“Improvised concepts” read text writ large across a sweeping cloak in #JunTakahashi’s #Undercover collection. It was both right and wrong. The collection, #Takahashi said, was about improvisation; but there wasn’t a concept. “The men’s is daily wear, rather than conceptual like the women,” he said, leafing through a tome published with Rizzoli that explores his extensive and acclaimed back-catalogue. “They’re clothes I want to wear.”
The improvisational part was due to the way in which Takahashi assembled the resembles, adding patches, text, and images to clothes drawn from utility and workwear, the biggest single influence across the entire #spring2017 #menswear season. Takahashi’s take was typically twisted — the seemingly random slogans applied, he said, like music lyrics to animate the surfaces. Sometimes, there was a feel of punk to their nonsensical, near-situationist placement: the words “offence,” “stability,” and “attack” subtitled images of an owl, seagull, and raven respectively, printed onto Cub Scout–style badges and affixed to a shirt. #Fashion