Apr 16, 2007
UT? That would be Uniqlo’s new t-shirt brand. Yes, after a few years of ever-expanding summer t-shirt collections, they’re getting ready to launch a proper line, which will have its own retail space in Harajuku (6-10-8 Jingumae, 03-5468-7313 — it opens April 28), as well as an online webstore component. Tees will be sold in plastic tubing — not a first, but still nice — with display shelves morphing into t-shirt vending machines. The website they have up now is rather nice too.
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Jean Snow is a contributor to Arcade Mania, your guide to the arcade gaming scene in Japan (Amazon US/Amazon Japan). He also provided assistance on Tokyolife: Art and Design, a guide to Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives.
He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of The Rough Guide to Tokyo and The Rough Guide to Japan, due for release in 2011.
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But will they be doing international shipping!
I need a more obscure t-shirt source after a tshirt I spent $50 postage on from 2K appeared in the window of Urban Outfitters about a month later. Luckily I wasn’t wearing it at the time.
I wouldn’t think so. But I imagine these tees will be available at their store in New York as well.
very cool. i go to japan every few years. uniqlo is a must visit everytime. will look forward to going back and checking this out next year.