The collection was themed around fictitious bands on the Undercover Records label.

Jun Takahashi imagined a utopian society filled with fantastically clad sects.

Jun Takahashi’s collection was an ode to jazz, with patterns inspired by notes and instruments or actual record covers.

Titled Perfect Day, Jun Takahashi’s fall collection was a wonderfully strange, euphoric dream world.

Jun Takahashi offered an eccentric, often confounding Undercover spring collection with a tough, survivalist undercurrent.

“Pain and beauty” were on Jun Takahashi’s mind for fall.

A giant sculpture of a cherry carved into a skull face was plunked on Jun Takahashi’s runway for his Undercover show.

Jun Takahashi gleaned inspiration from rock band Television — its “Seventies, New York” vibe, rather than its members’ look — for part of the collection.

Tokyo-based designer Jun Takahashi staged his Undercover show like a fairy tale.

Jun Takahashi did not limit his runway statement to clothes.

After a two-year absence from the fashion calendar, Tokyo-based designer Jun Takahashi conjured a mood of “Alice in Wonderland” meets Folies Bergère.

Jun Takahashi is a whiz at taking everyday wardrobe pieces and manipulating them, this season by way of impactful collages.

Jun Takahashi dished up luxury sportswear and outerwear camouflaged as regular humdrum wardrobe staples.

Designer Jun Takahashi took the functionalist industrial design principles of Dieter Rams and channeled them into minimal, techno sportswear.

Jun Takahashi’s intricately crafted clothes juxtaposed highly technical fabrics with sophisticated cuts.