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on the left, we have past tees from junk food<\/a>.
\non the right, we have the summer ’10 ut all stars by uniqlo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

i am pretty sure that’s not a co-incident. but uniqlo never claimed to be original. indeed, their mission statement is ‘to continuously provide fashionable, high quality, basic casual wear at the lowest prices in the market – casual wear that anybody can wear whenever and wherever.’ if you are in their way, then good luck to you.<\/p>\n

do you know:<\/strong> uniqlo is short for unique clothing warehouse, and it was supposed to be uni.clo. when they commissioned their hong kong agent to register the name for hong kong and the greater china area, he made the mistake. however, when it was reported to tadashi yanai san, he thought the ‘q’ instead of the ‘c’ more unique, more lively, and more ‘cute’. and he renamed all stores to uniqlo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

on the left, we have past tees from junk food. on the right, we have the summer ’10 ut all stars by uniqlo. i am pretty sure that’s not a co-incident. but uniqlo never claimed to be original. indeed, their mission statement is ‘to continuously provide fashionable, high quality, basic casual wear at the lowest 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