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Uniqlo Pays Homage to Charles and Ray Eames

Work from everyone's favorite midcentury design couple now graces mass-produced apparel
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A t-shirt depicting iconic chairs by Charles and Ray Eames.Photo: Alex John Beck

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Everyone’s favorite midcentury-modern chairs just went mass-market fashion. Uniqlo has announced the SPRZ NY Eames Collection, launching October 12 on uniqlo.com and at select stores starting Friday, October 13. The collaboration pays homage to the iconic designs by Charles and Ray Eames. In the collection, a group of white Eames wire chairs is placed on a black T-shirt; three silhouettes of DCW chairs in orange, red, and black grace a gray T-shirt. The Eames’ signature triangle pattern becomes the print for slippers and a throw. The Eames dot design also found its way onto a blanket and slippers.

The Eamses graphic, triangle pattern on shirts, a blanket, and slippers.

Photo: Alex John Beck

The Eames dot design on a blanket and T-shirt.

PHoto: Alex John Beck

SPRZ NY, an abbreviation of Surprise New York, is Uniqlo’s global project that fuses art and fashion together. Usually created in collaboration with New York’s Museum of Modern Art, past SPRZ NY collaborations have included T-shirts that feature work by artists like Anni Albers, the fabric artist who hails from the Bauhaus; Pop Art icon Andy Warhol, whose Statue of Liberty is immortalized on a T-shirt; and pop artist Keith Haring, who contributed a  graphic New York apple illustration to the project.

Like Charles and Ray, Uniqlo aims to bring simple, well-designed products to the masses at affordable prices. The collection ranges from $14.99 for a t-shirt to $19.99 for a blanket. Those who want to shop for the collection in person must be in Chicago or New York—it’s only available in New York at 34th Street, SoHo, and Fifth Avenue, and all Chicago stores.