For the final chapter of his trilogy, Miguel Castro Freitas imagines for Mugler a lush nature where animal, plant and eroticism intertwine in a fascinating metamorphosis.

At <a href="https://www.lofficiel.com/industry-trends/mugler-the-commander-ode-au-pouvoir-indocile-automne-hiver-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mugler</a> , nature is anything but innocent. It pulsates, unfolds, fascinates, and unsettles. With Naturalia X , Miguel Castro Freitas presents the third and final installment of his trilogy , A Trilogy of Glorified Clichés , a collection that explores the electrifying encounter between human animal instincts and the carnal desire of the living world. Underlying it all is a reflection by Georges Bataille on beauty, desire, and its desecration: a tension that permeates the entire collection and transforms clothing into a realm of impulses, metamorphoses, and transgressions. Psychedelic and direct, Naturalia X reconstructs the beauty of flora and fauna with a technical audacity that claims the avant-garde legacy of Manfred Thierry <a href="https://www.lofficiel.com/shopping/miguel-castro-freitas-signe-les-premiers-sacs-de-son-ere-chez-mugler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mugler</a> . Silhouettes traverse eras with anachronistic freedom: the organic lines of Art Nouveau become delicately micro-pleated peplums, while totemic silhouettes in sculpted mikado evoke the futurism of the 1960s. Here, nothing is quite what it seems: feathers are adorned with cheetah prints before disappearing beneath organza, synthetic hair cascades like strange fur, and silver sequins suggest aquatic depths.

On the body, the animal kingdom and the garden intertwine, becoming almost inseparable. A neckline evokes the anatomy of an insect, feline-patterned booties climb the legs, and a corseted green leather dress unfolds in a mossy drape. The collection thus juxtaposes the brutal and the fragile, like the translucent flowers fashioned from plastic bottles that emerge from a sculpted jacket with crocodile-like reliefs. Iridescent floral fringes compose a hanging garden, while three-dimensional flowers—embossed, flocked, or painted—appear like nocturnal blooms on black leather. This lush nature is never merely a backdrop: it becomes a force for transformation. &quot;It&#39;s a microcosm in metamorphosis where taboos dissolve,&quot; explains Miguel Castro Freitas. The question then becomes as much aesthetic as it is profoundly human: are we capable of contemplating the beauty of the living world without seeking to dominate it, or does this beauty frighten us because it confronts us with our own instincts? In Naturalia X , the animal is no longer external to the human. It surfaces beneath the skin, in volumes, textures, and silhouettes, to the point of making clothing a second nature.

The experience extends beyond clothing in a video and sound installation conceived by artist Casper Sejersen and composer Teho Teardo, with Björk, and projected onto 32 screens. Images and sounds compose a sensual landscape where the beauty and desire of the natural world meet a strange, mechanical allure. To give form to this vision, 28 project pieces also draw upon specialized expertise: Maison Février for feathers, Cécile Feilchenfeldt for knitting, Matisse di Maggio for latex, Charlie Le Mindu for hair, William Amor for ecological sculpture, and Anne Gelbard for materials experimentation. With Naturalia X , Miguel Castro Freitas concludes his trilogy, leaving behind a nature impossible to tame. Under his gaze, clothing becomes creature, the body becomes landscape, and desire, instinct. Following in the footsteps of Manfred Thierry <a href="https://www.lofficiel.com/industry-trends/mugler-celebre-les-metamorphoses-du-soi-avec-the-wardrobe-of-identities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mugler</a> , this collection celebrates a beauty that attracts, unsettles, provokes, and transforms . A final metamorphosis where the wild is perhaps no longer what surrounds us, but what lies dormant within us.

At Mugler, nature reveals its wild instinct

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