Exclusive collection available from December 13
December 9, 2024, Kuala Lumpur – Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today announces the launch of a special UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) collaboration collection with the universally popular animated series SpongeBob SquarePants and the zeitgeist defining brand Cactus Plant Flea Market, who continue to captivate fans around the world with their unique worldview. Items including T-shirts, hoodies, caps, and original toys will be available at UNIQLO stores starting Friday, December 13 in Malaysia.
The collection features Cactus Plant Flea Market’s instantly recognisable style, as well as their signature “double vision” motif applied to SpongeBob, Patrick and the rest of the characters from SpongeBob SquarePants. This limited-edition three-way partnership celebrates classic moments from the series that created a global language among fans. By highlighting these moments, the collection is a wearable retrospective in Cactus Plant Flea Market’s signature hand style and humor to totally reimagine the residents of Bikini Bottom.
SpongeBob SquarePants has become a cultural phenomenon beloved by generations, now recontextualized by the fine artist and modern pop culture fixture Cactus Plant Flea Market for this special UT collection, exclusively available from UNIQLO.
■Take a picture with oversized original toys at the UNIQLO Fahrenheit88 and UNIQLO The Exchange TRX store!
Oversized versions of the SpongeBob and Patrick original toys will be on display at the UNIQLO Fahrenheit88 and The Exchange TRX store from December 9 (Monday) to December 13 (Friday).
UNIQLO Fahrenheit88
UNIQLO The Exchange TRX
Collaboration Overview
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Launch date |
December 13, 2024 |
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Product lineup |
T-shirts /ADULTS (4 designs) XS-3XL RM 59.90; Hoodies /ADULTS (3 designs) XS-3XL RM 149.90; UV Protection Cap / ADULTS (1 design) RM 79.90 |
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Store availability |
All UNIQLO stores in Malaysia and uniqlo.com.my (UV Protection Cap is only available in selected stores) |
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Special website |
Product Lineup
T-shirts, hoodies, and a cap, along with original collectible plush toys. T-shirts and hoodies are also available in kids’ sizes, allowing the collection to be enjoyed by families.
▲ T-shirt
▲ Hoodie
▲ Cap
▲ Original Toys
▲ Kids
About SpongeBob SquarePants
Since its launch July 17, 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has generated a universe of beloved characters, pop culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical and a global fan base. SpongeBob SquarePants is one of the most widely distributed properties in Paramount history, seen in more than 180 markets, translated in 30+ languages, and averaging more than 90 million total viewers every quarter. SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, California. The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurable optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his undersea friends.
About Paramount Consumer Products
Paramount Consumer Products oversees all licensing and merchandising for Paramount, a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by a diverse slate of consumer brands, Paramount Consumer Products’ portfolio is based on content from platforms including Paramount+, CBS (including CBS Television Studios and CBS Television Distribution), cable networks (including MTV, Nickelodeon and Showtime), and Paramount Pictures. Additionally, the division operates Paramount Game Studios. With properties spanning animation, live-action, preschool, youth and adult, Paramount Consumer Products is committed to creating the highest quality products for some of the world’s most beloved, iconic franchises.
About Cactus Plant Flea Market
CACTUS PLANT FLEA MARKET is a brand and creative outlet founded in 2015 by the multi-disciplinary fine artist CACTUS PLANT. Not much else is known about the enigmatic brand or artist, but their work can be seen via limited releases of products and their extensive collaboration with their friends and partners.
The globally renowned artist and their namesake brand has become one of the most notable influences in culture, art, fashion and lifestyle today.
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.
