Monday, 25 July 2016

Jun Takahashi Untitled. Sex and Seditionaries

No Place (Tokyo). No Publisher (Jun Takahashi / Undercover). No Date (ca 2004). First Edition. Folio. Unpaginated. Black cloth in Pin up Slipcase. Reputedly printed in an edition of 1000 copies. No Text. 
 
Inventory of Sex, Seditionaries, Let it Rock, Vivienne Westwood/Malcolm McClaren clothing. Page after page after page of original garments flat photographed, probably the only record of a lot of the garments. The publicity shy Takahashi of Undercover fame has probably the biggest collection of early Westwood, and this book documents all of it. Apparently McClaren flipped his wig and thought it had to be the collection of either Rei Kawakubo or Yoji Yamamoto, as they were the only two people he remembered buying one of everything in each colour. An underground legend.