Miley Cyrus followers, set your calendar alerts: The singer is releasing her new album, One thing Lovely, on Could thirtieth. Her ninth studio album will characteristic 13 unique new tracks—in addition to a visible movie directed by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, and Brendan Walter, with extra cinematography by Benoît Debie.
Working together with her longtime stylist Bradley Kenneth, Cyrus’s forthcoming visible album will even usher in a brand new style period for the famous person, who has all the time used clothes as a visible extension of her music. This time round, they wished to fuse a traditional and modern aesthetic. “The style route is all the time impressed by Miley and the music,” Kenneth tells Vogue. “This period has a richness and depth that feels each trendy and timeless. The seems mirror that very same power. For me, it was about translating the music by means of the styling into one thing visible and elevated.”
Kenneth says the style moodboarding for the visible album started again when Cyrus was nonetheless within the recording studio. “I’ll generally go together with her, simply to hear whereas she’s recording, and that’s once I begin imagining and dreaming up the seems,” he says. One thing Lovely had a transparent cinematic focus, so Cyrus and Kenneth then zeroed in on archival fashions—pulling classic designs from labels resembling Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Bob Mackie to play up the album’s ethereal and otherworldly really feel.
“The seems on this undertaking span such a variety of style historical past,” says Kenneth. “We pulled from designers who’ve been a part of Miley’s fashion story all through the last decade I’ve been working carefully together with her. Whether or not it’s Mackie’s drama or Mugler’s highly effective silhouettes, these influences have all the time been there, simply evolving together with her.”
A particular part of the undertaking was working with the staff at Mugler: Cyrus and Kenneth pulled a wide range of archival seems from the long-lasting French designer. “We truly maintain the document for the most important assortment of Mugler archives ever despatched to a single particular person, which continues to be surreal to say,” says Kenneth. On the album cowl, for one, Cyrus sports activities Thierry Mugler’s “Spider” look from his spring 1997 couture “Les Bugs” assortment. “Manfred was impressed by the best way morning dew glistens on a spiderweb,” says Kenneth. “It’s a chunk that marries fragility and energy in such a ravishing method, which felt excellent for this undertaking.”
