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A second UNIQLO and Ghibli collaboration collection exclusively for Southeast Asia

The new collection will be available solely in stores and through UNIQLO.com in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

All 27 items will incorporate art featuring Ghibli’s best-known works and designs by Thai artist Kanyada and longtime Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki. Items will be in men’s, kids’, and baby sizes. As well as T-shirts, the lineup will also include shirts, sweatshirts, socks, and the Round Mini Shoulder Bags that have proven to be a worldwide hit.

Kicking off with special events at Bugis+ in Singapore
Along with the release of the collection, there will be something fun for Studio Ghibli fans of all ages at a series of special events. A film festival commemorating the collection with free screenings of six Studio Ghibli films will start at the Golden Village cinema at Bugis+ in Singapore from August 17. For a limited time, Bugis+ will also host a stamp rally, feature photo spots with famous scenes from “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”, and display large models of such popular characters as Totoro and Ponyo. Some Southeast Asian stores will additionally offer kids opportunities to sketch one of Ghibli’s iconic Dust Bunny characters and add them to an art wall, and take part in Ghibli’s Hide & Seek games.

Event overview:

• Dates: Thursday, August 17, through Thursday, September 14, 2023
• Venue: Bugis+
• Activities: Including film festival at Golden Village Bugis+, photo spot, and large models of characters
• Times: 10:00 am to 10:00 pm daily
• Admission: Free
• Access: 201 Victoria Street #05-01 Bugis+ Singapore 188067

Overview of the STUDIO GHIBLI UT Collection:

• Launch date: Monday, August 21, 2023
• Items: Men: 13 T-shirts, shirts, and sweatshirt designs prices at RM 59.90 to RM 129.90
• Kids: 6 T-shirt designs priced at RM 39.90
• Babies: T-shirt designs priced at RM 39.90
• Accessories (5 bags and sock designs) priced at RM 59.90

Availability:

• All UNQLO stores and UNIQLO.com
• Special site: https://www.uniqlo.com/my/en/spl/ut/my-style-my-ghibli
• Product site: https://www.uniqlo.com/my/en/search/?q=ghibli

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, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand, and Helmut Lang. With global sales of approximately 2.3 trillion yen for the 2022 fiscal year ending August 31, 2022 (US $16.6 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2022 rate of $1 = 138.7 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 a total of more than 2,400 stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe, and North America.

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 http://www.uniqlo.com and http://www.fastretailing.com.

About STUDIO GHIBLI
Studio Ghibli was founded in 1985 by animated film directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, and has produced twenty-five feature-length films. Most Studio Ghibli films ranked number one at the box office in Japan in the year in which they were released. The Studio’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001), HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) and PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) are among Japan’s top 10 grossing films. Studio Ghibli films have garnered numerous awards and critical acclaim from film critics and animation specialists around the world. SPIRITED AWAY was awarded the Golden Bear as the Best Feature Film at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and won the 2002 Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature Film. In October 2001, Studio Ghibli, in conjunction with The Tokuma Memorial Cultural Foundation for Animation, founded the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, designed by Hayao Miyazaki. THE WIND RISES (2013), THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (2013), WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (2014) and THE RED TURTLE (2016) have earned the studio four consecutive nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature Film, and EARWIG AND THE WITCH, was an official selection for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. The studio’s latest film THE BOY AND THE HERON was released in Japan on July 14, 2023.