https://wwd.com/feature/nigo-on-leaving-a-bathing-ape-and-the-future-6979250-313658/
View ALL 3 Photos. TOKYO — Streetwear impresario Nigo is stepping away from A Bathing Ape, the brand he founded 20 years ago, to pursue different projects, including the development of his new

https://snobhop.substack.com/p/the-resurgence-of-bape-a-case-study
After Nigo left, the brand experienced some level of success, but once fashion trends began to shift in the 2010s, BAPE started to fade from relevancy. And now BAPE's new investors have been busy and doing all that they can to -re-establish its presence in the market.

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Bape has recently been sued by Nike over its sneaker designs trademark. Let's talk about it.Is it too late? We are striving to bring you content and are not

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In 2013, NIGO left Bape and a year later became the new creative director for Uniqlo's UT brand. 2020. NIGO partnered with Louis Vuitton alongside, Virgil Abloh to create a capsule collection.

https://www.gq.com/story/nigo-kenzo-profile
The brand's ape logo was designed by Shinichiro Nakamura, an artist better known as Sk8thing, who also gave Nigo's clothing line its oddly poetic name: A Bathing Ape in Lukewarm Water.

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Since then there has been little news of further Last Orgy lines, but the brands close ties to BAPE may be one of the reasons for the draught, as in 2013 Nigo left BAPE and is now working with the

https://www.gq.com/story/nigo-on-his-new-adidas-collaboration-bape-legacy-and-the-state-of-streetwear
In 2011, after 18 years of streetwear supremacy, mononymous Japanese streetwear legend Nigo sold A Bathing Ape to Chinese apparel maker I.T Ltd. In the brand's heyday in the early 2000s, duck camo

https://thesolesupplier.co.uk/news/bape-to-kenzo-a-timeline-of-nigos-career/
Nigo is a fashion designer, DJ, record producer, and the creator of the Japanese clothing brand A Bathing Ape. Nigo was born on the 23rd of December 1970 in Maebashi, a city in the northern Kantō region of Japan. Raised by a mother who was a nurse and a father who worked as a metal fabricator, Nigo created and followed his path to becoming one

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NIGO: It's been 10 years since I left BAPE and pressed the reset button in my life. Starting a new life, HUMAN MADE, the collections at Louis Vuitton, becoming the Artistic Director of KENZO: I'm

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Bape Store Harajuku, Tokyo BAPE store deployed in Hong Kong (2006-2011). A Bathing Ape (or BAPE) is a Japanese fashion brand founded by Nigo (Tomoaki Nagao) in Ura-Harajuku in 1993. The brand specializes in men's, women's and children's lifestyle and street wear, running 19 stores in Japan, including Bape Stores, Bape Pirate Stores, Bape Kids Stores, Bapexclusive Aoyama, and Bapexclusive Kyoto.

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/nigo-biography/
According to The Wall Street Journal, Nowhere Co. (BAPE's parent company, owned by Nigo) had been suffering huge losses in the years prior to the buyout. "For the fiscal year ended Aug. 31

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/i-know-nigo-interview-1326694/
By Jeff Ihaza. March 31, 2022. Victor Victor Worldwide. When the Japanese fashion designer and cultural figure known as Nigo set out to make his first album in 20 years, he was interested in

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Nigo himself also established his personal new company Nigold on April 4, 2009. In 2010, he launched his new brand Human Made. In 2013, Nigo left Bape for good. In 2014, Nigo became the creative director for Uniqlo's UT brand. In 2020, Nigo partnered with Luxury brand Louis Vuitton alongside Virgil Abloh to create a capsule collection.

https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/fashion/becoming-nigo-the-master-of-subculture-on-finding-himself-at-kenzo
Like every other Japanese kid, Tomoaki Nagao — known now as Nigo — was obliged to wear a uniform when he was in high school in the 1980s. "The thing about uniforms is while they make everyone look the same, they also give everyone the chance to find subtle ways to express themselves.". Nigo's peers would customise their academic fits

https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a55403/bape-nigo-streetwear/
Bape in the 2000s and still today is known for full zip hoodies, Bapesta sneakers (which were modeled off Nike's Air Force 1s), the Baby Milo avatar, and of course bright colors. "This loud, gaudy

https://highxtar.com/en/a-bathing-ape-bape-30-years-of-the-empire-that-nigo-built/
BAPE is one of the world's most iconic brands. In honor of its 30th anniversary, we take a look back at how Nigo made an empire out of it. By Sagra de Manueles 05/04/2023 - 1:29 pm. Since its inception in 1993, BAPE has established itself as one of the most recognized streetwear brands in the world and certainly the most from Japan.

https://www.newyorker.com/sections/culture/ape-sounds-the-pet-project-of-the-bape-founder-nigo
In 2000, Nigo quietly produced and released an album, called "Ape Sounds.". This was well before he was a cult figure in the United States: Nigo was still establishing himself in the D.I.Y

https://www.complex.com/style/a/lei-takanashi/nigo-career-timeline
One of the biggest moves that Nigo made post-Bape was heading the creative direction for Uniqlo's UT T-shirt line. Nigo became Uniqlo UT's first-ever creative director and brought some drastic

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/bape-a-bathing-ape/
Nigo is a notorious fan of 20th century pop culture, and channelled his love for the 1968 film Planet of the Apes in the name and iconic BAPE logo, as well as referring to the Japanese idiom 'A

https://www.reddit.com/r/bapeheads/comments/1ddlzvw/how_yall_feel_about_this/
A BATHING APE® (BAPE) is a Japanese clothing company founded by NIGO in 1993. The company specializes in lifestyle and street wear. This subreddit is for legit checks, brand updates, and general discussion. ... but noting there could be various reasons for why Nigo sold BAPE (I remember rumors that he owed the yakuza money). So the fact that

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Nigo was a man of many trades; he started a record label, he use to own a club and be his own dj there, started opening up a lot of bape locations, also he had restaurants that were called bape cafes, he had a bape music festival, he owned clubs, and he was always investing in other franchises.

https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/kenzo-taps-ex-bape-designer-nigo-with-virgil-ablohs-blessing
Tomoaki Nagao, known as Nigo will start on 21 September, succeeding Felipe Oliveira Baptista who left in June 2021 after just three seasons. The Japanese designer, DJ and entrepreneur founded and sold streetwear brand Bape, co-created the Billionaire Boys Club brand with Pharrell Williams and most recently launched the brand Human Made.

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