Natural Elements-Inspired Uniqlo U Spring/Summer 2018 Collection to Launch from January 26

Friday 26 January 2018 17:06
UNIQLO launches that its Spring/Summer 2018 Uniqlo U collection will launch from January 26 next year. Available at UNIQLO stores and at UNIQLO.com, the range embodies the LifeWear philosophy of creating high-quality clothing that is universal in design and comfort and made for everyone, everywhere. The new collection features a range of reinvented basics from the design team at the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center, led by Artistic Director Christophe Lemaire.

Uniqlo U takes the LifeWear range further toward tomorrow by bringing new ideas to design, patterns, fabric development, and sewing techniques. The latest Uniqlo U collection features brilliant hues inspired by nature in slightly oversized styling for effortlessly relaxed silhouettes.

- Featuring blues and greens, stripes and borders

Key collection colors are sky and sea blue and forest and grass green. Orange and red accents, stripes and borders, and other elements broaden wardrobe flexibility. An exciting addition to the women's line this season is an Open Collar Shirt featuring thick stripes. A highlight of the men's range will be a multicolor Border T-shirt employing heavyweight cotton.

- BLOCKTECH coats offering outstanding performance

This season's line will incorporate coats that offer exceptional water resistance, windproofing, and breathability. The women's BLOCKTECH Short Coat is both comfortable and stylish as townwear, employing a drawstring waist and a matte finish. The new men's BLOCKTECH coat employs chambray twill fabric that is water repellent and windproofed, combining a clean silhouette with excellent all-weather protection.

- Seamless, comfortable knits employing Wholegarment technology and seamless swimwear for women

Fall/Winter 2017 items made with 3D U-Knit three-dimensional weaving technique proved incredibly popular, employing Wholegarment technology to enhance fit and comfort. The new range enhances the look and feel by adopting high twist cotton fabric in two new women's items: one is the 3D Ribbed Balloon Sweater, with distinctive cuff and waist styling, and the other is the 3D Crew Neck Balloon Dress, whose fit and flare silhouette enhances femininity.

Later in the Spring/Summer 2018 season, UNIQLO plans to launch six new swimwear items that minimize seams to enhance comfort. They include a bandeau bikini with removable straps, a halter neck bikini for freer movement, and a bicolor bikini.

Visit the following website for details: uniqlo.com/UniqloU

The UNIQLO Paris R&D Center

The Paris facility complements UNIQLO's other research and development centers in Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, and Los Angeles. The world-class designers and pattern makers in the Paris design team contribute significantly to the ongoing evolution of LifeWear through their advances with Uniqlo U.

About UNIQLO LifeWear

Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual's style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people's lives.

About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing

UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under seven main brands: Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Helmut Lang, J Brand, Princesse tam.tam, Theory, and UNIQLO. With global sales of approximately 1.7864 trillion yen for the 2016 fiscal year ending August 31, 2016 (US $17.31 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2016 rate of $1 = 103.2 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world's largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan's leading specialty retailer.

UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a truly global brand. Today the company has more than 1,900 stores in 19 markets worldwide including Japan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and the U.S. In addition, Grameen UNIQLO, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, currently operates several Grameen UNIQLO stores in Dhaka. UNIQLO manages an integrated business model under which it designs, manufactures, markets and sells high-quality, casual apparel. The company believes that truly great clothes should be supremely comfortable, feature universal designs, are of high quality and offer a superb fit to everyone who wears them.

With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.