Bape Stores – Interior Design Video

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In case you did not know Bathing Ape is a Japanese clothing line founded by Nigo (real name Tomoaki Nagao) in 1993, which specializes in Urban and Hip Hop themed clothing. Personally I think the clothing is incredibly expensive for brightly colored and patterned sweaters and t-shirts, but what do I know?

The reason this video interests me is on a trip to Japan I was taken to a Bape Store and was stunned at the seriousness of the security and the level of mystery they enforce! First of all there was a line that literally went down a flight a stairs and around a corner. On top of that, absolutely NO PICTURES were allowed to be taken of the store front or any of the merchandise. I was snapping a picture of the sign and a security guard rushed to my side and immediately started reprimanding me and telling me, “NO pictures! NO pictures!”…Once inside individual cotton t-shirts were encased in blocks of what looked like bullet proof glass. Talk about marketing geniuses, here is the one picture I managed to take of the sign before getting jumped by the secret service!

By the way, keep in mind that the store front was just this, literally. No bells, no whistles just a block of grey concrete and these words: *A Bathing Ape “Busy Work Shop”. Suffice to say it was one of my favorite “you will not believe what I saw in Japan” stories. So feel free to watch this Youtube clip highlighting the interior design of the stores and if and when you get a chance, check out the original!

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