Undercover | History, Urahara, Jun Takahashi, Collabs, Futurism, Asian Culture | Pick of the Week 44

Undercover founded by Jun Takahashi is one of Japans most recognized and established high-end street-wear brands. Since the official launch in 1993, the designer’s claim to success has always been ‘We Make Noise, Not Clothes’. Undercover was strongly influenced by punk music, ripped shirts as well as patched leather jackets were the key items of the first collections. Today Takahashi’s aesthetic still represents a subversive and sinister approach but is infused with clarity and technicality, as many of his clothes have practical design features. Shop at GATE _______________________ GATE194 is a system of spaces in Berlin-Kreuzberg connecting fashion, art and store design and concept rotats around the contrast between the synthetic and the organic, the digital and the analog, the man and the machineboth online and offline experience should constantly embody the idea of something that is about to be discovered. GATE194 believes in the c