For this collection, entitled “Femme Fatale Fellow,” Takahiro Miyashita imagined himself the total wardrobe that he thinks the women of his dreams would like to see him wearing. It was sort of like his Tinder image in the form of clothing, a pheromone-driving phishing expedition aimed at snagging the eye of some 100 percent compatible candidate to become Mrs. Miyashita.
So what can we work out about this elusive femme from looking at the collection? Certainly that she must love Nirvana. “We will always love you Kurt,” was etched onto the back of several pieces, and the clothes in which Kurt Cobain was photographed—his striped sweaters, a green cowboy print shirt, a tiger print sweater, a cardigan of fractured argyle diamonds—were translated, all black, into several others.
There was “Hurt” as well as Kurt: The music to Johnny Cash’s epically sad remake of Nine Inch Nails’s power ballad of regret was embroidered on the sleeves of carefully recalibrated mother-of-pearl buttoned Western jackets and shirts available in several cuts, plus pullover faux-jackets (unbuttonable to make ruining their line impossible) and translations of these pieces into rather fabulous nylon technical wear. The music also played down the legs of slim-cut, or pleated and drawstringed loose-cut pants, all black, and an overall or two.
This was, then, a beautiful but mournful collection: artistically deathly. To add to the flavor of mortality there were two Marlboro logo sweaters, one in gold Lurex, one in red wool: The menthol had not been delivered in time, but nobody likes menthol. And Miyashita had even designed a ring upon which was affixed a tiny trigger and functioning rotating chamber.
So if you are a Femme who likes the sound of this Fatale-flavored collection and WLTM the Fellow who brought it to life, then head directly to The Soloist. You just might make a great duo.
