![]() ![]() The combination is something that gives it real beauty. “I take that cute teddy bear and I give it a bit of a shock - that bit of violence. “In my work I want to express not something merely pretty or cute, but to find something behind it. It is a belief emblematized in the brand’s motto - ‘We Make Noise, Not Clothes’. ![]() Otherwise, it’s just cocktail dresses and bags - and that’s not interesting,” says Jun in an interview with Business of Fashion late last year. While his efforts of decades past presented a more hard-edged aesthetic, stemming from a punk/rebellious worldview, his couture has matured into an elegant, wildly imaginative output all at once sinister and playful, sensual and surreal and always with a hint of humor. From iterations of gothic punk, to rehashing 25 years of his ‘greatest hits’ in men’s streetwear for Spring 2016 (with a significant injection of Star Wars), to fairy tale nymphs and Victorian maidens in crowns of thorns and horned hats, UNDERCOVER has established itself as the one to watch at Paris Fashion Week.Īlways inflected with a captivating duality, Jun is most at home in a swirl of chaos and beauty – there is a pair of sneakers in the current Fall 2016 Men’s collection ‘Instant Calm’, with the words ‘Chaos’ and ‘Balance’ etched on the left and right sides respectively the sneakers, much like UNDERCOVER itself, lives in the space between those two opposing stances. Read anything about Jun Takahashi - the owner/designer/embodiment of UNDERCOVER - a term that comes up a lot is ‘ outsider’. ![]()
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