Undercover Women's FW11 - Paris

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I am very much relieved to see Takahashi's singularity and quirkiness come back here.

[lowrey]

Jun got his groove back!!!

by no means my favourite collection, but so much better than the last couple of seasons.

[droogist]

It's solid, so in that respect it's nice to see him back on track. There's a lot of references to previous collections here, and at first I thought this was something of a greatest hits. Then I read the style.com review, which quotes Jun as saying: "It's for women, very sophisticated and feminine. What women want to wear." Now that he mentions it, it kind of does look like he'd studied a bunch of streetstyle blogs and then made his own versions of the most popular outfits (e.g., the look with the jeans and blazer, the one with the bateau top, and the shearling). I don't mean this critically; I think that this might actually be the concept behind this collection. If I'm not mistaken he's done something similar before with S/S 2007, which was an Undercover interpretation of Parisian chic. In any case the results are good so I'm not complaining.

[rider]

its very inviting at first and then looking closer i really appreciate how interesting it is.
so far a season favorite, because i can wear it to work and go unnoticed, well, most of it at least.
the warm grey coat in post 2 is just beautiful.

[hamham3002]

I am very much relieved to see Takahashi's singularity and quirkiness come back here.

amen to that!
i got the same feeling as droogist from the first look.. there are elements similar to the women fw10 from the 1st and 2nd set of pics.. (mainly the use of those pattern fabric on the jackets as well as the pairing of jeans and jacket.)
good collection over all.. hope Jun puts similar efforts back in the men's next time around.

[snafu]

have to say like this; if i saw a girl wearing this it would make me turn and wonder.

what women buy this stuff ?

[edhohoho]

I like a few of the jackets, the leather skirt, and that cat clutch/portfolio. Otherwise, there's not much that catches my eye.

[Faust]

So, the other day I saw the documentary (which was nothing to write SZ about) that was shot during the making of this collection and I was sad to see that some of these pieces were ruined with this on the back...