There’s a lot of unspoken love on my part when it comes to Jun Takahashi’s label Undercover. Maybe it’s that Takahashi has been so consistent in his output of subversive surprise, genre-mashing collections and fantasy spinning in the twenty five years since he started his label whilst he was still at school, that it almost… Continue reading Uncovering Undercover
Category: Designers
Christmas Cheek
>> For the first time in (ever), I’ll be spending Christmas not with my family, not in London and not surrounded by animal fat and roast potatoes but in a land far away with my partner and most likely eating an inferior substitute to a Christmas dinner. That’s why I’m in two minds as to… Continue reading Christmas Cheek
A Collection of Us
Playing on our collective love of nostalgia, the word “archive” seems to have popped up quite a bit lately in a bid to perhaps look back in order to go forward. Topshop launched their Archive Collection back in July and Jigsaw’s current autumn winter campaign pits nineties Jigsaw pieces with current ones, to emphasise the… Continue reading A Collection of Us
Invisible Colours
One of my favourite stores to browse slash research for young Japanese labels is Wall in Harajuku’s La Foret (part of the H.P. France boutique group in Japan), not least because it’s right by the entrance on the ground floor and because the staff are always so brilliantly dressed. On this last trip, the thing… Continue reading Invisible Colours