Jun Takahashi

Born in Kiryū, Gunma in 1969, Jun Takahashi co-founded Undercover with Hiroshi Fujiwara's encouragement while still studying at Bunka Fashion College, opening the Nowhere store in Harajuku with friend Nigo in 1993. His early collections fused punk, Dadaist patchwork, and Tokyo street energy under the motto 'We Make Noise, Not Clothes,' before his 2002 Paris debut 'Scab' pushed Undercover into the international avant-garde conversation alongside Rei Kawakubo, who became a key mentor. Across collections like 'Languid' and 'But Beautiful,' he has built a literary, often unsettling vocabulary of grafted garments, theatrical staging, and recurring motifs from Sonic Youth to David Lynch. He continues to lead Undercover from Tokyo and collaborates extensively with Nike, sacai, and Supreme.