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Two black ensembles
Fall 2005 and Fall 2006
The Museum at FIT
New York City, United States
Left: Undercover (Jun Takahashi) / Ensemble / Black wool felt, cotton knit and leather / Fall 2005, Japan / Lent by Jun Takahashi, Undercover
Jun Takahashi is an ex-DJ and former lead singer of a Tokyo punk band, who started his Undercover label thirteen years ago. His clothes are “cute but scary,” he explained. “I get my ideas from life’s mysterious dark side.”
Center left: Yohji Yamamoto / Ensemble with cage corset / Black silk crepe / Fall 2006, Japan/ 2007.2.1 / Museum purchase
This corset has been described as “the twenty-first-century equivalent of whale-boning.” Alternatively, it evokes the human rib-cage.
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- Title: Two black ensembles
- Fashion House: Undercover
- Date Created: Fall 2005 and Fall 2006
- Location Created: Japan
- Season: Fall 2005 and Fall 2006
- Type: Ensembles
- Rights: Copyright The Museum at FIT
- Medium: Ensemble: Black wool felt, cotton knit and leather Ensemble with cage corset: Black silk crepe
- Credit: Ensemble: Lent by Jun Takahashi, Undercover Ensemble with cage corset: Museum purchase
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