Interview

Mihara Yasuhiro's Little Princes

Japanese menswear's rising star read between the lines of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Le Petit Prince—one of his favorite books—and what he found was the key to contemporary style: a mix of softly worn out leather jackets, notably the aviator and other military classics, grandfather vests over filmy tunics, baggy paint-stained pants and sarouels in T-shirt knit worn with cropped boots so distressed they resemble sandals. This was all in a sand storm of dusty colors and droopy, stretched out proportions.  The twist came in a collection of princely jewels (a collaboration with designer Husam el Odeh) in precious metals, rubies, and sapphires for military medals, regal necklaces and a  sterling silver crown finished in black gold plate and studded with a constellation of pearls.