Uniqlo U Autumn/Winter 2022 Invites You To Consider A More Concise, Decoded Wardrobe
โ€” 7 October 2022

Uniqlo U Autumn/Winter 2022 Invites You To Consider A More Concise, Decoded Wardrobe

โ€” 7 October 2022
Randy Lai
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Randy Lai

With the deluge of shitty weather that has been battering Australiaโ€™s eastern seaboard, one could be forgiven for thinking that weโ€™re still very much in a period of post-winter transition. All the more reason to hop over to one of Uniqloโ€™s global e-stores and take stock of the new Uniqlo U Autumn/Winter 2022 collection โ€“ designed, as always, under the guiding intelligence of French fashion designer Christopher Lemaire.

Having acquired legendary status for his work in the mid-2010s as artistic director at Hermรจs, Lemaire has been part of Uniqloโ€™s wider brain trust of heavyweight designers since 2015 โ€“ when he and life/work partner Sarah-Linh Tran unveiled their first Uniqlo U collaboration.

For Autumn/Winter 2022, the pieces are in line with what keen fashion observers would expect from the minds behind Lemaireโ€™s namesake label: effortless, thoughtfully considered garments made here with materials and constructions that are easy to wear, never mind affordable.

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Uniqlo U Autumn/Winter 2022
As in previous Uniqlo U collections, Lemaire continues to place โ€œa reduced emphasis on genderโ€ with the Autumn/Winter 2022 wardrobe. The new designs are made with unisex wear in mind, providing multiple opportunities for enjoyable couplesโ€™ dressing.

Guided by Uniqloโ€™s philosophy of indispensable daily clothing (marketed by the brand as โ€˜LifeWearโ€™) Lemaire and his cohorts have put together one of the most concise Uniqlo U collections to date โ€“ the result, at least in part, of a decision to make a substantial chunk of the product line-up unisex.

Taking the idea of your significant other nabbing your favourite sweatshirt to new heights, Lemaire remarked that Uniqlo U Autumn/Winter 2022 โ€œ[felt] like a natural evolution of how we and the people around us dressโ€. โ€œWe think a lot about the concept of a refined wardrobe,โ€ Lemaire says. โ€œEach piece should have a very precise function, being of use on its own but also working together by layering to create new functions.โ€

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That quality of versatility and interdependence is most apparent in the collectionโ€™s cut-and-sewn layers: tees and overshirts in lovely, liberatingly large silhouettes hint at Lemaireโ€™s own flagship (without going overboard on the conspicuous asymmetry for which the latter brand is known).

In a colour palette that Lemaire and his team have dubbed โ€œrich and refined neutralsโ€, practically every article that makes up the winter collection can find a place in the modern urbaniteโ€™s wardrobe. The definitive example of that? According to Lemaire, the pocketable long coat: an outerwear layer fashioned out of water-repelling polyamide, in Uniqloโ€™s signature self-storage construction. โ€œIt can be worn in so many ways,โ€ says Lemaire. โ€œBy everybody, no matter their age or gender.โ€

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Following 6 years in the trenches covering consumer luxury across East Asia, Randy joins Boss Hunting as the team's Commercial Editor. His work has been featured in A Collected Man, M.J. Bale, Soho Home, and the BurdaLuxury portfolio of lifestyle media titles. An ardent watch enthusiast, boozehound and sometimes-menswear dork, drop Randy a line at randy@luxity.com.au.

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