BathingApe
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- MLP0
still couture brands will have $150 t-shirts. that's just as bad. but beyond that, streetwear brands like bape fall short. these high fashion labels are quality cut and sew, not a hooded sweatshirt and nike rip offs.
- e-pill0
the bape flash player was created 10 years ago.
:)
- dopepope0
Bape is practically mocking it's own customers. I passed by the store in SoHo one Saturday afternoon with a huge crowd standing outside. There were these hybrid Thug/Gangsta/Skater kids standing there with baggy clothes dripping off them and these God-Awful rainbow colored Bape sneakers that made them look like clowns. They looked completely ridiculous and there was NO possible way they were going to appear cool. But they certainly felt cool within the 15 foot radius of the store. Perhaps it's the confidence instilled by paying %500 more than one should for plastic clown shoes.
- flavorful0
I like buying expensive clothes.
Is that wrong?
I like whenever I do physical comedy bits, completely ruining the shirts too, and then for an encore of people going, 'That stain is never coming out, what is that Gucci?'
Then I rip a 100 dollar bill in half ... wait for a second, then lite 2 seperate cuban cigars in my mouth.
- lvl_130
paying %500 more than one should for plastic clown shoes.
dopepopebest summary ever! fucking perfection i tell ya'! hahaha
- MLP0
nothing wrong with expensive quality, but bape is just dumb
- mightyj0
did anyone get that downloadable file to work it just goes to a flash projector thats a white screen.
- level2b0
amen dopepope. haha
- dopepope0
I did get to attend a wonderful Sorayama exhibit in the Babe gallery in Tokyo a few years back. It was stunning.
- blackspade0
kinda cool how they've emulated the dock etc in that babe .exe
ive never bought babe - I thnk more because I didnt get it and we dont really catch onto these fad labels as much down-under, ....comming accross it with no pre concieved ideas tho, I thought the prints and gear was fairly average.
having said that I gotta have respect for nigo, ..cant knock the hussle ;)
- son0
- e-pill0
hahahahaha!!!!
:)
- OeufOeuf0
"i hope the same kind of thing never happens to supreme."
-MLP
---------------------I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...
If anything, it happened to Supreme first.
- son0
umm its happening to every industry...
i mean look at the parent corporation for petes sake
national debts not an exaggeration
- dopepope0
Supreme is still somewhat reasonably priced tho. Bape is out of control.
- son0
- MLP0
as hyphy as supreme is, its still not like bape - a company that rides the wave of the same ape, milo, etc logos and neons.
if anything, i'll give supreme more credit for employing some of the best designers doing graphics and continually delivering solid, well-made products for reasonable prices (at retail). it's definitely arose as the most prolific cool guy brand and it put downtown and its attitude on the map, but has remained solid and hasn't turned into a paordy of itself like bape. you know nigo things to himself "i wonder how much i can price this at and still sell." even though supreme fetches the same amount in the sneaker and reseller game, ts roots are in something stronger than cartoon harajuku street style.
if bape gets an award, its for moving units on the same logo and product year after year. nigo is a salesman and he's sittin pretty in the bank. bape is the dude hello kitty now. it exploded and its falling out.
- son0
here is the obvious in big bold fckin letters to the idiots
the only thing that will last to bring up the rest from the dead is the musicians
read the bible it will tell you about the musicians...
..
ok now
go back to sleep.
one.
- son0
this dude just said hyphy
oh my
- OeufOeuf0
"if anything, i'll give supreme more credit for employing some of the best designers doing graphics and continually delivering solid, well-made products..."
-MLP
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Employing some of the best designers?
Who are you talking about? None of the designs they have put out in the last 4 years was worth buying and prior to that all the designs were stolen (i'm sorry, "inspired") from other well known designs. aka, Led Zep, Santana, etc).