It was a curious pairing: the very much of-the-moment Abloh, and Takahashi, who has been a step ahead of his time since Undercover’s inception in 1990. Jun Takahashi, the label’s designer, was debuting “UNDEROFFWHITECOVERS,” a collaboration with Off-White, Virgil Abloh’s trendy juggernaut. Nigo: I’m spending my time thinking about what I want to work on.Tokyo, Japan – A Saturday evening this past September, on a back street of Aoyama, Tokyo’s major shopping district, the Undercover flagship boutique was abuzz with activity. It would be the very first men's runway show for us. Jun Takahashi: I'm working on the UNDERCOVER collection for the Pitti Uomo in June as I'm invited as a guest designer. We are talking about doing some new things as well, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. Just a recreation of what we made back then. Nigo: We have already released some pieces, it is very simple – tees and sweats. If we had done this in Tokyo there would have been more people who would know what this meant without us having to explain, but it would have been a less interesting idea to me.ĭD: As part of the Dover Street launch, you're planning to re-introduce LAST ORGY 2 - a progressive collection that you produced together in the mid 90s. London is a place that has special significance for me and A Bathing Ape… I think it is somewhere that has special meaning to Jonio as well. I think it was more interesting to do it because it is London. It takes place in the 15th anniversary year of opening and we needed to do something in London because our store was closing. As far as A Bathing Ape was concerned there was no particular critical reaction that I noted at the time, so I don’t think that I was affected in that way.ĭD: How did the Dover Street collaboration come about? Nigo: The store was commercially successful, so I suppose that encouraged me to carry on and do more. Jun Takahashi: I could be confident and positive about the idea of being independent. I don’t think we needed to think about it that much.ĭD: How do you think the success of the store has affected your positions as designers for A Bathing Ape and Undercover? We were just doing what we felt like doing. Jun Takahashi: The idea was that by separating the small space of the store into two with wire netting, we wanted to express two totally different worlds of interests and of the way of thinking. At the same, it would have been far less interesting.”ĭazed Digital: It’s been almost 15 years since you set up NOWHERE in Tokyo’s Harajuku area. “If we had done this in Tokyo, there would have been more people who knew what it meant without us having to explain. “London is a place that has special significance for me and A Bathing Ape” says Nigo. Being the only UK stockist of A Bathing Ape, the store also boasts LAST ORGY 2, the re-edition of first collection that Jun and Nigo designed together, and will remain open until mid June. Now bringing their fashion forward approach to London, the designers have opened a NOWHERE pop up store, which we hear is driving serious people traffic to Dover Street Market’s basement. A 90s underground sensation, NOWHERE in Tokyo was a joint venture between Jun Takahashi (Undercover) and Nigo (A Bathing Ape), and first ever retail space to sell Undercover.
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