concepts by nicole mclaughlin.

how japanese streetwear brand bape blends hip-hop with iconic fashion

japanese fashion designer tomoaki nagao, better known as nigo, is renowned for being the founder and creative director of the japanese streetwear brand a bathing ape, which is commonly referred to as bape.

since its founding in 1993, bape has established itself a cult-like following in japan which allowed it to cross over to the u.s. market, making itself into one of the most iconic streetwear brands.

in the early 2000s, bape was one of the most coveted fashion brands in the entire world, and nigo’s position in the fashion industry allowed him to collaborate with artists like pharrell williams and hiroshi fujiwara, to name a few. these collaborations have allowed him to illustrate his creative influences and artistry in unique ways and showcase his wide array of influences and inspirations.

Fucking on your thot, we in Cancun!*++

i love looking back on shit i did as a kid and realizing… oh that was gay. i was a lesbian child

I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet.

Kaia Gerber for Marc Jacobs. 🦋

Just because its not happening here doesn’t mean its not happening

Fuck

My heart omg

me

when i was a baby i thought big words and oxford commas and kcup coffee machines make u smart. you know what makes you smart? loving ur friends.

someday im gonna have a wife and we’re gonna live in an apartment that has a garden on the roof and every day we’ll care for our sunflowers and strawberries, and in the morning when she goes off to work ill pack her a lunch with notes abt how much i love her inside, and when she comes home, tired, ill give her kisses and cook her dinner. and at night we’ll look at the stars through our skylight. we’ll sing each other songs and have really good sex, and maybe we’ll raise kids, and we’ll teach then to be unapologetic about who they are, and to love themselves and the world around them, and they will be incredible. and we will all be revolutionaries. our love will heal our worlds.

i want that really cliché friend group who takes long drives together and takes pictures of each other when they’re not looking and goes on random picnics and visits museum together fuck i want it so bad where y’all at

But baby I can’t get over your eyes.

employer: so how do you like working here!

me:

What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: Jim wrote Pam a Christmas card telling her how he felt in season 2 and was too afraid to give it to her then but kept it for 7 seasons and gave it to her in season 9 when he needed to prove to her how much she meant to him wow I’m actually not fine.

U KNOW UR IN DEEP WHEN U READ THEIR HOROSCOPE TOO