The Story Behind Karen O and Kenzo’s New Collaboration

The Story Behind Karen O and Kenzo’s New Collaboration

At the point when Kenzo's co-innovative executives Carol Lim and Humberto Leon began pondering out-of-the-crate approaches to breath life into their Spring 2018 battle, it's nothing unexpected that they swung to Yeah Yeahs frontwoman and long-term companion Karen O for a soundtrack. The combine has a long history of tapping their remarkably capable female companions—Lauryn Hill's unexpected execution at the Kenzo indicate last February springs to mind. "We've sort of constantly needed to team up on something yet never extremely made sense of it," says O.

The new varying media venture originates from the nonexistent sentiment between the dreams who propelled Kenzo's most recent gathering—spearheading model Sayoko Yamaguchi (one of Kenzo Takada's essential dreams in the 1970s) and writer Ryuichi Sakamoto (one of the prime supporters of the very compelling electronic music amass Yellow Magic Orchestra). Executive Ana Lily Amirpour, who made A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), which she called an "Iranian vampire spaghetti Western," built up the story with O (who additionally makes a brassy cameo in the film as a photograph partner) in view of Lim and Leon's fixations on the two Japanese symbols. "When I initially conveyed [the project] to Ana Lily I had around 100 thoughts, and she refined them down to something that is quite exquisite and basic." The nine-minute film delineates a picture taker (played by Alex Zhang Hungtai, some time ago of Dirty Beaches) as he diagrams the rush of feelings that originate from his lonely emotions towards a dream, all while exhibiting Kenzo's lively new gathering of garments, obviously.

Furthermore, the tune that O made for the film, a two part harmony with Michael Kiwanuka, impeccably catches the film's mixed depiction of imaginative creation. Sonically motivated by Shin Jung Hyun, who O calls the "Korean hallucinogenic adoptive parent of soul," while referencing Lim and Leon's affection for karaoke, "Yo! My Saint" is a lazy, winding soundtrack educated by the dreams' unmistakable looks. "When I saw photographs of Yamaguchi, they were striking and sort of operatic," which O says started a want to channel this acting into the soundtrack. "To the extent the style and the mold [of Yamaguchi and Sakamoto] is concerned, I think it educated the high dramatization that I needed to put into the music."