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47-598: Located at the center of the Tokyo Midtown development, Midtown Tower is the tallest of the six buildings located within the complex. At 248.1 meters (814 ft), it was the tallest building in Tokyo from the completion of primary construction in January 2007 until the completion of Toranomon Hills in 2014. Its official grand opening was on March 31, 2007, though the offices had been open since February. The building

94-736: A hand-sanded steel roof (whose design was inspired by Issey Miyake's A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth") concept) and 14-meter (46 ft) long glass panels. The site of Tokyo Midtown was the home of the Mōri clan during the Edo period . In 1873 the Imperial Japanese Army established a camp on the site, which became home to units of the 1st Division following the Russo-Japanese War . In 1946, the United States Army took over

141-529: A large-scale relocation of various government agencies in order to re-develop prime government land for commercial purposes. As part of this plan, it was decided in the 1990s to move the JDA headquarters and re-develop the site. The base was formally closed in May 2000 and its functions were relocated to Ichigaya . A consortium of developers including Mitsui Fudosan , Sekisui House , and several life insurance companies won

188-749: A major focus opening flagship locations in Rome and Edinburgh . By August 2023, the company forecasts it will operate 3,747 stores worldwide. Uniqlo opened its first Australian store in Melbourne in April 2014. It expanded into Queensland the following year, with the introduction of two shops in Brisbane . Uniqlo opened a shop in Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne , Victoria,

235-519: A medical clinic affiliated with the U.S. -based Johns Hopkins Hospital . The luxury 250-room Ritz-Carlton Hotel occupies the 47th through 53rd floors of Midtown Tower, their first hotel in Tokyo, under a long-term lease arrangement. Other tenants include the international law firms Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Herbert Smith LLP . The 5-floor retail Galleria, with 73,000 square meters (786,000 sq ft) of stores, restaurants and shops includes

282-622: A new label, +J collection, which won the 2011 Brit Insurance Design Fashion Award. Shiatzy Chen was approached by Uniqlo to produce a capsule collection of ready-to-wear pieces to launch in November 2010. Uniqlo first opened its roadside store in Japan in 1985 and it has now many roadside stores in Japan and five other countries in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia. On 2 September 2009, Fast Retailing announced that

329-637: A new peak, with over 500 retail stores in Japan. When Uniqlo decided to expand overseas, it separated Uniqlo from the parent company, and established Fast Retailing (Jiangsu) Apparel Co., Ltd. in China. In 2002, their first Chinese Uniqlo outlet was opened in Shanghai along with four overseas outlets in London and Basingstoke England. On 1 November 2005, Fast Retailing transferred the business related to clothing manufacturing and retailing to Sun Road Co., Ltd.,

376-530: A place for researching the potentiality of design as an element that enriches our daily life, a place that fosters the public's interest in design by arousing in them different sights and perspectives on how we can view the world and the objects surrounding us." The building, designed by Ando, is on the edge of the park area, and features 1,700 square meters (18,300 sq ft) of floor space, including two galleries and an attached cafe run by chef and restaurateur Takamasa Uetake . The split-level concrete structure includes

423-463: A public tender to purchase the site, paving the way for its development as Tokyo Midtown. Construction began in 2004 and was completed in 2007. 35°39′57″N 139°43′52″E  /  35.66583°N 139.73111°E  / 35.66583; 139.73111 Uniqlo Uniqlo Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社ユニクロ , Kabushiki-gaisha Yunikuro ) ( US : / ˈ juː n i k l oʊ / YOO -nee-kloh ; Japanese pronunciation: [jɯnikɯɾo] )

470-871: A store in Stuttgart (2016), Cologne , Düsseldorf (2018) and Hamburg (2020). By 2021 the company operated ten stores in Germany, six of which were in Berlin. Uniqlo opened its first Indian store New Delhi in October 2019 and in November it opened in Gurugram , following the company's announcement about the same on 9 May 2018. The company will set up a wholly owned subsidiary in India. First flagship store in Mumbai opened on 6 October 2023 at Phoenix Marketcity and

517-529: A unisex casual wear store in Fukuro-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima , under the name "Unique Clothing Warehouse". Initially, the brand was going to be registered as a shortened contraction of "unique clothing". However, in 1988, during administration work in Hong Kong for registering the brand, the "C" in the contracted name was misread as "Q". Tadashi Yanai, the head of the family retail conglomerate, liked

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564-641: A wholly owned subsidiary that operated golf courses through a company split (absorption-type split) , and became a holding company . On the same day, Sun Road changed its name to Uniqlo Co., Ltd. 2005 saw more overseas expansion, with stores opening in the United States ( New York City ), Hong Kong ( Tsim Sha Tsui ) and South Korea ( Seoul ), their South Korean expansion being part of a joint venture with Lotte . As of year-end 2005, in addition to its overseas holdings, Uniqlo had around 700 stores within Japan. By 2006, sales were $ 4 billion. By April 2007,

611-559: Is a Japanese casual wear designer and retailer. It is known for its LifeWear philosophy of providing consumers with high-quality everyday clothing with attention to detail. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. A Yamaguchi -based company, Ogori Shōji (which, until then, had been operating men's clothing shops called "Men's Shop OS") was founded in March 1949 in Ube, Yamaguchi . On 2 June 1984, it opened

658-415: Is located on the 6th floor. This medical facility is the first Japan-based collaboration with Johns Hopkins University . Unlike similar supertall skyscrapers in the area such as Roppongi Hills Mori Tower , Midtown Tower's top 54th floor is not a visitors' observation deck but rather houses building components and maintenance facilities. Floors 7 to 44 are designated as commercial office space and house

705-410: Is still selling 3D knit pieces. In October 2018, Uniqlo collaborated with designer Alexander Wang to create a line of Heattech layerable basics including tank tops, leggings, underwear and bodysuits. On 3 June 2019, artist and recent Dior Homme collaborator KAWS participed on KAWS x UNIQLO UT . "Perhaps because all the other collections were the subdued Uniqlo trademark, KAWS’s subversive art

752-574: The Japan Defense Agency in Akasaka area of Minato , along Gaien Higashi and close to Roppongi Station , and less than a kilometer (half a mile) from the similarly scaled Roppongi Hills complex. The primary developer was Mitsui Fudosan , working in concert with several partners. The project was designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; Nikken Sekkei is the local architect of record. Landscape architecture of

799-770: The Montreal Eaton Centre (formerly Eaton's and Les Ailes de la Mode ). The first Ottawa outlet opened on 16 June 2023 and the first Calgary outlet opened on 25 August 2023, bringing number of outlets to 14 stores in Canada. As of November 2024, there are 28 stores in Canada. Uniqlo entered the Chinese mainland market in 2002. As of August 2021, there were 832 stores in China, including in Beijing , Guangzhou , Chongqing , Chengdu , Nanjing , Ningbo , Shanghai , Shenzhen, Shijia, Tianjin and Xi'an. "Given

846-897: The Wijnegem Shopping Center on 25 March in the same year. 19 October 2017 saw the opening of a third store in Brussels . Uniqlo store in Wijnegem Shopping Center has closed in 2022. There were 3 stores in Belgium as of May 2023. Uniqlo opened their first Canadian outlet at the Toronto Eaton Centre on 30 September 2016, followed by a second outlet at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre on 20 Octobers 2016. Measuring at 28,000 and 24,000 square feet, both outlet are five times

893-560: The $ 3 billion (¥370 billion) project includes office, residential, commercial, hotel, and leisure space, and the new quarters of the Suntory Museum of Art . When completed, the Midtown Tower was the tallest building in Tokyo. The main building complex is surrounded by Hinokicho Park, a 10 acre public park containing green areas along with works of art. The site takes up 78,000 square meters (19.4 acres) previously occupied by

940-788: The United States. On September 27, 2012, Uniqlo, collaborated with Japanese tech retailer Bic Camera , to open a store in Shinjuku called Bicqlo. It opened at the former site of a Mitsukoshi department store. The store is now a regular Bic Camera store after Uniqlo sold its lease of the building on June 19, 2022. Launched in January 2017, "Art for All" was a partnership with New York art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch . The project involved selling, for under $ 100 per item, 65 limited-edition products made by commissioned artists such as Marie Roberts, Starlee Kine and Ken Kagami. Beginning in 2017, Uniqlo has collaborated with designer Johnathan Anderson on multiple menswear collections. As of 2023,

987-451: The building's lobby, that, along with the second and third floors, is utilized by the hotel. The Ritz-Carlton Suite, billed at US$ 26,300 per night, was listed at number 9 on World's 15 most expensive hotel suites compiled by CNN Go in 2012. Tokyo Midtown Tokyo Midtown ( 東京ミッドタウン , Tōkyō Middotaun ) is a 569,000-square-meter (6.1 million sq ft) mixed-use development in Akasaka, Tokyo , Japan. Completed in March 2007,

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1034-525: The clothing is presented in an organized, rational manner, and that very organization and rationality creates an artistic pattern and rhythm. All these qualities reflect the defining characteristics of modern Japanese culture, modern ' Japaneseness .' —Nobuo Domae, CEO, Uniqlo USA (April 2007) In November 1998, it opened their first urban Uniqlo store in Tokyo's trendy Harajuku district, and outlets soon spread to major cities throughout Japan. In 2001, sales turnover and gross profit reached

1081-410: The company had set a global sales goal of $ 10 billion and a ranking among the top five global retailers, joining what at the time was Gap , H&M , Inditex and Limited Brands . Fast Retailing signed a design consulting contract for Uniqlo products with fashion designer Jil Sander in March 2009. Sander was appointed creative director of the brand's menswear and womenswear – as well as launching

1128-738: The company would target annual group sales of 5 trillion yen (approx. US$ 61.2 billion) and pretax profit from operations of 1 trillion yen (approx. US$ 12.2 billion) by 2020. This means that the company is aiming to become the world's biggest specialty retailer of private label apparel with a continuous growth rate of 20% per year. The figure breaks down as one trillion yen from Uniqlo's Japan business, three trillion yen from its international business, and one trillion yen from "Japan-related and global brand business." The company's international business target breaks down as one trillion yen in China, one trillion in other Asian countries and one trillion in Europe and

1175-743: The country, which opened on 5 October 2018, at Glorietta 5 in Makati . The store is the biggest in Southeast Asia. Uniqlo partnered with SM Group 's SM Retail Inc. to bring the brand to the Philippines. As of August 2023, there were 72 stores in Philippines. Uniqlo began operations in Poland in October 2022, opening a pop-up store in Wars Sawa shopping centre in Warsaw . In Fall 2024, it

1222-420: The designer is still working with Uniqlo on limited collections. In late 2017, Uniqlo debuted a line of 3D knit garments, developed through a joint venture with knitwear machine company Shima Seiki. The technology allows a garment to be knit in one piece with minimal waste and no seamlines. It also allows for a finer level of shaping and fit compared to classic knitwear production techniques. As of 2023, Uniqlo

1269-705: The fifth country outside Japan to get a Uniqlo roadside store. The 15,100-square feet store, located in Bandar Sri Damansara was opened in December 2020. The first Dutch Uniqlo store was opened at the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam on 28 September 2018. The official opening was marred by protests against Uniqlo's unethical business practices in its factory in Jakarta, Indonesia. Second Uniqlo store

1316-438: The first Terence Conran restaurants in Japan, a wine bar (Coppola's Vinoteca) showcasing the wines of Francis Ford Coppola , and an outlet of high-end American food retailer Dean & DeLuca . Tokyo Midtown is also the home of 21 21 Design Sight , a design gallery/workshop created by fashion designer Issey Miyake and architect Tadao Ando . "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows exhibits," says Ando, "but also

1363-694: The largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere, in October 2016 when it was redeveloped. Uniqlo opened its first store in the Australian capital Canberra on 26 October 2023 in Canberra Centre. As of November 2024, there are 39 stores in Australia including in Perth , Brisbane , Melbourne , Sydney , Adelaide , Gold Coast and Canberra . The first Belgian Uniqlo store opened in October 2015 at Meir , Antwerp . A second store followed at

1410-413: The offices of (among others): Floors 45 to 53 are home to Japan's second Ritz-Carlton hotel – the 247-room Ritz-Carlton Tokyo. The hotel offers many notable features including Japan’s most expensive Presidential Suite, available for $ 20,000 per night, and an "authentic" 200-year-old Japanese tearoom . Four works measuring 8.1 meters (27 ft) in height by American painter Sam Francis appear in

1457-1208: The old-styled commercial facility of Galleria Alberto Sordi. In September 2024, Uniqlo opened the first European railway station store in Roma Termini . As of September 2024, there are 4 Uniqlo stores in Italy, 2 stores in Milan and other 2 stores in Rome. In October 2023, Uniqlo opened its first flagship store in Luxembourg, in Luxembourg City at Grand Rue Avenue. The store covers 950 m (10,200 sq ft) on three floors. On 4 November 2010, Uniqlo opened its first store in Malaysia, in Fahrenheit 88 located in Bukit Bintang , Kuala Lumpur . As of October 2021, Uniqlo now has 48 outlets located across Malaysia, including an online store. Malaysia became

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1504-446: The population of 1.3 billion, I think we can go for about 3,000 stores," Fast Retailing chief Tadashi Yanai told The Nikkei in 2020, indicating plans to continue opening locations in the world's most populous country. In May 2011, the magazine Shukan Bunshun published a story alleging that Uniqlo had forced employees at its stores and factories in China to work long hours for little pay. In response, Uniqlo unsuccessfully sued

1551-414: The retail brand consultancy, CIA, Inc./The Brand Architect Group, to guide the company through the realization of this strategy, including consulting on merchandise, visual merchandising and display, store design and a new logo designed by Richard Seireeni and Sy Chen of The Brand Architect Group's Los Angeles office. Uniqlo had begun outsourcing their clothing manufacturing to factories in China where labour

1598-745: The second country to open a Uniqlo store in Scandinavia after Sweden. As of May 2024, there are 28 stores in France, 9 of those were in Paris . On 17 November 2014, Uniqlo opened its first store in eastern France (and the second store in France outside Greater Paris ) in the city of Strasbourg . Uniqlo currently has stores in many other major cities including Bordeaux , Lille , Lyon , Marseille , Montpellier , Nantes , Nice , Rennes and Toulouse . Uniqlo's German flagship store opened on 11 April 2014 at Tauentzienstraße , Berlin . Uniqlo then opened

1645-1127: The second store in Mumbai opened on 20 October at Oberoi Mall. As of October 2023, there are 12 stores in India. Uniqlo has recruitment plans for management from South and Southeast Asia as it accelerates the development of its store network in the region. On 22 June 2013, Uniqlo opened its first Indonesian store at Lotte Mall (formerly Lotte Shopping Avenue), Ciputra World 1 , Jakarta . It has 76 stores as of November 2024, spreading east to Balikpapan , Bandung , Banjarmasin , Cirebon , Denpasar , Makassar , Manado , Mataram , Pontianak , Samarinda , Semarang , Surakarta , Surabaya and Yogyakarta , and west to Batam , Jambi , Lampung , Medan , Palembang and Pekanbaru . On 9 April 2021, its Indonesian flagship and most iconic store opened at Pondok Indah Mall 3, Jakarta. On 28 October 2022, Uniqlo opened its first roadside store in Indonesia at Heritage Lifestyle Hub in Bandung , West Java , thus became

1692-536: The site and it was re-purposed as officer housing. The site was returned to Japan in 1960 and became known as Camp Hinokicho ( JGSDF parlance) and Hinokicho Air Base ( JASDF parlance), housing the headquarters of the Japan Defense Agency and various other command and control functions for the Japan Self-Defense Forces for the next forty years. In 1988, the Japanese government authorized

1739-788: The sixth country outside Japan to get a Uniqlo roadside store. The second Uniqlo roadside store as well as its first neighborhood store in Indonesia opened at One District at Puri in Metland Cyber Puri in Tangerang , Banten on 26 May 2023. The third Uniqlo roadside store in Indonesia opened at Hive Kota Harapan Indah in Bekasi , West Java on 26 April 2024. In September 2019, Uniqlo opened its first Italian flagship store in Milan at Piazza Cordusio square. In April 2024, Uniqlo opened another flagship store in Rome at Via del Corso street in

1786-1125: The size of the Muji outlet that opened in Toronto in 2014. Three new Ontario outlets opened in 2018 at Vaughan Mills , CF Markville and Square One Shopping Centre . The first Oshawa outlet opened at the Oshawa Centre in March 2019 and the first Newmarket outlet opened at the Upper Canada Mall in April 2019, bringing the total number of Ontario outlets in to seven. The first British Columbia and Western Canada outlet opened at Burnaby 's Metropolis at Metrotown in October 2017, followed by Surrey's Guildford Town Centre and Richmond Centre in Richmond, BC. The Coquitlam Centre outlet in Coquitlam, BC on 14 September 2018. The West Edmonton Mall outlet opened on 27 September 2019. The first Quebec outlet opened on 23 October 2020 at

1833-506: The sound of the error and shortened the name to "Uniqlo" across Japan. In September 1991, the name of the company was changed from " Ogori Shōji " to " Fast Retailing ", and by April 1994, there were over 100 Uniqlo stores operating throughout Japan. In 1997, Fast Retailing adopted a set of strategies from American retailer The Gap , known as "SPA" (for specialty-store/retailer of private-label apparel), meaning that they would produce their own clothing and sell it exclusively. They engaged

1880-663: The store's exterior had become a popular venue for people to gather and take pictures in sexual poses reminiscent of the video. Uniqlo opened its first flagship store in Central China at Chuhe Hanjie street in Wuhan in May 2024. Uniqlo opened its first Hainan store in Sanya Joy City mall, Sanya in October 2024. In April 2019, Uniqlo opened its first Danish flagship store in Copenhagen at Strøget. It became

1927-535: The surrounding new 40,000 m (10 acre) public park was designed by EDAW , the Suntory Museum of Art by Kengo Kuma , and the design of the retail Galleria handled by the Colorado -based CommArts . The 330,000 square meters (3.5 million square feet) of office space includes as its main tenants Fujifilm , Fuji Xerox , Yahoo! Japan , Cisco Japan , Uniqlo , Nikko Asset Management and Konami , as well as

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1974-445: The weekly's publisher, Bungeishunjū , for ¥220 million for libel . A 2015 online video of a couple having sex in a Beijing Uniqlo store changing room became notorious among Chinese internet users. Chinese police arrested at least five people in connection with the incident, allegedly including the couple and three other disseminators of the video, for having 'severely violated socialist core values'. The New York Times noted that

2021-734: Was able to stand out all the more." In November 2022, Uniqlo opens a new remake and repair service in Tokyo. Re. Uniqlo Repair Studio, offers same day repairs and custom remakes of clothing purchased at Uniqlo. It is open for a trial run until 31 March 2023. This was previously introduced at stores in Germany, the UK and US. On 16 August 2023, Uniqlo announced a line with designer Clare Waight Keller , former creative director of luxury brands Chloé and Givenchy . The 34-piece fall collection launched in September 2023 across 1,500 stores globally as well as online. In 2024, Uniqlo has made growth in Europe

2068-640: Was cheap, a well-established corporate practice. Japan was in the depths of a recession at the time, and the low-cost goods proved popular. Their advertising campaigns, clothing quality and new retail layouts also proved fruitful. In creating its clothing lines, Uniqlo embraces both shun and kino-bi . Shun [旬] means 'timing, best timing, but also at the same time it's a trend,' something that's updated and just in time, neither early nor late. The company offers clothing basics, but basics that are current, that respond to what's going on today in art and design. Kino-bi [機能美] means function and beauty, joined together:

2115-493: Was designed by Chicago-based architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with help from Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and built by the Takenaka and Taisei Corporations . As a mixed-use facility, Midtown Tower's 54 floors are utilized in different ways. Several conference rooms occupy the entirety of the 4th floor. The 5th floor is the home of the Tokyo Midtown Design Hub, a gallery and space for exhibitions, collaborations and discussions by designers. Tokyo Midtown Medical Center

2162-743: Was made permanent and expanded. A second store opened in Warsaw's Westfield Arkadia mall on 26 September 2024. As of 2024, Uniqlo had 29 stores in Singapore. Uniqlo opened its first store in Singapore on 9 April 2009 in Tampines 1 , which has been closed down on 17 January 2021 and instead, a new store at Tampines Mall was opened on 5 February 2021 and has the similar format as Bugis+ , ION Orchard , JEM , Orchard Central and Plaza Singapura which has two floors, one for men and one for women. The first Global Flagship Store opened on 2 September 2016 at Orchard Central replacing 313 @ Somerset. Numerous expansion plans were unveiled in 2020 and Uniqlo ION Orchard and Plaza Singapura, were also heavily expanded and

2209-439: Was opened at the Grote Marktstraat in The Hague on 1 October 2020. Uniqlo opened the second store in Amsterdam at Koningsplein square on 3 October and the first store in Rotterdam at Lijnbaan street on 10 October 2024. As of October 2024, there were 4 stores in the Netherlands. Uniqlo's first store in the Philippines opened at SM Mall of Asia on 15 June 2012. On its sixth anniversary, the company opened its flagship store in

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