March 07, 2005
Asia Week Runs Feature on "A Bathing Ape" Designer Nigo
As part of its Masters of Mode series four years ago that profiled rising Far East designers and tastemakers, Asia Week writer Davena Mok penned an early English-language background piece on A Bathing Ape designer Nigo. We recently found the article online again. It's a good general bio with solid details and understanding of the larger context. But it's clear Nigo controls and limits information about himself as carefully then as he does now, because Asia Week's story doesn't stray far from the standard depiction of the BAPE mastermind's modus operendi that we've read elsewhere since then. The ever secretive Nigo has sustained his brand's utter coolness partly by not giving too much away. We imagine it's all part of the master plan of taking A Bathing Ape global on the unwavering march toward world domination.
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King of the Urban Jungle [Asia Week]
-RC
Posted by Ray Chan at 10:09 PM
March 01, 2005
The Bathing Ape Massive is Go!
Bathing Ape Blog launches today. Our mission--and yours, should you choose to accept it--is to follow, discover, and mostly comment on and show the latest news and information of East-West street style, culture, design, events, gear and media with a focus on Japanese designers (like Commes des Garcons, A Bathing Ape) and influential American and European brands, designer and style mavens--everything from SSURPlus, Heatherette, Alife, Built By Wendy, Modern Amusement, Adidas and Collette.
Our weblog was inspired by our environment and our travels abroad. We're based in downtown New York City, where a Busy Work Shop, a store devoted to the A Bathing Ape label, opened and where Alife has its sneaker emporium. Lower Manhattan is cynosure of street culture and style and is home to dozens if not hundreds of shops selling the best the world has to offer. Before setting up in NYC, our home was Japan, one of the world's most engaging, crazy, inspired and globally influential epicenters of popular and underground culture.
A big thanks to Air Massive and Ivan "Supercore" Corsa for plugging us into this space.
Arigatoooooo and Gambatte!
--Thurston Ali & Ray Chan, Editors
Thank you! And remember, kids: Ape shall never kill Ape!
--Thurston & Ray
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