Cultured Magazine

culturedmag.com 137 based artist. "Working with Samara is very exciting for me because it's really about letting a project take its own shape. We pushed each other to make these trench coats with all of her crazy materials vacuum-sealed into this ultrasonically-welded, double-layered PVC." Two of the coats the duo designed made it into the debut Fall 2018 collection—the one modeled by Wesson is a wearable piece of art akin to Scott's kaleidoscopic visual compositions of debris and everyday objects. Cadwallader and Scott work organically, with no expected rollout of pieces per season, debuting whatever works and feels right as a collection approaches. More coats along with "stretchy and sexy" pieces are in the works for Spring 2019. In just six months at Mugler, Cadwallader has already made his mark at the house and beyond. In May 2018, the team was in the midst of Resort 2019 week when the designer was asked to submit sketches for Beyoncé's On the Run II tour. The entire team switched gears to "Beyoncé week," creating five complete looks—three of which the pop icon wore on stops in London, Cardiff and Paris, where she was in head-to-toe leopard with a wide-brimmed hat, jacket and bodysuit. As Dan Thawley, editor-in-chief of A Magazine Curated By, explains it, "Before even putting on a runway show, Casey has been able to express his far-reaching vision for Mugler, which is less about riffing off vintage silhouettes and more about considering the radicalism that Thierry Mugler brought to fashion in the '80s. Casey is thinking about different body shapes, about technical finishing and new ways of mixing fabrications. His idea of the Mugler woman is more about the Mugler person, or the kind of individual that can embody a Mugler personality." "What I'm trying to do is to continue refining my formula—how much of it has to do with tailoring, fluidity, art and material innovation," explains Cadwallader. "The most important thing for me is sculptural tailoring, and that really comes from my architectural interpretation of form-making, which is inspired by Mr. Mugler's own hyperarchitectural form-making. That's one of the things I want the house to be most known for." Cadwallader's Fall 2018 and Resort 2019 collections for Mugler recall the brand's maximalist '80s aesthetic. PHOTOS BY ARNAUD LAJEUNIE, COURTESY OF MUGLER

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