Abstract
- Jun Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER Pre-Spring 2026 presents a refined synthesis of Western, grunge, and tailor-made flavors in flowy silhouettes and layered lengths.
For Pre-Fall 2025, Jun Takahashi‘s UNDERCOVER proposed a revival of Mod fashion, evoking 90s rock subculture and British counterculture. This time, with a toned-down palette targeted on grayscale and dry earth tones, the Japanese designer evokes a cinematic fusion of Western, grunge, and tailor-made sensibilities for its Pre-Spring 2026 assortment.
Departing from the neon-tinged hues, florals, and jeweled trims of UNDERCOVER’s Fall 2025 line, Pre-Spring 2026 is a moderately quiet assertion. Refined Montana-style hats are the binding thread, current by numerous appears to be like combining tailor-made units, classic bohemian sensibilities, and modern streetwear staples, signature to the label.
Just like the Pre-Fall 2025 marketing campaign, the appears to be like start with elevated kinds, together with a deconstructed black two-piece with an uncovered white lining and a darkish brown pinstriped camp shirt and shorts set. A very elegant second arrives with a stark white swimsuit in light-weight cloth and styled with a white pinstripe shirt. Later, a strong brown shirt jacket combines army and heritage influences with a chino-collar, Asian knot buttons, and utilitarian patch pockets.
Excessive-water trouser inseams and roomy shorts proceed because the appears to be like change into extra informal and Jun Takahashi’s edgy ethos involves the fore. An indigo trucker jacket is emblazoned with numerous patches, a typographic motif reads “I hear greater than you may hear,” daring touches of major purple and deep purple add contemporaneity to the gathering. A haphazardly written “I’m chaos” graphic is a recurring theme, embroidered on the toebox of flat-soled loafers and an outsized brown t-shirt. The lookbook closes with the boldest print of the gathering — a contemporary gridded camouflage, utilized to a liner jacket silhouette and shorts coated with cargo pockets.
See the gallery above for a full have a look at UNDERCOVER’s Pre-Spring 2026 Assortment.
