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Home  >  Fashion Labels and Fashion Brands >  Fashion Label Category U United Bamboo United Bamboo re-imagines classic American sportswear as a wide-open landscape not fenced in by the past. It is a place where clothing collections and collaborative projects grow from roots planted and nourished by design duo Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham. United Bamboo's innovative pattern making techniques and dynamic juxtapositions distort the classic sportswear tradition of American chic, creating a new mythology - one grounded in tradition, but energized by experimentation. A potent combination of playfulness, feminine instinct, form and cut makes United Bamboo one of the most imaginative and exciting new labels in fashion. Miho Aoki launched United Bamboo in 1998. A native of Japan, she came to New York in 1995 to attend FIT. Miho was formerly a design assistant at the now defunct NY based fashion/art collective, Bernadette Corp. Thuy Pham is a native of Vietnam and was the designer for Bernadette Corp. As United Bamboo they continue to expand their conceptual reach through collaborations with a diverse community of artists. Recent projects have featured curators James Fuentes, Hiroshi Sunairi, and Daniel Reich selecting artists Spencer Sweeny, Brian Degraw, Tracy Nakamura, Sissel Kardel to create designs for a series of t-shirts. Other projects include a compilation of the music of avant-garde musicians organized by Hisham Baroocha from the band Black Dice and a series of hand painted scarves by a group of young painters. The first United Bamboo store, designed by Vito Acconci, will open in Mid-September 2003 in Tokyo, Japan. Added on: 18-4-2004 Hits: 1369