castro Freitas says he shares Mugler\u2019s love of classic Hollywood, which proved an immediate way to find common ground with him. (The designer\u2019s all-time top three, incidentally, are Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve and Some Like It Hot.) Movies are both inspiration for his debut collection, entitled \u2018Aphrodite Stardust\u2019, and integral to his working practices more generally.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI like to have keywords on my mood board,\u201d explains Castro Freitas. \u201cThey evoke the mood of the collection [as much as the images] \u2014 they\u2019re very sensorial to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo: Valentino Barbieri\/ Courtesy of Mugler\"Showgirls<\/p>\n

Showgirls across the decades are a big part of his thinking for the collection.<\/p>\n

Photo: Valentino Barbieri\/ Courtesy of Mugler<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to have keywords on my mood board,\u201d explains Castro Freitas. \u201cThey evoke the mood of the collection [as much as the images] \u2014 they\u2019re very sensorial to me.\u201d On the mood board at the moment, much inspired by his cineaste interests: Kitsch Glamour, Stardust, Poetic Camp, Nocturnal and Purist Maximalism, to give you just a few, all of them pinned up alongside images of classic Mugler, such as a Helmut Newton photo of a star-spangled, bodysuit-clad Eva Herzigov\u00e1 looking like a showgirl \u2014 showgirls across the decades are a big part of his thinking for the collection \u2014 as well as the likes of hip-jutting Jacques Fath cocktailania, Judy Garland, spooky Hans Bellmer artwork, the corseti\u00e8re Mr Pearl, \u201990s Martin Margiela (bet you weren\u2019t expecting that), Jayne Mansfield (he loved the recent Mariska Hargitay documentary, and he\u2019s obsessed with Mansfield\u2019s former home, the now demolished Pink Palace), and Guinevere Van Seenus in a scarlet-draped and crushed mimi-crinoline Galliano dress shot by David Sims in 1996 (bet you weren\u2019t expecting that either).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As it turns out, those movies are crucial for all sorts of reasons for the Portuguese Castro Freitas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33305,146,85,46,5345,38147,38146],"class_list":{"0":"post-49292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-creative-director","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-latest","13":"tag-miguel-castro-freitas","14":"tag-mugler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}