BAPE T-Shirt Tulip Logo Tee Ladies
$99.00
Check out t-shirt fashion trends lately and you can’t miss the attention BAPE is getting. Their t-shirts are at a shockingly high price point at first, due to them being probably the most hyped street wear on the planet. But, tak a longer look and you’ll notice BAPE’s high quality construction, and very popular, very cool, original designs.
BAPE is a renowned Japanese streetwear brand, also known as A Bathing Ape. Founded in 1993 by NIGO, it’s celebrated for its loud, colorful designs, iconic prints, and signature shark hoodies. BAPE is known for its brash, bold aesthetic and is considered a cultural phenomenon within the streetwear community.
BAPE has expanded beyond clothing, offering a range of products like accessories, collaborations with other brands, and even consumer goods like E-Smokers.
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Origins of the Iconic BAPE Logo
Like most of the Japanese streetwear icons, BAPE’s roots can be traced back to the ura-Harajuku scene of the early ’90s. Most of today’s heavyweights — Shin Takazawa of Neighborhood, Tetsu Nishiyama of WTaps, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Sk8thing and so on — were actually a group of friends in the same scene, each doing their own thing and helping each other out along the way.
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 bathing ape in lukewarm water.’ The phrase is used to describe somebody who overindulges, like lying in a bath until the water isn’t even hot anymore, so was an almost tongue-in-cheek reference to the same hyper-consumptive youth that would eventually form the cornerstone of his brand.
