AIRism Delivers Cool Comfort from UNIQLO

Summer gets “Cool as AIRism” at UNIQLO’s scorching shindig

UNIQLO  launched the coolest and stylish underwear AIRism at 71 Gramercy on May 7, 2014. 

 The global brand gathered the biggest and brightest in Manila’s glamour scene in the grand summer party to launch AIRism, one of its leading innovations that promise to provide comfort to people everywhere, while keeping in style.

The all-star shindig showcased the next-generation innerwear in a fashion show featuring models garbed in AIRism and trendy UNIQLO apparel. After the festivities, the guests enjoyed free-flowing drinks and danced the night away to beats by DJ Nina. 

AIRism is created in accordance with UNIQLO's drive to continually offer innovative clothing to transform the lives of customers around the world, feature the latest Japanese fiber technology and incredible comfort. The high-performance fabric offers a total of eight comfort-enhancing features across men's and women's lines. They include UNIQLO's DRY and odor-control functions as well as the ability to quickly absorb and release trapped moisture and stay cool to the touch.

■ New AIRism Delivers Cool Comfort as Light as Air

AIRism succeeds UNIQLO's highly successful Silky Dry and Sarafine lines developed around the innovative concept of using ultra-fine fibers to regulate the circulation of the air trapped inside clothes. This innovation created garments that felt so light and soft to the skin that wearers forgot they were even wearing them. AIRism builds on this legacy, delivering supremely comfortable underwear with a texture that feels both soft and smooth on the skin, is cool to the touch and features UNIQLO's DRY function to quickly absorb and dry away perspiration. With AIRism established as a global strategic brand alongside the HEATTECH innerwear line for fall and winter, UNIQLO is now able to offer year-round comfort to customers around the world.

■ AIRism Endorsed by Adam Scott and Internationally Acclaimed Ballerina Polina Semionova

AIRism has received a ringing endorsement from Australian pro-golfer Adam Scott. The 2013 Master champion says, “AIRism is definitely one of my favorite items. I wear it every day. It’s a comfort thing. It’s something I’ve never experienced before." 

The campaign also features world-renowned classical ballet dancer Polina Semionova. A star of Germany's Berlin State Opera for ten years, Semionova is now a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater in New York. The celebrated dancer says, “AIRism keeps me so comfortable while I dance, that I wear it all the time.”

■ Regulation of the Moisture Trapped Inside Clothing Enhances Comfort

As temperatures and humidity rise in spring and summer, many people choose to avoid wearing an item of underwear to try and keep cool. However, wearing a single layer of clothing does not relieve people from the discomfort caused by perspiration and the moisture trapped inside clothes. By contrast, wearing just one item of AIRism underneath outerwear regulates moisture inside clothes, keeping wearers comfortable even on hot and humid summer days.

AIRism Men’s innerwear has soft fabric that hugs the body without giving the feeling of tightness or restriction.

AIRism for Women comes in colors that compliment skin tones, thereby enhancing beauty without interferring with style. 

About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing

UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under seven main brands:

Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Helmut Lang, J Brand, Princesse tam.tam, Theory, and UNIQLO. With global sales of approximately 928 billion yen for the 2012 fiscal year-ending August 31, 2012, Fast Retailing is currently the world’s fourth largest apparel retail company, 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 truly global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 1,200 stores in 14 markets worldwide including Japan, China, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and U.S. In addition, Grameen UNIQLO, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, opened its two first stores in Dhaka in July 2013. UNIQLO operates an integrated business model under which it designs, manufactures, markets and sells high-quality, casual apparel. The company believes that truly great clothes should be supremely comfortable, feature universal designs, are of high quality and offer a superb fit to everyone who wears them.

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.