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Fans of Miley Cyrusprepare the alerts in the calendar: The singer will publish her new album, Subject Beautifulon May 30. You will compose 13 new original themes, accompanied by a film directed by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter, with additional photography by Benoît Debie.
In collaboration with his usual stylist, Bradley Kenneth, Cyrus’s next visual album will also mark The beginning of a new stylistic era for superstarwhich has always used clothes as a visual extension of its music. This time, they wanted aesthetically fuse the classic and contemporary. “The fashion direction is always inspired by Miley and music,” explains Kenneth To Vogue. “This stage has a wealth and depth that make it modern and timeless at the same time. The looks reflect that same energy. My mission was to convey music through styling with something very visual and elevated.”
Kenneth says he started building his Moodboard For the visual album when Cyrus was still in the recording studio. “Sometimes I go with her, just to listen to her while she records, and that is when I start imagining and dreaming of the looks,” he says. Subject Beautiful He was born with a clear film approach, so Cyrus and Kenneth put the focus on file fashion, brands such as Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier and Bob Mackieto enhance the ethereal and supernatural air of the album.
“The looks of this project cover a very broad spectrum of the history of fashion,” says Kenneth. “We have resorted to designers who have been part of Miley’s style evolution throughout these ten years that I have been working closely with her. Either Mackie’s drama or Mugler’s powerful silhouettesthese influences have always been present, evolving with it. “
A special component of the project was to work with Mugler’s team: Cyrus and Kenneth selected several file looks from the iconic French designer. “In fact, we have the record of Mugler’s biggest archive designs collection Never borrowed to a single person, which still seems surreal, “says Kenneth. On the album’s cover, for example, Cyrus looks the” spider “look of Thierry Mugler from his Haute Costura collection Insects from the spring of 1997. “Manfred was inspired by How the morning dew shines on a spider web“, says Kenneth.” It is a piece that combines fragility and strength in such a beautiful way that it seemed perfect for this project. “
