Casey Cadwallader

Mugler announced Cadwallader’s departure on 25 March 2025, effective at the end of the month. His final collection had been Spring/Summer 2025, presented six months earlier; no Fall/Winter 2025 collection or later standing Mugler role is supported.

Mugler and Gentle Monster launched the Spiral 01 and Spiral 02 eyewear styles on 18 July 2024, joining Cadwallader’s spiral construction to a reference from the 1997 Les Insectes archive. The campaign involved Theo Liu, Colin Jones and Georgia Palmer. It was a two-style collaboration rather than evidence of continuous in-house eyewear manufacture.

Pre-Fall 2024 introduced the first formal mainline Mugler menswear collection of Cadwallader’s tenure and restored a buyer-facing pre-collection after the see-now-buy-now period. Earlier unisex pieces and H&M menswear were precedents, not the same durable line launch.

Mugler H&M launched globally on 11 May 2023 across women’s, men’s and accessories, combining Cadwallader’s spiral, illusion and body-conscious systems with remakes of founder-era designs. Torso directed the campaign film and a group of musicians reworked the house anthem. The collaboration’s menswear did not constitute the launch of continuous mainline Mugler menswear.

Mugler returned to a physical Paris runway on 26 January 2023 after the pandemic film cycle. The Fall/Winter 2022–23 presentation remained off-calendar and see-now-buy-now, retaining Torso and a cinematic production language even as live audience and runway movement returned.

Jimmy Choo and Mugler developed a joint footwear collection integrated into Mugler’s Fall/Winter 2021–22 system and released a shared campaign on 14 February 2022. Harley Weir photographed the campaign; Casey Cadwallader and Sandra Choi were publicly credited as creative directors. The project was a collaboration, not an in-house Mugler footwear division.

Mugler shifted its seasonal presentation and retail system into staged film releases and see-now-buy-now delivery from October 2020. Florian Joahn directed the Spring/Summer 2021 prelude; Torso directed Part 02 and the later film sequence. Cadwallader retained collection and overarching fashion authorship rather than sole film-director credit.

Mugler announced Casey Cadwallader as Creative Director for fashion on 5 December 2017, with a reported start of 1 December. The mandate was broader than Koma’s women’s-ready-to-wear office but did not extend to fragrance formulation.

Cadwallader led Mugler fashion from 1 December 2017 to the end of March 2025. He rebuilt the house through spiral denim, compression and illusion construction, inclusive casting, film presentations, restored wholesale cadence, leather goods and formal mainline menswear. His first public output was Fall/Winter 2018 and Spring/Summer 2025 was the final collection.

Cadwallader became Design Director of Acne Studios pre-collections in 2015 and held the role before moving to Mugler. Later profiles narrow the period to February 2015–February 2017, but the precise end and any consultancy interval require employer confirmation.

Cadwallader worked concurrently as Head of Design at Aztech Mountain for approximately seven years by March 2021. The consensus-based skiwear role remained institutionally separate from Mugler and should not be treated as a Mugler sports division.

During his second period at Narciso Rodriguez, Cadwallader served as Design Director for women’s ready-to-wear and accessories. The title is secure; public profile dates suggesting May 2011 to February 2015 remain provisional rather than employer-confirmed.

Cadwallader held senior womenswear responsibility at Loewe before 2010. Sources variously describe him as Head of Womenswear, Head of Women’s Ready-to-Wear Design or a leather-and-fur specialist; the role is secure, but those formulations should not be merged into a fabricated composite title.