Unable to present the collection in Paris this season, designer Takahiro Miyashita confesses to wanting to recultivate the grandeur of showing his designs, stating “I think diversifying the way of presenting the collection has definitely been a constructive opportunity for designers,” in a pre-written Q&A. Titled “The Era,” the collection confronts the process of dressing in the ever-changing presented. Bolstered by the influence of the “Fifth Beatle” Billy Preston, garments are visualized through the same colorful, free expression of rhythm and blues. 

Consolidated in a lookbook and film, models are only seen from behind wearing brightly-colored balaclavas, punctuating “the back has become the new front.” While the silhouettes are similar, remodeling only changes through material remodeling in sweaters and lack of head covering. “[I find] certain redundancy meaningful in garments,” said Miyashita, proving that it may not be a total faux pas to reinterpret general essentials. This reinterpretation marks outerwear – bombers and flight jackets feature a zipper running diagonally across the back, the same zipper feature appearing along the inner length of the left leg on trousers in every look in the lookbook. Like the music of ‘60s America, a period defined by what Miyashita describes as ‘free intuition,’ the designer leaves room for more adaptation of the tradition, ensuring that his mode of creativity will always serve to be odes to the classics.

Watch the collection film below.