For Spring/Summer 2026, Undercover returns to its long-running “but beautiful” meditation and shifts it into lighter, everyday motion. The collection leans into purposeful wrongness—off-kilter proportions, distorted pattern lines, exposed linings, mismatched buttons, and visible hand-stitching—so garments feel as if they were assembled by instinct rather than rule. That fragile, “made-by-hand” sensation echoes the soft-sculpture world of French artist Anne-Valérie Dupond, whose stuffed-animal works inform both the mood and the tactile grammar of the season. Undercover translates those plush, slightly uncanny silhouettes into clothes that move with the body: dresses and tailoring that carry uneven hems and crooked darts, knits with a tender, repaired quality, and pieces that invite touch without lapsing into costume.

Accessories extend the narrative with considered collaborations: footwear by Undercover x Beautiful Shoes, bags by Undercover x Brigitte Tanaka, eyewear by Undercover x Factory900, and hats with Kijima Takayuki. The finale brings the theme full circle with a dress and shoes created alongside Dupond, underscoring the collection’s embrace of imperfection as a form of grace—each irregular seam and skewed fastener becoming a quiet declaration that beauty doesn’t require symmetry to feel true.