Uniqlo Basquiat and Keith Haring Shirts

Uniqlo the Gap? of Japan, is sending waves through out New York and London. Expansion has become the keyword in the Uniqlo offices, the company plans on expanding its chain stores throughout America and Europe. Uniqlo is known for putting out high quality clothing with unique designs. One of Uniqlo's most successful lines is the UT Project that started last year. Its a shirt line that was introduced in the Tokyo UT project store and in Uniqlo?s New York flag ship store. UT Project shirts are high quality shirts with the works of photography digital media and street art. All collaborated with well known artist from all over the world. Terry Richardson, Enlightenment, T26/Neil Summerour, Sunday Vision, Yoshitaka Amano, Daido Moriyama, ECM Records,Yayoi Kusama, Osamu Tezuka, Nobuyoshi Araki, Ten_Do_Ten, Wonderwall, Los Logos, Delta Boris Tellegen, Minoru Hagiwara and tons more. Uniqlo is holding a competition called the Uniqlo Creative Award, which is a competition among artist who submit shirt designs
and the winner is selected by a nine person team of judges. The committee selected 27 winners for the 2007 contest. The 27 winners will get the opportunity to have their designs available at the UT Project stores in Tokyo and New York. Uniqlos Spring and summer 2008 line should be a great success. They plan on putting out shirts with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.