Number (N)ine Hickory Pain Denim 2008 Spring/Summer “Birds”

Miyashita was keen to communicate with his spring collection (showing in an old convent ‘n’ all), and that wasn’t the only incongruity. There was subtext of reconfigured militarism in the jacket with Napoleonic frogging and the soldiers caps, but soundtrack featured lullaby versions of some of Nirvana’s most aggressive numbers delicately tapped out on a xylophone, and Miyashita obligation offered the flannelette pajamas to go with the music. Or at least that what they looked like. The designer affection for Kurt cobain has been thoroughly exercised over the past few seasons. Here, the grungy knit layers of his latest presentation—T-shirt over long sleeves, bondage bum-flap over leggings, droopy, worn-out bits and pieces in a palette limited to gray,black , and beige— elaborated on the affection over and over