Undercover Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear: Zhuzhing Up Workaday Clothes
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Exalting and elevating everyday clothes is becoming a recurring theme for designers this season. Jun Takahashi did it his way at Undercover, bonding tinsel, organza, chiffon and other festive fabrics to boring brown cardigans, well-worn jeans and a yoga center’s logo sweatshirt.
Models tread slowly through a nondescript school cafeteria cleared of its tables as German filmmaker Wim Wenders recounted a day in the life of a single mom. Presumably the fluttering panels of extra fabric were meant to brighten her routine of work, lunch alone at the local Greek, shopping, family time and leisure reading.
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As the show progressed, extra fabric piled up to nearly regal proportions, a long gold lamé train among protrusions attached to the gray sweatshirt worn by veteran model Rose Van Bosstraeten, who could be the protagonist of Wenders’ soundtrack tale.
Backstage, Takahashi said he was inspired by Wenders’ latest film, “Perfect Days,” about a toilet cleaner in Japan who finds beauty and poetry in his ordinary life.
The concept yielded some appealing clothes, like a cardigan trailing bits of silk nightgown, or a leather jacket merged with checkered scarves.
But then it grew wearisome and occasionally forced. Apart from a few spike-y handbags, gone were the punk, subversive and rebellious elements for which Undercover is known.
On second thought, the wild combinations of various fabrics will surely vex some dry cleaners.
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Launch Gallery: Undercover Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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