YOU’VE GOT NAIL: The crotch-logo development continues into 2025: A linchpin piece in a brand new collaboration between Levi’s and Undercover is a pair of denims spelling out “Gentle, Darkness” slightly below the waistband.
It’s modeled with aplomb by Flea, bass participant for the Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers, who posed for marketing campaign pictures — generally lounging within the ocean — close to his Malibu residence. They had been snapped by his photographer daughter, Clara Balzary.
The nine-piece assortment drops worldwide on Jan. 18 in choose Levi’s and Undercover places, and on the model’s digital shops.
Flea fashions appears to be like from the Levi’s x Undercover assortment.
Clara Balzary
San Francisco-based Levi’s first collaborated with Japanese designer Jun Takahashi and his Undercover label for fall 1998, and reprised a hookup for fall 2022.
Their newest effort coincides with the thirty fifth anniversary of Undercover, identified for its mix of streetwear and excessive style, tinged with subversive components. Takahashi has been displaying his ladies’s collections in Paris since 2002.
Right here embroidered or printed nail motifs, spiky zigzag stitching and peering-eye prints add intrigue to trucker jackets, denims jackets, vests, five-pocket denims and cotton T-shirts. Types are available a wide range of denim weights and corduroys.
Trucker and denims jackets get sharper shoulders, and zip-off particulars, permitting for a customizable look. Some have a small crimson “Small Elements” label sewn into the neckline, winking to the 1998 collaboration.
In the meantime, 501 and saggy denims are detailed alongside the seams with spiky stitching, including delicate punk power.
Coincidentally, the Undercover collaboration drops the day after the Pitti Uomo commerce truthful winds up in Florence, Italy, the place Takahashi has been the visitor designer twice, most lately in 2018.
501 Denims function an embroidered field nail and a peering eyes patch.
Courtesy of Levi’s/Undercover
