Cannes made me think about projection—the way cinema throws light into darkness and creates worlds. I wanted that same magic but astronomical, ancient. The Tuvan-Sardinian fusion felt right because both cultures have such profound relationships with navigation and the night sky—Tuvan throat singers who map the cosmos in sound, Sardinian shepherds who read stars for centuries. Altan Mura isn't lost in the stars; she's charting them with the quiet joy of discovery. The brass instruments against indigo silk give me that McQueen-meets-observatory editorial I was reaching for. —Mira