Japan’s top clothing retailer UNIQLO appears to be facing competition from a gleefully Simmonsing competitor, UN!PRO.
Those whose immediate thought on seeing this is “China!” are actually incorrect for once (although China would actually have to claim this dubious ingenuity as their own) – the shop was spotted in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, where Japanese culture is high chic, but mainland style approaches to copyright were supposed to be extinct.
A normal store in Chiba, one of 700 in Japan:
Another in Paris:
With nearly 50 stores in China and another 12 in Hong Kong, 40 in Korea, and yet more in the UK, Singapore and beyond, UNIQLO (“unique clothing”) is a fast expanding international brand, but it seems Taiwanese local entrepreneurs decided they just couldn’t wait any longer…
IT’S THE UNIQLO SHOP AT LES QUATRES TEMPS IN LA DÉFENSE.
Their designs are pretty meh but that’s speaking from the perspective of a Mexican, American continent fashion is overall more garish than fashion sold in Europe.
They even kept the katakana in the logo and bothered to change “ku” to “pu” [albeit wrong].
I never thought Taiwanese had any love for the yamatos.
Well, Taiwan was a Japanese colony and its teens love Japanese and Korean culture, so it’s not surprising.
I’m pretty sure this is just a store made to poke-fun at the actual brand.
I mean, everyone here just poking at the fact that “ha ha ha…fail UN PRO!”
but like… it’s “UN!PRO”
Now we were only show a picture of the store banner, there is NO pictures of what the store sells.
As opposed to all the fail crap we see that’s from China, where there is actually actual more things to show why it fails, this is just a sign or banner.
For all I know, it’s a store with its name made to poke fun at the real brand name.
Competition is good.. What is the present?
Does anyone have an address of this place? I want to go check it out and see what they carry.
Taipei’s supposed to be getting a real UNIQLO this fall, though.