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United Arrows ends ASTRAET, its own 12-year brand, with the 2026 spring collection
Launched in 2014 as a specialty shop for fashion-forward adults, ASTRAET lost its last standalone store in January 2025 and ends with the 2026 spring season.
United Arrows · 2026-06
What happened
United Arrows launched ASTRAET with the 2014 spring/summer season — its own specialty brand for fashion-conscious adults, mixing original items with imported labels to put a quiet mode sensibility into daily life.
The brand contracted before it ended. Its only standalone store, at NEWoMan Shinjuku, closed in January 2025, leaving ASTRAET as a presence inside select UNITED ARROWS stores, the BEAUTY & YOUTH Nishinomiya shop and its own online store.
On 17 June 2026 the announcement came: ASTRAET ends with the 2026 spring/summer collection, twelve years after launch. Sales through UNITED ARROWS stores and online stop after the season. The brand's farewell message carried no reason — only thanks to customers who had walked the path with it.
Why it happened
- The shrink was visible before the end: standalone store gone by January 2025, the brand down to corners inside the parent's own floors.
- A house label that survives only inside its owner's stores has already lost its standalone economics.
- No reason was given — but ending with a season is a portfolio decision, not a collapse.
The lesson
Even the house's own label wasn't safe: United Arrows ran ASTRAET for twelve years, watched it shrink from a standalone store to shop corners, then ended it with the 2026 spring season.
Aftermath
ASTRAET sales through UNITED ARROWS stores and online end after the 2026 spring/summer season; no revival was announced. The brand's channels close out the season with the collection that bears its name for the last time.
Sources
- Fashionsnap — "United Arrows' 'ASTRAET' ends as a brand — 12 years from launch", 17 June 2026 (launched 2014 spring/summer as a specialty store for fashion-conscious adult men and women, proposing subtle mode sensibility in daily life, original items plus imported brands; only standalone store at NEWoMan Shinjuku closed January 2025; handled at select UNITED ARROWS stores, BEAUTY & YOUTH Nishinomiya and online; ends with 2026 spring/summer; Instagram farewell gives no reason, only thanks)
- Senken Shimbun — "United Arrows 'ASTRAET' to end with 26 spring/summer", 17 June 2026 (brand started 2014; ends with 2026 spring/summer season; sales via UNITED ARROWS stores and EC terminate after the season; NEWoMan Shinjuku standalone already closed; targeted sophisticated adults with original and purchased brands)
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