Today, international clothing retailer UNIQLO announces the global release date of new T-shirts with designs by Pablo Picasso, the 20th-century art revolutionary. One design for UNIQLO's PEACE FOR ALL charity T-shirt project and four designs for its "UT" graphic T-shirt brand will be part of the new collection, which will go on sale on Friday, March 14th, 2025.
Picasso will be featured on the new T-shirts for the first time ever, and they are part of UNIQLO's most recent collections featuring internationally recognized artists. The cooperation of the Estate of Pablo Picasso, who uphold UNIQLO's longstanding mission to improve society and the world, made this unique partnership possible.
The collection's PEACE FOR ALL T-shirt (left) features the artwork Bouquet of Friendship (1958), which was made for the 1958 Stockholm peace demonstration. PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts are sold with all proceeds going to global humanitarian organizations.
Four paintings by Picasso from the 1920s to 1940s, when he was at his most varied and inventive, will be included in the UT collection. Dove of Peace (1949), which presents a white dove as a symbol of peace and was selected as the emblem for the First International Peace Conference in Paris in 1949, is one of the artworks on display. With these new PEACE FOR ALL and UT T-shirts, Picasso's lifelong advocacy for global peace is expressed through artwork that defies artistic conventions and still appeals to a wide range of people.
About PEACE FOR ALL
The PEACE FOR ALL project, launched in June 2022, features graphic T-shirts with designs expressing a wish for peace, which are provided voluntarily by contributors with close ties to UNIQLO who support the aim of "taking action with a desire for world peace." All profits from sales of PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts are donated to international humanitarian organizations. To date, a total of 42 contributors have provided T-shirt designs, with more than 6.28 million shirts sold, raising more than JPY 1,883 billion in donations. The funds raised are provided to three partner organizations to support emergency humanitarian assistance, to protect the lives of displaced people around the world, and to aid children who are facing difficult circumstances due to conflicts or other issues. (Figures as of November 2024.)
PEACE FOR ALL T-shirt
Picasso's 'Bouquet of friendship' portrays two hands grasping a vibrant bouquet of flowers, and was originally created by the artist for the 1958 Peace Conference in Stockholm. As a symbol of peace, 'Bouquet of friendship' encourages us to pause and consider the importance of connection and kinship in the creation of peace - a message communicated by Picasso through his support for the peace movement throughout his lifetime.
UT T-shirts
Product name ： PEACE FOR ALL Charity T-shirt
Launch date ： Friday, March 14, 2025
Price ： PHP 790
Sizes ： XS-3XL (Sizes available in stores are XS-XL)
Availability ： UNIQLO stores and the online store
Product website ： https://www.uniqlo.com/peace-for-all/
Pablo Picasso / Artist
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker born in Málaga, Spain. In 1900 at age nineteen, Pablo Picasso made his first visit to Paris, where he was based from1904 through the 1940s. Paris is also where he spent his formative “Blue Period” and “Rose Period” and became known as a founder of the Cubist movement which fundamentally revamped the way that objects are perceived. His endless search for new modes of expression led him beyond the world of painting into the realms of sculpture, ceramics, literature and music, leaving a deep impression across the whole of modern art.
Donation recipients
UNIQLO parent company Fast Retailing contributes all profits from the sale of PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts (equivalent to 20% of the selling price) to three international non-profit organizations through their representatives. Donations are used to fund activities for international peace.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency www.unhcr.org
UNHCR protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. They work in over 130 countries, protecting millions of people by responding with life-saving support, safeguarding fundamental human rights and helping them build a better future.
Save the Children https://www.savethechildren.net/
Save the Children is an international NGO that works to save and improve children's lives around the world and ensure children's rights to survival, education, and protection are a reality worldwide. It was established in the UK in 1919 and currently operates in about 120 countries.
Plan International www.plan-international.org/
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children's rights and equality for girls in more than 80 countries. They strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, their supporters and partners.
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 3.1 trillion yen for the 2024 fiscal year ending August 31, 2024 (US $21.39 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2024 rate of $1 = 144.9 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 2,500 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe and North America. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing's brands is now close to 3,600.
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 Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.
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