From his highly cultivated purgatory between restraint and release, Takahiro Miyashita let multiple influences contaminate his creative petri dish this season. There was the classic Beatles movie, of which Miyashita said in his collection notes: “I think they were freely doing everything they wished for, but rarely had time for [themselves], thus [they] could have been quite suppressed too.
and the movies of John Cassavetes, all of which were gently referenced in the film that represented Miyashita’s performance of his wearable score. Zippers and safety pins provided a metallic percussion that he said was in part inspired by Judy Blame, while the exclusively monochrome arrangement reflected his consideration of asceticism-in-color as exemplified by OG Ann Demeulemeester.
The resulting melody blended the piratical and the punkish, playing britches against bikers and Breton stripe below a recurring beret high note.