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Ever wished you could rep BAPE while playing UNO? I can’t say I have, but for diehard fans of the brand, BAPE is releasing a custom deck of UNO cards — so you can skip, reverse, and draw four in style. The special deck stars the instantly recognizable BAPE APE, SHARK, and Baby Milo motifs. The collab doesn’t […]

A Bathing Ape’s BAPE STA is an enigma in the world of streetwear. The icon is lauded not for its originality, but the absolute opposite. It embodies the irreverent streetwear mentality, cutting and pasting one of Nike’s most famous designs and, somehow, getting away with it. Founded in 1993 by NIGO, A Bathing Ape is […]

BAPE and COMME des GARÇONS CDG, two behemoths of Japanese streetwear, are reuniting on another logo-heavy collaboration. On September 4, the duo will release a fairly approachable lineup of co-branded staples including graphic T-shirts, accessories, and — most notably — a pair of camouflage BAPE STAs. The pieces don’t differ much from BAPE x CDG’s previous […]

Brand: BAPE x Reebok Model: Club C, Instapump Fury Release Date: August 31 Buy: Footdistrict Editor’s Notes: Can’t have too much of a good thing, right? Picking up right where last year’s collab left off, the duo are back in action with a fresh set of collaborative Reebok silhouettes. There’s not much new ground being […]

For Fall/Winter 2021, cult-favorite label BAPE‘s premium line, BAPE BLACK, is paying tribute to jazz clubs through elevated streetwear staples. Jazz was developed from blues and ragtime and originated from the African-American communities in the Southern United States. Its constant evolution saw a revolutionary period in the 1960s, which made way to jazz fusion, where […]

Brand: BAPE x Timberland Buy: Online and in-store at Timberland, as well as at select BAPE stockists on August 21 Editor’s Notes: Following collaborations with Havianas, Coach, ASICS, and of course, Highsnobiety, BAPE is teaming up with Timberland for Fall/Winter 2021. BAPE’s Japanese streetwear heritage is matched with Timberland’s craftsmanship and comes together to reinterpret two […]

Etched somewhere in the playbook for how to keep your brand fresh is a chapter about the power of collaboration. The possibility of repositioning your brand — emphasizing a side to it that your customers rarely get to see — should not be underestimated. And, since we live in a time where collaboration’s boundaries are […]

We’ll always be here for sneakers, but this summer we’ve enjoyed seeing the rise of more appropriate summer footwear, from mules and slides to techy sandals and even flip-flops. Flip-flops, in particular, might seem a less “conventional” city footwear choice because of their minimal build and strong ties to beach culture. But it’s exactly that minimalist […]

Brand: BAPE x Medicom Toy x Hajime Sorayama Buy: BAPE’s web store and shops from July 31 Editor’s Notes: Hajime Sorayama is reaching the kind of streetwear renown that used to be exclusive to the likes of KAWS and Takashi Murakami. The 74-year-old’s career took a pretty major turn after that show-stopping Dior collaboration: in […]

For its latest collection, Coach has once again teamed up with BAPE for a collaborative range featuring accessories, apparel, and shoes – including a denim-clad iteration of the signature BAPE STA sneaker. Merging inspiration from their respective hometowns, Tokyo and New York, the shoe combines BAPE’s streetwear aesthetic and Japan’s vast denim history with Coach’s […]

Founded in 1993 in Tokyo, A Bathing Ape is one of the most elusive — and, so it follows, desirable — streetwear labels in the game. During the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, BAPE’s popularity hit fever pitch with hip-hop endorsements leading the charge. Represented by names like Pharrell and Kanye, A Bathing Ape was […]

Brand: BAPE x Mastermind x Dr. Martens Model: 1461 Shoe Release Date: June 26 Price: TBC Buy: BAPE, Mastermind, Dr. Martens, and select retailers What We’re Saying: Three-way collaborations usually don’t work so well, but BAPE, Mastermind, and Dr. Martens have pulled off the improbable. Dr. Martens has teamed up with both BAPE and Mastermind in […]