Pitti Immagine Uomo announces its Guest Designers for upcoming 93rd editionPitti Immagine Uomo announces its Guest Designers for upcoming 93rd edition

Pitti Immagine Uomo announces its Guest Designers for upcoming 93rd edition

On Thursday, January 11th, 2018 UNDERCOVER by Jun Takahashi and TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist. will present their Fall/Winter 2018-19 menswear collections in Florence during Pitti Uomo 93rd edition.

“UNDERCOVER will be back in Florence after nearly nine years”, says Lapo Cianchi, Pitti Immagine director of communications and events, “along with TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist. For the first time ever these two visionary Japanese designers, who also happen to be great friends, will stage back-to-back shows that will serve as a symbolic expression of not only their friendship, but also of the mutual respect for one another’s work.”

“We are very happy that Jun Takahashi, who has been at the forefront of the fashion avant-garde for more than twenty five years, considers Pitti Uomo to be the only stage for his menswear shows. As to TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist., this will be his Pitti Uomo debut that we have been looking forward to for two reasons. First, because we have always held Miyashita’s previous fashion shows for his first label, Number (N)ine, in high regard, and second, because this will be the first show of TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist outside of Japan.

“We are sure that the back-to-back shows will highlight the work of these two talents. Undercover’s dizzyingly postmodern yet sublime looks, and Takahashi’s unconventional considerations of the beautiful and the weird will be juxtaposed against Miyashita’s forays into the Western imagination and youth culture transformed through his unique design vision. I truly hope that once again Florence will prove to be an endless source of inspiration for these designers, as well as for their global audience.”