{"id":24265,"date":"2025-10-03T00:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/10\/03\/bring-reality-into-imagination-miguel-castro-freitas-reveals-his-vision-for-mugler\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:25:54","slug":"bring-reality-into-imagination-miguel-castro-freitas-reveals-his-vision-for-mugler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/10\/03\/bring-reality-into-imagination-miguel-castro-freitas-reveals-his-vision-for-mugler\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring reality into imagination: Miguel Castro Freitas reveals his vision for Mugler"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction to Castro Freitas<\/h2>\n<p>As it turns out, these films are crucial for the Portuguese Castro Freitas, which came to Mugler at the end of March. To take on a main role without the pressure associated with it to be put into the spotlight &#8211; a perfect test run for his new job). The DVDs should be part of the invitations for his debut show.<\/p>\n<h2>Inspiration from Classic Films<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;Which one would you like?&quot; I am asked. &quot;Oh, surprise me,&quot; I say, although I secretly hope for the Jacques Demy from 1961 <em>Lola<\/em> as I have never seen before. (&quot;One of my favorites,&quot; says Castro Freitas a little later. &quot;Did you see Demy&#8217;s <em>Angelshacht<\/em>? It is beautiful. \u201c) However, there is a crucial reason to have all of these films at hand: Castro Freitas says that he shares Mugler&#8217;s love for classic <em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em> Present <em>Everything about Eva<\/em> And <em>Some like it hot<\/em>.) Films are both inspirations for his debut collection entitled &quot;Aphrodite Stardust&quot; and more integral to his work practices.<\/p>\n<h2>Moodboard and Inspirations<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;I like to have keywords on my moodboard,&quot; explains Castro Freitas. \u201cThey remind the mood of the collection [as much as the images] &#8211; They are very sensory for me. \u201cAt the moment on the Mood Board, a lot inspired by his cineaste interests: <em>Kitsch glamor<\/em> Present <em>Stard<\/em> Present <em>Poetic camp<\/em> Present <em>Nocturnal<\/em> And <em>Puristic maximum<\/em> 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-Showgirls Across the Decades Are A Big Part of His Thinking for the Collection-As Well as the Likes of Hip-Jutting Jacques Fath Cocktailania, Judy Garland, Spooky Hans Bellmer Artwork, The Corseti\u00e8re Mr Pearl, &#8217;90s Martin Margiela, Jayne Mansfield, and Guinevere van Seenus in a Scarlet-Draped and Crushed Mimi-Crinoline Galliano Dress Shot by David Sims in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Castro Freitas As it turns out, these films are crucial for the Portuguese Castro Freitas, which came to Mugler at the end of March. To take on a main role without the pressure associated with it to be put into the spotlight &#8211; a perfect test run for his new job). The DVDs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[12544,12549,12546,12554,12558,12559,12550,12557,12553,12548,12541,12551,12556,10121,12552,12547,11309,12493,11915,12555,859,12543,12545,12542,3299],"class_list":{"0":"post-24265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-aphrodite","9":"tag-bodysuit","10":"tag-cinephilia","11":"tag-corsetmaker","12":"tag-crinoline","13":"tag-david-sims-photographer","14":"tag-eva-herzigova","15":"tag-guinevere-van-seenus","16":"tag-hans-bellmer","17":"tag-helmut-newton","18":"tag-jacques-demy","19":"tag-jacques-fath","20":"tag-jayne-mansfield","21":"tag-john-galliano","22":"tag-judy-garland","23":"tag-kitsch","24":"tag-martin-margiela","25":"tag-miguel-castro","26":"tag-mood-board","27":"tag-mr-pearl","28":"tag-showgirls","29":"tag-some-like-it-hot","30":"tag-stardust-2007-film","31":"tag-sunset-boulevard-film","32":"tag-thierry-mugler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24267,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24265\/revisions\/24267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}