{"id":25485,"date":"2011-02-02T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=25485"},"modified":"2011-02-02T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:14:35","slug":"hong-kongs-i-t-set-to-buy-japans-bape-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/hong-kongs-i-t-set-to-buy-japans-bape-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong’s I.T Set To Buy Japan’s BAPE Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can\u2019t say many of us weren\u2019t taken off guard last year when the A Bathing Ape store closed in L.A. It hadn\u2019t been open for more than 2 years, and then suddenly it vanished. Although not necessarily a pioneer of the streetwear movement, but undoubtedly a catalyst, Bape\u2019s presence and impact have reverberated throughout young men\u2019s fashion for the past decade and a half. The all-over-print hoodies, the trademark camo, Bape STA sneakers,.. they all amounted to a hype-fueled limited-edition craze, as evidenced by their impressive store lineups and the celebrities who pimped the apparel.<\/p>\n

This news started making the rounds yesterday night, but apparently I.T. (speaking of Hong Kong) has bought Nigo\u2019s label for $2.8 Million. That number doesn\u2019t exactly add up, perhaps there were debts to pay, who knows really.. but I think it\u2019s a significant bookend to a longstanding legacy. What does this mean for streetwear, and what does it mean for the direction of limited-edition menswear? Furthermore, the fact that a Chinese company has swallowed up a Japanese brand is also a telling message as to where the global economy and marketplace stand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can find out more information about the sale in an article on the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via THE HUNDREDS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t say many of us weren\u2019t taken off guard last year when the A…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-6D3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}