UNIQLO

UNIQLO Soho New York Store to Open as UNIQLO's Global Flagship Store.

The fabric of modern Japan is being woven into the streets of New York!  With the autumn opening of UNIQLO's highly anticipated new global flagship store, SoHo will finally get to experience the contemporary Japanese style that has long been missing from this hot, international fashion mecca.  UNIQLO is Japan's most popular apparel retailer and a worldwide leader in casual wear.  The brand's mission is to empower all individuals through the clothing they choose to wear.  Rather than become characterized by a brand, UNIQLO encourages its customers to integrate its pieces into their own unique style.  

UNIQLO's SoHo global flagship will be the brand's largest retail store anywhere in the world, featuring unique products and styles that will only be found there and a dynamic, cutting-edge store environment to make the shopping experience personal and fun.  To ensure its success UNIQLO has recruited many of the industry's top talents, stars and arbiters of style to design and manage the huge SoHo flagship.

Bringing UNIQLO to SoHo is about more than just introducing Japan's favorite clothing brand to the rest of the world it's also an opportunity to express UNIQLO's essence as a unique, distinctly modern Japanese brand.  UNIQLO's SoHo global flagship will be the most significant example of Japanese retail culture outside of Japan and a model for the future of UNIQLO's global expansion.

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Store Overview

Address :
546 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 USA
Telephone :
917 237-8811
Opening hour :
Mon-Sat   : 10AM-9PM
Sun         : 11AM-8PM
Sales floor space :
approx. 36,000 ft2 (3,300 m2)
URL :
http://www.uniqlo.com/

Corporate Information

Name :
UNIQLO USA, Inc.
Location :
New York, USA
Capital :
US$30,000,000 (approx. 3.5 billion yen)
Shareholder :
Fully owned subsidiary of FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.
Established :
Nov. 22, 2004

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Creative Direction

Kashiwa SatoKashiwa Sato
Creative Director / Art Director

Born in Tokyo in 1965, Kashiwa Sato studied graphic design at the Tama Art University.  After a period working for Hakuhodo, he started his own business, establishing his creative studio "Samurai" in 2000.  Sato's creative work is characterized by its powerful visual inventiveness and spans a wide range of genres and media.  As such, it has received critical praise and accolades from individuals and organizations in an array of industries including design, advertising and art direction.  His major accomplishments include TV commercials for the Honda StepWGN, TBC and Parco Grand Bazaar, artwork for musicians such as Smap and Mr. Children, product development and advertising for Kirin Beer (Gokunama, Namakuro) and Kirin Beverage (Kirin Lemon), branding and interior design for TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, and renewal projects for kindergartens and Meiji Gakuin University.  In his most recent endeavor, he was responsible for the product design and advertising campaign for the NTT DoCoMo "FOMA N702iD."  He has won numerous prizes, including the Tokyo ADC Grand Prix, Tokyo TDC Gold Prize, etc.

Interior Design

Masamichi KatayamaMasamichi Katayama
Interior Designer

Born in Okayama in 1966, Since establishing Wonderwall in 2000, Katayama has become recognized for eliciting an uninhibiting sense of energy in the world of architecture and interior design through his unconventional and exhilarating approach toward design.  Katayama's interest in design has always been broad, respecting conventional and traditional aspects of architecture and other forms of design, while believing in breaking the boundaries.   A "total concept" designer, Katayama's intensions are focused on creating an environment that touch the subconscious of the consumer and occupant.  Often times fixtures and furniture pieces are created specifically for each project.  Katayama's work ranges from a variety of project that include, retail spaces, restaurants, offices and showrooms.  In 2003, his first monograph, Wonderwall: Masamichi Katayama Projects, was co-published with Frame Publishers and Birkhauser worldwide. Wonderwall's most representative creations are: *A BATHING APE "BUSY WORK SHOP"(Harajuku, New York, London, Hong Kong and others), B&B Italia (Aoyama), PIERRE HERME PARIS (Aoyama), DRAWER (Aoyama), and Ogilvy & Mather Japan (Ebisu).

Art Direction

Markus KiersztanMarkus Kiersztan (MP Creative)
Creative Director / Art Director

Born in Munich in 1966, Markus Kiersztan moved to New York in 1991 where he worked as the art director and creative director of "The Fashion" and various other magazines. In 2000, he established "MP Creative", a creative studio that specializes in everything from advertising direction to the design of retail spaces and Web sites.Kiersztan's ability to sense the strength of a brand and express it visually in a stunningly beautiful way has received great acclaim from the fashion world. His clients include such illustrious names as Nike, H&M, Yohji Yamamoto, theory and Lucasfilm, and in New York, which is the world's most competitive advertising market, he is considered one of the best creative directors. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious New York Art Directors Club Award, which he has won three times as the art director of the magazine "Big".

Web Direction

Yugo NakamuraYugo Nakamura
Interface Designer / Director / Engineer

Born in Nara in 1970, Yugo Nakamura completed a master's degree at the University of Tokyo's School of Engineering.  After working as a senior art director at the Web design company Business Architects Inc., he opened his own design studio "tha."  At present, he is also a part-time lecturer at the Shonan-Fujisawa Campus of Keio University, and at the Nagaoka Institute of Design.  Nakamura is an established designer in the fields of interaction design, interface design and Web media.  His revolutionary work in the fields of Web interface design has been noted around the world for its simplicity and sophistication. His major projects include "ecotonoha" for NEC, "camcamtime" for SONY, and "jump-in.jp" for Microsoft.  He has received a number of awards for "ecotonoha," including the Cannes Cyber Lions Grand Prix Award (the top award in the advertising world), the Clio Awards Grand Prix and a One Show Interactive Gold Pencil. His work has been seen at a large number of exhibitions and workshops around the world.