Showing posts with label Undercover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Undercover. Show all posts
Dust off your tailored suits because Undercover says they're back in fashion. Or leave those cobwebs on your suits, Undercover embossed their suits with the pattern, which heightened the creepy and scary images that were emblazoned those mostly-black clothes. Tailoring was especially strong, with austere silhouettes which belied the images from horror movies from decades past from Dracula to Mr. Hyde.



RUNWAY: Undercover SS20

Shortly after Pierpaolo Piccioli unveiled a collaboration with Undercover for Valentino's FW19 collection, Undercover debuted a collaboration with Valentino! It was quite nice that there was reciprocity between the two collaborations and it was not one-sided like so many collaborations are. The Valentino Undercover garments were in the final parts of a collection that saw the main line traverse through the world of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. All the while, there ran an equally sinister vibe throughout the collection with masked men in Undercover's signature street-style friendly aesthetic while prints of flying saucers and Beethoven became the connective thread that stitched the Valentino and Undercover Fall/Winter 2019 collections together.



RUNWAY: Undercover FW19

A tide of references flooded Undercover's Spring/Summer 2019 from questionable Native American headgear to more apt references to anime and pop-art. All of this underscored a sense of wandering, trying to find one's way and figuring out one's identity, which in this day and age seems quite a powerful message.



RUNWAY: Undercover SS19

The Soloist's Takahiro Miyashita and Undercover's Jun Takahashi came together with a purpose to see what the result would be if they chose a theme on duality and each would design one half - think of it as "one picks yin and the other picks yan". The result was an explosive show that was a feast for the senses. The clothes, shown below, showed what each designer thinks of the future. One, Miyashita of The Soloist, sees a dark and ominous future of hooded warriors in nouveau tailored suits, while Takahashi opted for one of optimism littered with references to mistakes and human errors but also learning from it and reaching new boundaries. The finale saw a parade of shirtless models in opposing colors, The Soloist's gang in black and Undercover's in white.

The Soloist



RUNWAY: The Soloist x Undercover FW18

Undercover's sinister take on the youth sees them as brainwashed and controlled by the media. As for the clothes, they were slick with plasticized fabrics, oversized and some accessories offered winged detailing, not exactly for the shy dresser.



RUNWAY: Undercover FW17

Undercover's cheeky Fall/Winter 2015 lookbook features Alexey Galetskiy in caricature poses wearing the label's sporty-cum-athletic collection. Mixed media coats, like a hybrid leather biker jacket with shearling and athletic-inspired pants and joggers looked cool and youthful while tailored pieces including overcoats and slim fitted trousers were streamlined and had just enough panache to live up to the label's reputation for cool and kitschy designs.



HM UFW15 A HM UFW15 B HM UFW15 C HM UFW15 D

RUNWAY: Undercover FW15