Re.Uniqlo restore store helps Uniqlo clothes stay longer
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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 gadgets in circulation for longer, maximising their myriad prospects.
A devoted house for pursuing a brand new future for garments, the primary Re.Uniqlo Studio opened on the decrease floor ground 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 prospects 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 prospects with a spot to herald any liked Uniqlo gadgets that require mending or altering, the studio’s educated workers will deal with every thing from hemming trousers and stitching buttons to patching holes and stitching tears. Costs begin from simply £3.
The model has all the time 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 unique Grade I-listed artwork deco options) additionally consists of an elevated, artistic service turning current Uniqlo attire into contemporary new gadgets by means of a bunch 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 prospects to fix, adorn and upcycle garments, preserving them wearable and in use for longer. Instruments similar to Shozaburo scissors and Misuya Bari needles for Kyoto and Sashiko threads might be out there for patrons to buy, encouraging the craft, repairs and methods to be repeated at dwelling. 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 current gadgets for consideration, Uniqlo additionally showcases and sells an unique vary of one-of-a-kind clothes prepared reimagined utilizing these methods. Costs begin from £20.
Upcycled and repaired ‘Remake’ clothes
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In help of the entire challenge, the model can 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 prospects’ undesirable clothes; recycle bins on the shop’s decrease floor ground, 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 amassing pre-worn gadgets from prospects 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 following 12 months.
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Upcycled and repaired ‘Remake’ clothes
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