bruce_wayne
02-07-2008, 10:12 AM
for sure it wasn't...until let's say back in 03 -04...pharrell and some other stars made this brand famous to hip hop fans that time and things changes...made the house popular outside japan
the criteria for a brand to be international are
1)big quantity of the product produced
2)mainstream design
3)ads
of course even if bape has now bape shops all over the world and not 1 just howit was until 99...none of this criteria has been accomplised in order to say bape is an international fashion brand....but the thing is that it's getting closer and closer year by year..the thing is that bape will really die if it becomes an international brand like let's say von dutch....because the exclusivity not only in quantity but also in designs will stop being....this is what nigo thinks and has not made the brand mainstream enough to become dead...but he really risks by some moves..like the expansion of bape shops that make bape more easy to other customer type of people
the criteria for a brand to be international are
1)big quantity of the product produced
2)mainstream design
3)ads
of course even if bape has now bape shops all over the world and not 1 just howit was until 99...none of this criteria has been accomplised in order to say bape is an international fashion brand....but the thing is that it's getting closer and closer year by year..the thing is that bape will really die if it becomes an international brand like let's say von dutch....because the exclusivity not only in quantity but also in designs will stop being....this is what nigo thinks and has not made the brand mainstream enough to become dead...but he really risks by some moves..like the expansion of bape shops that make bape more easy to other customer type of people