Miley Cyrus followers, set your calendar alerts: The singer is releasing her new album, One thing Stunning, on Could thirtieth. Her ninth studio album will characteristic 13 authentic new tracks—in addition to a visible movie directed by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, and Brendan Walter, with further cinematography by Benoît Debie.
Working along with her longtime stylist Bradley Kenneth, Cyrus’s forthcoming visible album can 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 basic and up to date aesthetic. “The style path 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 appears to be like replicate that very same vitality. For me, it was about translating the music by 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 along with her, simply to pay attention whereas she’s recording, and that’s once I begin imagining and dreaming up the appears to be like,” he says. One thing Stunning had a transparent cinematic focus, so Cyrus and Kenneth then zeroed in on archival fashions—pulling classic designs from labels equivalent to Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Bob Mackie to play up the album’s ethereal and otherworldly really feel.
“The appears to be like on this mission span such a variety of style historical past,” says Kenneth. “We pulled from designers who’ve been a part of Miley’s type story all through the last decade I’ve been working intently along 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 along with her.”
A particular part of the mission was working with the group at Mugler: Cyrus and Kenneth pulled quite a lot of archival appears to be like from the enduring French designer. “We really maintain the document for the biggest assortment of Mugler archives ever despatched to a single particular person, which remains 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 fantastic manner, which felt excellent for this mission.”
