There are not many blue stars and Regulus is the brightest – it’s also the only one on the Ecliptic – the most prominent part of the night sky. However, I’m confident that the star was Regulus aka Cor Leonis – the heart of the lion. Nobody appears to have asked Thierry Mugler the name of this star or sought to identify it and sadly, the iconic creative passed in January 2022. The designer Thierry Mugler was inspired by sci-fi, exotic insects, Golden Era Hollywood, superhero comics and intergalactica but he had a thing for a particular blue star: it was sculpted into a huge talismanic golden ring he always wore, the subject of his first bit of body art and the concept behind his bottle design for Angel perfume.ĭescribing his difficult early years to Fashion, he said that as a child, he often slept outdoors but felt supported by the constellations.” I would watch the skies at night to look for the blue star and know then that I had to hold on.”
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