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UNIQLO

Basic information

Country
Japan
Founded
1984

Overview

UNIQLO is a Japanese casual clothing brand whose first store opened in Hiroshima in 1984. As a core brand of Fast Retailing, it operates an integrated business spanning planning and procurement, production, and sales, and is available around the world, focusing on everyday clothing that includes functional materials. Its concept is LifeWear.

Concept

LifeWear is clothing designed to enrich the lives of all people. It is clothing that consistently pursues rationality with an aesthetic sensibility: simple, high quality, and full of thoughtful details. It is also everyday clothing conceived around the needs of daily life and continually evolving.

Sub-brands

  • Uniqlo U 2016

    A collection developed as a derivative line of UNIQLO, designed by a team led by Christophe Lemaire at the Paris R&D Center. Based on everyday clothing (LifeWear), it is reconfigured with innovative materials and contemporary silhouettes and presented as “Future LifeWear Essentials,” distinguishing it from the regular line. It includes women’s, men’s, and kids’ collections and is presented as a line each season.

    A reinterpreted design line led by Paris R&D

  • UNIQLO : C 2023

    A collection developed by Clare Waight Keller as a line derived from UNIQLO. Under the banner “elevated LifeWear essentials,” it presents a practical wardrobe for women and men, designed around the movements and settings of urban life and released seasonally. Within the scope of regular LifeWear, it serves to bring together the styling and item composition as a collection.

    A refined essentials line for urban living