Index Code:

FAS–SYS–TAK

Orgin:

Kiryu, Japan / Tokyo, Japan

Field Notes:

rebellion as collage · intellect as instinct · noise as order

Defining Moment:

Fall 2003 — “Scab” collection codified subculture as couture; chaos became composition

Jun Takahashi

(

1993 – present

)

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Takahashi writes manifestos in collage.

His Undercover collections splice punk, literature, and film into conceptual rebellion.

Clothes act as essays — fragments of culture stitched into rhythm.

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His world is subversive and poetic, where intellect and instinct coexist in noise.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Jun Takahashi’s work, this approach appears where garments operate as layered systems.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Jun Takahashi’s work, this approach appears where garments operate as layered systems.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Fashion

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Jun Takahashi

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Jun Takahashi

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue