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Positioned only a stone’s throw from London’s Savile Row, the tailoring hub the place clothes is constructed to final many years, and makes a number of returns to its originators for mends, repairs and alterations, Re.Uniqlo Studio’s mission is to maintain Uniqlo attire objects in circulation for longer, maximising their myriad potentialities.
A devoted house for pursuing a brand new future for garments, the primary Re.Uniqlo Studio opened on the decrease floor flooring on the model’s Regent Road, London retailer; a second house launched on the opening of its new Battersea Energy Station retailer in October 2022. The initiative goals to assist clients get pleasure from Uniqlo LifeWear absolutely, freely and for longer by providing specialist restore companies.
Re.Uniqlo: embracing recycling, upcycling and restore
Re.Uniqlo restore store, Regent Road, London
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Offering clients with a spot to herald any beloved Uniqlo objects that require mending or altering, the studio’s educated workers will handle all the pieces from hemming trousers and stitching buttons to patching holes and stitching tears. Costs begin from simply £3.
The model has at all times provided free alterations on chosen trouser bottoms, and now the Remake service goes additional, providing alterations, minor resizing and specialist tailoring companies on a wider vary of things. Re.Uniqlo Studio (in a former gentleman’s barber store with authentic Grade I-listed artwork deco options) additionally contains an elevated, inventive service turning present Uniqlo attire into contemporary new objects via a number of restore and customisation choices, together with the Japanese Sashiko stitching method, which celebrates seen mending as embellishment.
Re.Uniqlo restore store, Regent Road, London
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This historic needlework custom, relationship from Seventeenth-century Japan, encourages Uniqlo clients to fix, adorn and upcycle garments, maintaining them wearable and in use for longer. Instruments equivalent to Shozaburo scissors and Misuya Bari needles for Kyoto and Sashiko threads will likely be out there for patrons to buy, encouraging the craft, repairs and strategies to be repeated at residence. In a partnership with London-based Studio Masachuka and sample designer Zeena Shah, costs for Sashiko stitching begin from £10.
Along with the bespoke service for patrons who carry of their present objects for consideration, Uniqlo additionally showcases and sells an unique vary of one-of-a-kind clothes prepared reimagined utilizing these strategies. Costs begin from £20.
Upcycled and repaired ‘Remake’ clothes
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In help of the entire undertaking, the model can also be providing a repair-and-care product line, together with books to supply inspiration and recommendation on extending the lifetime of your wardrobe; a service that collects clients’ undesirable clothes; recycle bins on the shop’s decrease floor flooring, with all collected clothes donated to communities in want.
Any product collected however deemed unsuitable for reuse is recycled into supplies for brand new clothes or power sources. Uniqlo even recycles its down and feathers into new clothes.
Dedicated to taking duty for the clothes it manufactures and sells, Uniqlo has been accumulating pre-worn objects from clients to be reused or recycled for over 20 years. Now, bringing its conventional Japanese values of simplicity, high quality and longevity to the fore, the Re.Uniqlo initiative offers pre-worn clothes new life and worth, and encourages longer use. Uniqlo has plans to broaden the Re.Uniqlo Studio providing throughout its shops within the UK and Europe over the subsequent 12 months.
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Upcycled and repaired ‘Remake’ clothes
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