UNDERCOVER

THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MONOGRAPH ON THE WORK OF JUN TAKAHASHI, FOUNDER AND CREATIVE FORCE BEHIND UNDERCOVER, ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LABELS TO EMERGE FROM TOKYO’S URA-HARAJUKU SCENE. TRACING TAKAHASHI’S EVOLUTION FROM EARLY PUNK-INFLECTED DECONSTRUCTION TO A MATURE, EMOTIONALLY CHARGED DESIGN LANGUAGE, THIS VOLUME DOCUMENTS HIS SINGULAR ABILITY TO MERGE ROMANCE, REBELLION, AND CRAFTSMANSHIP. SPANNING MORE THAN A DECADE OF COLLECTIONS, THE BOOK EXPLORES UNDERCOVER’S PROGRESSION FROM RAW, COLLAGE-LIKE EXPERIMENTATION TO A REFINED YET SUBVERSIVE AESTHETIC THAT TAKAHASHI HIMSELF HAS DESCRIBED AS “SEXY AND FEMININE.” LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED, IT FEATURES RUNWAY IMAGERY, STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY, SKETCHES, GRAPHICS, AND COLLABORATIONS, OFFERING AN UNPRECEDENTED LOOK INTO TAKAHASHI’S CREATIVE PROCESS AND CULTURAL IMPACT. WITH IN-DEPTH ESSAYS BY LEADING FASHION WRITERS AND CRITICS, THIS PUBLICATION SITUATES UNDERCOVER WITHIN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY FASHION, MUSIC, AND ART, CEMENTING TAKAHASHI’S LEGACY AS A DESIGNER WHO RESHAPED JAPANESE STREETWEAR AND ELEVATED IT TO AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM. CONDITION: NEW COVER: HARDCOVER DIMENSIONS: 9.5 × 12 IN (24.1 × 30.5 CM) PAGE COUNT: 352 PAGES YEAR PUBLISHED: 2016 ISBN: 9780847848102