Global apparel retailer UNIQLO announces the launch of the UT Grand Prix 2024 T-Shirt Design Competition, using T-shirts as a blank canvas to freely express ideas with graphics and messages. Entries are invited from around the world on the theme of“DISCOVERIES OF THE LOUVRE”with submissions accepted starting today. UNIQLO and the Musée du Louvre formed a partnership in 2021 including a series of collaborative collections from UT, as well as support from UNIQLO for educational programs held at the Louvre. This competition is made possible by the Louvre and UNIQLO, which share a common desire to convey the wonders of historical art to people around the world.
A unique theme that includes all the artworks in the Louvre
For more than eight centuries, the Louvre has been a place of inspiration for all manner of creators, from artists and architects to dancers and musicians. It remains so today, and all works from the museum's extensive collection can be used as a source of inspiration in this competition. Contestants are invited to discover the entirety of the Louvre’s collections by freely creating designs using the museum’s artworks, including its lesser-known works, thanks to the website collections.louvre.fr, a platform launched by the Louvre on 2021 that brings together all of the museum’s artworks in one place.
Except the exterior of the Louvre, the Louvre Pyramid, the Louvre logo, and works not in the public domain.
Winning design to be sold at UNIQLO stores worldwide
The Grand Prix winner will receive U.S. $20,000 and have their winning design featured in the 2024 Spring/Summer UT collection, sold at UNIQLO stores worldwide. Additionally, the Grand Prix winner will be invited on a private tour of the Louvre.
About the UT Grand Prix
UNIQLO launched the annual UT Grand Prix Design Competition in 2005 to foster creativity and talent. The contest is open to talented and imaginative people around the world, regardless of age, gender, or nationality. Previous contests have featured such high-profile themes as Marvel, Nintendo, and Pokémon. The winning designs, selected from the numerous entries, will be produced as actual merchandise, and sold worldwide.
UT Grand Prix 2024 Submission Overview
Partnership between UNIQLO and the Musée du Louvre
The partnership between UNIQLO and the Louvre began in January 2021, and has included a series of ongoing collaboration collections from UT, as well as educational programs at the Louvre sponsored by UNIQLO. In addition, the UNIQLO Rivoli store, opened near the Louvre in 2021, hosts special exhibitions and workshops made possible by this collaboration, part of an effort by UNIQLO to allow customers to experience art at its stores. 07/20/2023 (The Lifestyle Portal)
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
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