Everything you need to know about Mr Jun Takahashi’s new Kubrick-inspired collection.

To say filmmaker Mr Stanley Kubrick had an eye for detail is something of an understatement. Two years after the 2001: A Space Odyssey director’s death, journalist Mr Jon Ronson was invited by Mr Kubrick’s estate to inspect his personal archive in his Hertfordshire home, what The Sunday Times called his “secret lair”. In his account (and it’s worth reading for yourself), Mr Ronson describes a secluded country house full of boxes. And not just the house – the boxes spill into portacabins erected across the grounds.

Contained within the boxes, Mr Ronson finds relics from every film that Mr Kubrick made: correspondence with the widow of Mr Vladimir Nabokov, whose Lolita he adapted; photographs of “the exteriors of maybe every mountain hotel in the world” for The Shining; more photographs of nearly every doorway in north London – including, Mr Ronson suspects, his own – for a two-second shot in Eyes Wide Shut; all of it forensically documented. There were even artefacts from the films he didn’t make, including 25,000 library cards, one for each day of Mr Napoléon Bonaparte’s life recording what he did that day – for a biopic that was canned when it met its Waterloo (the 1970 film starring Mr Rod Steiger, released before Mr Kubrick could complete his). The further Mr Ronson delved, the more he found, until the ultimate reveal: the boxes cluttering up the house were in fact bespoke, made to Mr Kubrick’s exact specifications.

With all this in mind, you’d feel that Mr Kubrick would admire the lengths that Undercover designer Mr Jun Takahashi went to when unveiling his AW18 collection, which was inspired by the singular vision of the director – the Japanese designer even cast identical twins for the finale of the women’s show in homage to The Shining. Given that the wardrobe plays such a huge part in Mr Kubrick’s work – the Mr Hardy Amies-designed spacesuits of 2001, the gang colours of A Clockwork Orange’s droogs, the “born to kill” helmet of Full Metal Jacket’s promotional artwork – Mr Kubrick’s world is one that was waiting for a fashion designer of a similar level of thoroughness to explore, and the streetwear pioneer, known for his collaborations with Nike, proves here he is game.

Look out for apparel plastered with “COMPUTER MALFUNCTION” from the collection, and for now, get your fix with these 2001-aping tees – with references to the dawn of man and the film’s ever-present monolith. The most coherent interpretation of that particular artwork we’ve encountered since our university film studies module – or at least the enthusiastic debate we had in the pub afterwards.

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