Excerpt: March 12, 2022. UNDERCOVER. FALL 2022 READY-FOR-WEAR. TOKYO
"You have to admire Jun Takahashi's presentations, one of the most creative and interesting designers to come out of Japan in the last twenty years when he first showed at Paris Fashion Week in 2002, representing a mix of eclectic Western stylizations with unique Japanese aesthetics, he has always been an intriguing host of that lost-in-translation Japan ethos and its charm of emulating Western concepts of fashion. His brand Undercover maintains its street style reflection of neon Tokyo, in its manifestations of the gritty subculture of Punk, which over the many years as the significant counterculture it once was, its relevance ever since has been watered down, particularly in relation to fashion. Yet, Takahashi has been able to draw out elements of Punk aesthetics, redefining them as his own designs under the Undercover brand name.
As noted with other designers, the avant-garde is making a return to the runway, leaving behind the modernist, cleaner and tailored looks, for the deconstruction, asymmetrical styles. Possible testament to the times we are living in, where we may all be looking for that next counterculture in a tumultuous world, yet, it seems, so far, elusive. Takahashi, as the keen observer of past counterculture styles, may not be trying to set a precedent to what the next step in our rebellion against authority will be..."
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(A.Glass 2022)
Resort 2023 soon...
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