UNIQLO Launching With Pokémon UT and monpoké UT Collections (Out Now)
June 1, 2020, Manila, Philippines — UNIQLO, the Japanese global apparel retailer, will launch the With Pokémon UT and monpoké UT lines on Friday, June 5. UTs (UNIQLO T-shirt) offer an array of authentic pop culture and art graphics from around the world to allow the wearer to express their individuality. This is the first collaboration between UT and monpoké, Pokémon’s official baby brand. The With Pokémon UT items for adults and kids feature motifs of particularly popular characters, while the monpoké UT items for babies feature softly colored designs, allowing entire families to coordinate their looks.
With Pokémon UT
The collection presents Pokémon’s key philosophies – adventure, discovery, and friendship – which have made Pokémon a beloved presence among people of all ages the world over.
Launch date: Friday, June 5
Lineup: MEN’s T-shirts 5 designs PHP 790
WOMEN’s T-shirts 4 designs PHP 790
KIDS’ T-shirts 4 designs PHP 390
KIDS’ Steteco 3 designs PHP 390
Availability: UNIQLO stores nationwide
monpoké UT
monpoké is Pokémon’s official baby brand for a new generation of moms and dads. Behind the designs is the hope that babies can gain lots of first experiences and grow up healthy and happy.
Launch date: Friday, June 5
Lineup: BABY’s T-shirts 4 designs PHP 390
Availability: Selected UNIQLO stores only
Men’s Pokémon UT Lineup Highlights
The item showcases 25 of the first 151 Pokémon from Red and Green (released in Japan in 1996), including Pikachu, Eevee, Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. The motif on the back is a reverse shadow of the design on the front.
The men’s UT features a simple line drawing of a male Pikachu silhouette, with a touch of color. There is also kids’ version allowing for coordinated looks.
Women’s Pokémon UT Lineup Highlights
The women’s item presents a line drawing of a female Pikachu silhouette with, if you look closely, a heart-shaped tail.
The ever-popular Eevee looks chic in natural colors. Women can coordinate their look with kids wearing the same design.
Kids’ Pokémon UT Lineup Highlights
The kids’ item depicts wolf-like Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta from the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield games.
The unisex light cotton easy shorts includes some designs featuring Pikachu and the iconic Poké Ball, as well as legendary Pokémon characters Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo.
monpoké UT Lineup Highlights
The range is the first collaboration between UT and the monpoké brand. The softly colored designs featuring Pikachu, Dedenne, Smeargle, Mime Jr., and Ludicolo are sure to delight.
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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 Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, Helmut Lang, PLST (Plus T), Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam and J Brand. With global sales of approximately 2.2905 trillion yen for the 2019 fiscal year ending August 31, 2019 (US $21.53 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2019 rate of $1 = 106.4 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 global brand. Today the company has more than 2,200 stores in 25 markets including Japan. In alphabetical order, the other markets are Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. U.S. and Vietnam. In addition, UNIQLO established a social business in Bangladesh together with the Grameen Bank in 2010, and today there are several Grameen-UNIQLO stores in Dhaka.
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.
