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How Can Mario Shirts Cost $US175?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:40:02 +0000

Easy! Take a t-shirt and apply the Bape sub-label Baby Milo. That’s eighty bucks already. You’re almost half way there. Next, make it exclusive to the members-only online store Nigo’s Favourite Shop. Finally, add Japanese import mark up and you’ve easily reached $US175. The designs, featuring artwork from the Bape branded Nintendo DSs released earlier this year, may not be spectacular enough to warrant nearly two-hundred bucks in t-shirt purchases, but it’s not outrageous for retailers to ask this much money.

How do I know this? The shirts went online yesterday and are already sold out.

A BATHING APE [NFS Exclusive] MARIO to MILO Tee [Top] WHITE [Cliff Edge via Hypebeast]

An Even Fancier Bape DS Lite

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:20:00 +0000

The Bathing Ape/Nintendo collaboration on a limited run of DS consoles was a popular one. No, actually, not popular. Crazy popular. So one can only imagine the fervour Japanese collectors are going to whip themselves into for this: a gold one. Yes, same console, same print, just this time, it’s gold, which is the universal symbol for “betterer and more expensive”. Get a good look at it, because you’ll never own one. Ever.

?????????????????????? [Cliffedge, via Hypebeast]

Curvy Japanese Bikini Lady Shows Us Bape Nintendo DS

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000

If you’ve spent time on the Japanese nerd internet, you’ve seen images like this: Pin-up model posing with game hardware. Very common! This, this one’s got a little more. That’s curvy swimsuit model Yuuri Morishita holding the pricey and hard-to-get Baby Milo/Bape limited edition Nintendo DS. While we noticed that this DS was somewhat popular, we haven’t actually seen a non promo image of the Bape DS! So here it is. With this lady. And look at that, the limited edition DS looks like a regular DS with stickers on it. A shot of the DS on what looks like Morishita’s mattress or something.

Bape DS [Yuuri's Blog, Kinda NSFW]