YOU’VE GOT NAIL: The crotch-logo pattern continues into 2025: A linchpin piece in a brand new collaboration between Levi’s and Undercover is a pair of denims spelling out “Mild, Darkness” just below the waistband.
It’s modeled with aplomb by Flea, bass participant for the Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers, who posed for marketing campaign images — generally lounging within the ocean — close to his Malibu dwelling. They have been snapped by his photographer daughter, Clara Balzary.
The nine-piece assortment drops worldwide on Jan. 18 in choose Levi’s and Undercover areas, and on the model’s digital shops.
Flea fashions appears from the Levi’s x Undercover assortment.
Clara Balzary
San Francisco-based Levi’s first collaborated with Japanese designer Jun Takahashi and his Undercover label for fall 1998, and reprised a hookup for fall 2022.
Their newest effort coincides with the thirty fifth anniversary of Undercover, recognized for its mix of streetwear and excessive trend, tinged with subversive parts. Takahashi has been exhibiting his girls’s collections in Paris since 2002.
Right here embroidered or printed nail motifs, spiky zigzag stitching and peering-eye prints add intrigue to trucker jackets, denims jackets, vests, five-pocket denims and cotton T-shirts. Types are available quite a lot of denim weights and corduroys.
Trucker and denims jackets get sharper shoulders, and zip-off particulars, permitting for a customizable look. Some have a small pink “Small Elements” label sewn into the neckline, winking to the 1998 collaboration.
In the meantime, 501 and saggy denims are detailed alongside the seams with spiky stitching, including delicate punk vitality.
Coincidentally, the Undercover collaboration drops the day after the Pitti Uomo commerce honest winds up in Florence, Italy, the place Takahashi has been the visitor designer twice, most not too long ago in 2018.
501 Denims characteristic an embroidered field nail and a peering eyes patch.
Courtesy of Levi’s/Undercover