Supreme x UNDERCOVER Face Tee
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
UNDERCOVER is the Tokyo label founded by Jun Takahashi in 1990, a fixture of the Ura-Harajuku scene alongside Nigo's A Bathing Ape and a Paris runway regular since the SS2003 "Scab" collection. Takahashi studied at Bunka Fashion College and built UNDERCOVER around references to punk, horror, and conceptual art under the slogan "We make noise, not clothes." The SS23 Face Tee is a 100% cotton short-sleeve printed with a cropped photographic image of a face on the front, overlaid with a large blue "Sup" wordmark across the eyes. It released March 30, 2023 at $54 in black and white as part of the SS23 Supreme x UNDERCOVER capsule, the duo's seventh collaboration since 2014.
About UNDERCOVER
UNDERCOVER is a Japanese fashion label founded in 1990 by Jun Takahashi in Tokyo while he was still studying at Bunka Fashion College. Takahashi opened the Nowhere store in Ura-Harajuku in 1993 with BAPE founder Nigo, making the two labels central to the neighborhood's 1990s streetwear movement. UNDERCOVER showed at Tokyo Fashion Week starting in 1994 and moved to the Paris runway in 2002 at Rei Kawakubo's invitation. The brand draws on punk, horror, and dada-influenced graphics, and its motto "We make noise, not clothes" has appeared across collections since the late 1990s. Supreme has collaborated with UNDERCOVER on co-branded outerwear, T-shirts, and Public Enemy-themed capsules.
