#90's bape

[buyyourdreamorsellyoursoul]

[awstenlookbook]

For the cover of Rock Sound May 2017 Issue 225, Awsten wears a vintage 90s 24 Hour Television X Bape yellow s/s tee shirt (no longer available).

[tvruinedmyreality]

me for The Color Blue “Keep it P” necklace line

photography by Patience Whitfield

styling by Emotions Whitfield

hair by Dar Thee Star

[brusarchive]

[calogerognvrly]

The leader of it all

[drakesmysugardaddy]

I really don’t have a life

[nativezvk]

https://soundcloud.com/zakdaddy/sets/june-8th-1998

[atunnelrat]

CULTURE

[bobsliquorstore]

Bob’s Favorite Tumblr Blogs

I always go on Tumblr for creative inspiration. We use our Tumblr as a mood board for BOB’S LIQUOR STORE. People always ask us what our inspiration for the brand, I thought I would like to share some of the blogs I frequent on the daily basis, as well as reblog to update our blog/mood board. With no further due, here is the list of our favorite Tumblr blogs:

1. @ForAllToEnvy

One of my favorite brands as well as one of my favorite Tumblr blogs to draw inspiration from. For All To Envy’s Tumblr has a lot of 90’s and East Coast nostalgia. Known for vintage clothes they resell, they also make their own merchandise as well that goes with their aesthetic. A blog devoted to the guy that likes 90’s boom-bap rap, vintage sports memorabilia, and hard to find bootleg tees. Everything from Chef Raekwon to George Constanza from Seinfeld. For All To Envy also have a physical location on La Brea in Los Angeles.

2. @deadthehype

Deadthehype is a dope curation of the hip hop culture. It has a perfect mixture of current and retro content that's relevant in today's culture. The guy that runs the Tumblr also does write-ups, expressing his opinions and experiences pertaining to music he listens to, showing vulnerability. You can easily go into a warmhole going through this blog, trust me, I did it myself.

3. @unstablefragments2

A mixture of sneakers, beautiful women, and Gundam designs, unstablefragments2 is the archetype of hypebeast Tumblr. The concoction of content is like Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, somehow it goes good together. Any sneaker head and anime lover would love this blog, a lot of inspiration I get out of this blog. Plenty pictures of the classic silhouettes of sneakers from Nike, Jordan, Addidas, Reebok, and New Balance. Sneaker photography is under appreciated.

4. @2001hz​

2001hz is dedicated to Costume design, high-end fashion, old magazine spreads, capturing the trends of the past few decades. Filled with innovative design and photography, its always good to see new posts from this page. The blog explores the Y2K movement of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Bape and other Japanese designers are in heavy rotation.

5. @gasdrawlsss

This blog feels like an intangible man cave full of vintage sports, music, beautiful women, nice cars, with a twist of Southern California aesthetic embedded into it. Definitely a cool place to get lost into, full of 90’s nostalgia making you forget what year you’re in!

6. @eightiesfan

The title of the blog is self-explanatory. I love this blog for the vintage print ads. Eightiesfan is packed with everything from the 80’s culture. It’s a great extensive study of the 80’s pop culture, everything from vintage electronic ads, film covers, pictures of models. Eightiesfan feels like a time capsule of 1980s or a digital almanac of the 80s. The vintage tech and pixel art floods the blog with dope content.

7. @yamborghini

The Tumblr blog of the infamous ASAP Yams also known as Yamborghini. Before Yam’s passing, his blog was a destination for the internet culture. This blog spawned many careers in the music and fashion worlds such as ASAP Rocky, ASAP Ferg, and Ian Connor. Yamborghini consists of old phone pictures from ASAP Yams, music, and answering questions from fans. Yams treated Yamborghini like a daily dairy documenting the life of him and his friends. Being an early ASAP Mob fan, it’s bittersweet going through Yam’s old Tumblr account. Rest In Peace ASAP Yams.

8. @macroszks

One of my favorite photography blogs on Tumblr. Mostly current content, standing out from other accounts that consist of vintage Internet images, and scans from old print. The blog owner is based out of Spain, its always good to get a foreign perspective on the American culture. His content is more current and relevant, giving a breath of fresh air.

9. @vaporwave-95

vaporwave-95 captures the early 90’s internet/computer culture. Vapor Wave is known as aesthetic for visual arts and a genre  of music that lives deep in the realms of the internet. The theme is mainly neon colors and Greek statues and checkered prints. This Tumblr page brings you back to 96 and dial-up Internet (dial-up internet probably wasn’t invented yet). Any Yung Lean fan would love this blog.

10. @consecuences​

When I'm on my emo shit I visit the consecuences Tumblr which has mostly screen shots of films with captions to go with it and lifestyle photography. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words does a picture with captions have? Most of the captions have a deep philosophical meaning to it, with life lessons in it. A good Tumblr page to get bits of life advice and excellent photography capturing everyday life.

[hilemx]

INSPIRATIONS

Michael Jackson - Bad (Clip + Album) (RIP)

Kanye West - Late Registration (my Kanye favorite album)

Joke - Vision (one of the clips that inspired us the most)

Michael Jackson - The glove

Laylow and his ambitions

Nike - Pop up store Air Max Day 2019

The Simpsons (the show I’ve watched the most)

JAY-Z - The Blueprint (my favorite rap album)

Oxmo Puccino & Mehdi Maizi - Abcdr Interview

Joke - Ateyaba (favorite French rap album), Cover realized by Ben Dorado, he is the graphic artist who inspires me the most

JAY-Z & Michael Jackson

CaminoTV (one love for Camino, they gave me too much strength)

Michael Jordan

Nike Dunk Paris (Bernard Buffet & Sneakers Culture)

Kanye West & JAY-Z - The throne 

667 ekip

J Dilla (one of our favorite beat maker/artist) (RIP)

PNL & all there visions: QLF

Tupac Shakur (RIP)

Notorious B.I.G by Chi Modu in New York (RIP Biggie & Chi Modu)

Youssouf Fofana - Maison Chateau Rouge, his vision, his collab 

Mehdi Maizi 

Michael Jackson - Bad Tour, Moonwalker, Bad Era & his career

Virgil Abloh (RIP)

Snoop Dogg by Chi Modu

Kekra - Rap de Zulu

New York seen from Brooklyn, remind the travel in 2020 - Picture from the video of Sunbeams of J Dilla, one of the beat that inspires us the most

Limontepe - Izmir

Tokyo

Driver, he gave me the right to dream

Bodega Boston, the store that inspired us the most

Martin Margiela - First fashion show

Atom : humble (s/o Kendrick Lamar)

Snapbacks (specically Boston)

Nike House of Innovation NYC/000 - The store that impressed me the most 

Bapesta College Dropout by Kanye West (Nigo, Bape, Kanye West & his work in fashion, The College Dropout album)

Seoul (s/o Pape San who inspires me a lot)

The universe & God

Boston 

Oxmo Puccino - Opéra Puccino

Alicia Keys - You don’t know my name (Clip + Song)

Time Bomb + Paris

Prince Waly : Moussa Album Classic. Prince Waly is one of the man who inspires us the most. One love.

Istanbul & 90

Pyramid

Update : 

Neefa 

LES BENJAMINS

[extrafriedrice]

90’s Bape General Coach Jacket

[dippedanddripped]

In the brief history of street culture, Hitomi Yokoyama is one of its most prominent hidden figures. If Hiroshi Fujiwara is considered the de facto “godfather of Japanese streetwear,” Yokoyama is most definitely its godmother. A contemporary of UNDERCOVER founder Jun Takahashi and Tomoaki “NIGO” Nagao — who would go on to establish A Bathing Ape and Human Made — Yokoyama was at the forefront of Tokyo’s Ura-Harajuku movement that gave rise to Japan’s cadre of covetable brands like WTAPS, Neighborhood, Bounty Hunter, and countless others.

As a teenager growing up in Tokyo’s Yotsuya neighborhood, Yokoyama became fixated with the British punk bands she saw on TV and heard on the radio. “I was listening to The Clash, Adam & The Ants, and The Sex Pistols,” she says. “The first thing in fashion I got really excited about was Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s clothing I saw Johnny Rotten wearing.”

It was through seminal Japanese magazines like Takarajima that she got put onto McLaren and Westwood’s Seditionaries clothing line and SEX shop in World’s End. She also discovered “Last Orgy,” an influential Takarajima column started by Hiroshi Fujiwara. It was basically a cheat sheet of what brands, bands, and trends were about to blow up.

But Yokoyama didn’t just read about what was cool — she lived it, too, exploring Tokyo’s underground nightlife at clubs like Picasso and Nabaron, which played everything from ska, rockabilly, and reggae to the hottest bands in London at the time. The scene got her close to Jun Takahashi and future Bounty Hunter founder Hikaru Iwanaga, who played in a tribute band called the Tokyo Sex Pistols, and NIGO, who sometimes stepped in as their drummer. Yokoyama remembers how the now-icons dressed at the time, recalling Takahashi as a would-be Johnny Rotten and Iwanaga as a stand-in for Sid Vicious.

“This kind of place was more like a culture school than just a club,” she says. It’s where she learned how to dress and met like-minded people who shared the same passions, like Vivienne Westwood and punk. “It was a real life social network in the days before the internet.”

NIGO and Takahashi had met at Tokyo’s prestigious Bunka Fashion College, the same institution that produced Yohji Yamamoto and Junya Watanabe. Yokoyama worked at a hair school in the neighborhood called Ciao Bambina, which doubled as a community hub for area youth, since their parents weren’t allowed in. NIGO got his hair cut there, and Yokoyama admits she used to steal a product called Rock Gel, a hard hair gel ideal for Takahashi’s avant-garde punk hairstyles.

At the same time, Takahashi and NIGO were becoming a dynamic duo in their own right. They had taken the reins of Fujiwara’s “Last Orgy” column and brought it to Popeye magazine (the newer, younger answer to Takarajima) under the moniker “Last Orgy 2.” It was clear they had the juice now, so under Fujiwara’s mentorship they turned their platform into a first-of-its-kind retail concept: NOWHERE.

Before that store opened, Yokoyama remembers the small network of streets as a neighborhood with hidden gems interspersed throughout. There was Hitomi Okawa’s MILK, Nobuhiko Kitamura’s Hysteric Glamour, and punk boutique A Store Robot, which Yokoyama frequented. But NOWHERE began the evolution of Harajuku’s backstreets into an in-the-know shopping destination. The shop launched both Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER and NIGO’s A Bathing Ape.

“Jun started making clothes on a domestic sewing machine, making one-off items. He was a genius at an early age,” remembers Yokoyama. “Then you had NIGO, who was a massive expert on vintage clothing and had great style.”

The Ura-Harajuku scene and the brands to emerge from it would expand from a small underground community to a huge global movement, and Yokoyama would play a crucial part in that transition when she moved to London in 1993.

“My plan was to study English and go to make up school,” she explains. “One day, I was walking down the street and I met a guy called Barnzley. He recognized my Seditionaries clothes and was very curious about my UNDERCOVER clothes.”

Fate made it so that one of the first people Yokoyama met in London was one of its most well-connected people. Simon “Barnzley” Armitage is a fixture of London’s club scene and its underground subculture. As a shop guy for Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, he took advantage of the store’s screen printer to make bootleg Chanel T-shirts before getting into deconstructing clothes. He’s donned many hats and worked on numerous projects throughout the years, including co-founding the label A Child of the Jago with Joe Corre — Westwood and McLaren’s punk progeny.

Yokoyama’s Seditionaries fit caught his eye immediately, and they connected over a shared love of clothes, music, and punk culture. Yokoyama was still looking for a room, and Barnzley actually had an opening at his flat, recently vacated by Spanish artist Luciana Martinez de la Rosa.

“I think Hitomi was quite happy to move into a flat full of cool clothes, art, and records,” recalls Barnzley. “Maybe not so happy I kept her up all night with loud music, girls, insane pop stars, and messy graffiti artists.”

Yokoyama admits she didn’t get much sleep thanks to the loud music, but describes the London she found as “like Disneyland.” With Barnzley as her cultural sherpa, she rubbed shoulders with Joe Corre, Nellee Hooper of The Wild Bunch, Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, and Paul Simonon of The Clash. Many of the figures she previously only read about, that seemed worlds away in the translated pages of Japanese glossies, now became face-to-face acquaintances.

“Everybody seemed to be a pop star, artist or model,” she says. “It was nonstop ’til 4 a.m. most nights.”

In addition to putting Yokoyama on to London’s hippest clubs and clothing stores, Barnzley also introduced her to Cuts, an underground hair salon that was pretty much the city’s answer to Tokyo’s Ciao Bambina. Founded by the late James Lebon, younger brother of fashion photographer Mark Lebon, he created a template for a new breed of alternative hairdressers. Inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, Cuts was the first in a new type of independent hairdressers whose multi-ethnic aesthetic chimed with that of Ray Petri’s wabi-sabi Buffalo style.

“It was a hub for street fashion as there were shoots for i-D and The Face. It was also where you’d find out information on clubs, clothes, and all that culture,” Yokoyama says. “Working there was more like a very fashionable club than a hairdresser. It was my introduction to fashionable London.”

International Stüssy Tribe member Michael Kopelman was also a Cuts regular. In 1989, he founded Gimme 5 as a distribution company, spreading the gospel of Japanese streetwear by introducing brands like Neighborhood, UNDERCOVER, visvim, BAPE, and Hiroshi Fujiwara’s GOODENOUGH into ahead-of-the-game boutiques like Hit and Run (later renamed The Hideout). By 1995, Kopelman and Yokoyama’s mutual appreciation had grown to the point where he felt comfortable enough offering her a job. “We were both into similar things from Japan. Nobody else in London was,” he says succinctly.

With no previous background in art (and never even having worked on a computer before), Yokoyama’s strong sensibilities informed what would become Gimme 5’s aesthetic. Inspired by everything from Eames chairs, old record sleeves, and comic books, she taught herself to use programs like Illustrator, eventually designing a Gimme 5 clothing logo cribbed from Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four comics. Her work went on to impress her friends back in Japan, leading to graphic work for UNDERCOVER, A Bathing Ape, Real Mad Hectic, and Let It Ride as well as New York brands like aNYthing.

By the mid-2000s, Yokoyama received a major profile boost when she designed a purple and maroon Air Stab for Nike’s sought-after 2006 Air-U-Breathe pack. She was inspired by the lightness of the sneaker, as well as images of rabbits and cats jumping around in her head, leading to the striking graphic on the heel she describes as “paws with eyes.” She followed it up in 2008 with a mostly gray Air Max 90 Current created under Nike’s Co-Lab program for the Beijing Olympics.

Despite her impressive pedigree, Hitomi Yokoyama’s work seems largely swept under the rug in the story of streetwear. Perhaps that’s because she’s always gone under the pseudonym “HIT.” It was a conscious decision on her part, creating an air of mystery around this cryptic, Japanese designer in the vein of a SK8THING or SKOLOCT.

“I started working with all these men’s brands and they wanted to the put the designer’s name on the shirts,” she says. “There weren’t many females around at the time, and I was worried that people from that scene would not take me seriously if they knew I was female. So with the alias HIT, I would not be discriminated against; it’s genderless.”

Yokoyama’s most prolific collabs aren’t just with products, but people. Through her friendships in Tokyo and London, she helped foster long-lasting relationships, like linking Mo Wax impresario James Lavelle and NYC graffiti writer Stash with NIGO. She also became especially close with the late, legendary stylist Judy Blame, who was the inspiration for Dior’s Fall/Winter 2020 men’s collection. Yokoyama is in the final stages of her own Judy Blame tribute, a brand called Available Nowhere that uses Blame’s archive on a series of T-shirts, jackets, shirts, and scarves.

Whatever she’s doing, Hitomi Yokoyama is eternally grateful for the chances London gave her as a wide-eyed young woman from Tokyo. She admits that if things hadn’t worked out abroad, she’d have probably moved back to Tokyo and worked at a Shinjuku sushi restaurant. Now she wants to pay that kindness forward to the next generation.

“I hope to work with artists, designers, and interesting people who might be not well-known,” she says. “I want to help young people with lots of energy learn from old people with experience.”

Words: Andy Thomas

[audiophiliacfan]

[Intro] 내가 니 놈이었다면, 그렇진 않지만 우린 마시러 갔을꺼야, 덕소 Alley Pub 이 놈을 환영했을 거야, 동네 새끼들이 니 옆에 있는거야, 곧 서울까지 먹을 prince 돈 벌어, 있어 널 사줄 충분한 사임, 세종 허나 널 가진 놈은 가장 친한 나의 애 작은 동네서 그런 감정은 타부시 돼 셔플을 추며 얻고파 너라는 프시케의 마음 [Verse 1] 너의 가슴, 이런 솔직한 나의 마음 니가 자연사 할 때까지도 모를 걸 (2AM) 노래 나의 iPhone ringtone 상하게 하고싶지 않아, 내 놈 빈정 내 놈을 배신하지 않아, 우정을 지켜 Till I die, 그건 확신해, 난 놈들뿐인 아이 맹세, 서로 충성, 걔와 난 그런 사이고, 이런 점이 딴 새끼들관 다른 멋진 차이점인걸 내 좌우명 stay fly like Three 6 Fia 멋진 의미야 Stay fly like Three 6 Fia 허나 갈피라는 것에 대해 나는 어린 미아 [Hook] Oh fuck, I want you mine 허나 you cannot I gotta make it right 근데 머문다, 자꾸 떠올린다 내 꿈에서 you calling me baby Oh fuck, I want you mine 허나 you cannot I gotta make it right 근데 머문다, 자꾸 떠올린다 내 꿈에서 you calling me baby 난 널 지워야해 그래, 난 널 지워야해 [Verse 2] 우린 달라야만 해, 마치 Bape, Polo 덕소 현대 Avante, 압구정의 Roll-Ro 허나 우린 어울려, 피아노와 첼로 H.O.T와 90’s, 보드카와 Jello 허나 반대 돼야해, 마치 남과 북한 우리 둘이 붙음 몰려오지 풍파 널 보자마자 피는 내 심장을 주파 넌 금지된 스테로이드 (나란 놈은 우사인) 내 니 놈이라면은 멋진 808에 맞춰 너랑 아니, 안돼 이럼, 아 너와 미국으로 도피해, 너와 결혼해 니 성을 구로 만들까 그런 병신같은 큰 망상도 했어 아 (아) 이런 날 용서해 (해) 사랑이라는 것 (것) 앞에선 돈은 패 내 심장 안에 이건 Avengers보다 세 Iron Man에다 곱 일십백천만억 해도 Damn, they lose 난 니 남자가 더 중요해 baby 우린 되야하지, 멋진 squad 마치 A$AP Yeah, I like ya girl I got a fuckin' problem [Hook] Oh fuck, I want you mine 허나 you cannot I gotta make it right 근데 머문다, 자꾸 떠올린다 내 꿈에서 you calling me baby Oh fuck, I want you mine 허나 you cannot I gotta make it right 근데 머문다, 자꾸 떠올린다 내 꿈에서 you calling me baby 난 널 지워야해 그래, 난 널 지워야해

[grailgallery]

Bape X Yoshifumi Egawa “A Skating Ape”, 2013 

After much anticipation and wonder, legendary brand A Bathing Ape finally unveiled the product of their collaboration with iconic 90's skater Yoshifumi Egawa with its first A Skating Ape collection. Modeled after the brand's infamous Ape Head logo -fully useable, but simultaneously appropriate for display.

https://www.grailgallery.com/

[jamilgs]

Great running into old friends and NY ex-pats while in LA. Rebel Ape, a creation by @ssur mixing Che Guevara and Cornelius from Planet of the Apes. If I’m not mistaking this predates Bape by Nigo. . . . #original #newyork #90’s #streetwear #mulberrystreet #springstreet #coneyisland #odessa #losangeles #planetoftheapes #bape #cheguevara #armyfatigue #chamo #baret #rebelape #rebels #rebellion #revolution via Instagram http://bit.ly/2J7gt3t

[voluptuarian]

1, 2 and 6 from the aesthetic ask list!

You sent these aaaages ago and I only just discovered them. Sorry for the delay!

Now, keep in mind I have a multitude of aesthetics, many of which are impossible to find anything like, or difficult to make work for street wear, but…

1) what fictional characters have inspired your aesthetic

I know there are probably more, but all I can think of right now is Daenerys Targaryen, the girls from Picnic at Hanging Rock, and just general witch/wizard aesthetic.

2) what eras define your aesthetic

Era-wise, ideally I’d like to look like a kid from 90’s/2000s Tokyo street snaps, a Byzantine noble, one of the Romanov sisters, a Minoan or Myceneaen priestess, a cyberpunk background character, or just shrouded in full-out Victorian mourning fashion.

6) what clothing item or accessory is currently the highest on your dream wishlist

Well, I finally got those Minoan bee earrings I’ve been dreaming of, so… a Bape hoodie?