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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Undercover Autumn/ Winter 2020

BoF’s Editor-at-Large goes back to Jun Takahashi’s dark, idiosyncratic obsessions with his 'Fallen Man' show.
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  • Tim Blanks

And now for something a little different…in this weekly serial, I’ve been looking back a decade or three at fashion shows that set me a-tingling for one reason or another, but today’s tingle is not even a year old. I didn’t write about “Fallen Man”, Undercover’s Autumn/Winter 2020 show in January. Let’s say I was saving it for something. Like now, when I came across the invitation and was once again taken by its cryptic poetry: “Behold the castle, ruined by delusion, as it lays still haunted, ‘mongst the spirits of the dead, caught in wretched obsession in this world of carnage, shall never change from past to present…”

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