Casey Cadwallader's energy feels rambunctious when he Zooms in from Paris, his silhouette framed by 19th-century rooftops outside his Galerie Royale office. At the time of his interview, it's been a month since Mugler's latest show, autumn/winter ‘22/’23, a nearly half-hour rave-style extravaganza which currently sits at 30 million views on Instagram. It's morning, and by his visibly peppy demeanour, you can tell the brand's creative director is still feeling the buzz.
“I must say, it's taken me a little while to recover from it. Mentally, I think it was full of so much risk to do that, it was a real challenge,” he says.
At the show, models Adut Akech Bior, Paloma Elsesser and Amber Valletta, as well as Venezuelan musician Arca and viral comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, wore pieces made of leather, lace and Lycra, which rendered them modern vixens, and were trailed by cameras on dollies broadcasting their every move to TikTok and Instagram. It was a celebration of confidence that encapsulated Cadwallader's liberated
