Only buy from our official retailers or our site or it's most likely FAKE. If you still have the urge to buy from ebay check with us first for our opinion.**It may take a while to answer your comments and messages because we get a lot. We can't give anyone free stuff and you can't order it on this site. We can't help you if you would like to be a designer and/or work for Bape, sorry.**ADD THIS BANNER TO YOUR PROFILE.COPY AND PASTE THE CODE IN YOUR PROFILE.A Bathing Ape (also know as Bape) is a Japanese clothing company created by Nigo that specializes in urban streetwear. It began in 1993 as a T-shirt brand and originated out of the Harajuku area of Shibuya in Tokyo becoming one of the very first Japanese streetwear brands to start in the early 1990s. Bape's logo and themes are all derived from the original Planet of the Apes movies. The brands name is based on a common Japanese saying,"bathing in lukewarm water", that describes the willingness of Japan's youth to follow popular trends. Bape is known for its shrewd marketing, particularly the use of very limited production runs in order to stoke demand for its product. Bape stores are also usually hard to find and are not usually marked with signs to maitain exclusivity. Many stores have a one product per person policy to prevent any of the items from appearing on the black market. Bape has become so popular in Japan that Nigo, was commissioned to design a limited edition Pepsi bottle. Over the years, Bape has extended its brand from T-shirts (Baby Milo & Bathing Ape) to other apparel such as sneakers (Bape Sta, Manhunt), jeans and even underwear. A Bathing Ape has extended beyond clothing to a hair salon (Bape Cuts), gallery (Bape Gallery), cafe (Bape Cafe), record label (Ape Sounds) and (B)apeTV. A Bathing Ape also produces limited-edition hip hop-themed vinyl figures. Although not as popular as the brand is in Japan, Bape has reached mainstream in the United States on account of popular entertainers wearing the brand such as Pharrell Williams of hip hop production duo the Neptunes, and the CEO of Def Jam Recordings,Jay-Z. Due to the success of the creative live, Pharrell has collaborated on a clothing and sneaker line with Nigo. Bape's popularity in the United States was cemented when he opened the first American Bape store in New York City in 2004.
