Tetsuya Nishimiya Announced as BAPE(R) & URSUS BAPE(R) Designer

by Staff, May 24, 2009

tetsuya nishimiya wtaps bape Tetsuya Nishimiya Announced as BAPE(R) & URSUS BAPE(R) Designer

With swirling speculation about who would take the reigns since NIGO(R)’s stepping down from A Bathing Ape, a familiar personality in the realm of streetwear in WTAPS’ Tetsuya Nishiyama has officially been announced via NIGO(R) himself as the new design face of the brand. With his involvement coming to light in the winter collection, there also looks to be the development of a new line titled URSUS BAPE(R). With a well-documented aesthetic in WTAPS, we look forward to seeing the progression and different traits that A Bathing Ape will assume under TET-san.

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16 Responses

  1. Posted by: smoke -a-lot on May 27, 2009 at 5:57 am

    AMERICA’S GOT OBAMA , AND NOW BAPE’S GOT TET.

    IT’S TIME TO CHANGE BAPE, “YES, TET CAN!”

  2. Posted by: yeks on May 25, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    oh, yeah….i don’t mean that the quality itself is bad.

    Tetsuya Nishimiya is not that bad of a designer but im sure you like Bape wear…you hate him taking over.

    He’s plain and wont deliver that edge Bape always had.

    At this rate, i might totally convert to Neighborhood or Ice Cream/BBC.

    But really, don’t give it to him. or give the position to Pharrell or something.

  3. Posted by: yeks on May 25, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    ok, most of you guys dont even know what your talking about.

    Have any of you even seen this kids designs?
    He’s basic and old.

    Bape won’t have the clean and ‘huh’…when you see it anymore.

    Those classic hoodies are gonna just be brown with poor quality.

    And the shirts are just not gonna be the same anymore.

    I hope they don’t hand 100% of the companies design job to him.

  4. Posted by: edward on May 25, 2009 at 3:50 am

    Besides w)taps hope TET can handle bape as well Hiroshi san who handle many brands at the same time

  5. Posted by: joe on May 25, 2009 at 1:54 am

    bape will be back on top after this

  6. Posted by: dee on May 24, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    looks like this niggas gonna give bape the CPR it desperately needed

  7. Posted by: jaws on May 24, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    OMG YESSSSSSSSSS, i just busted a nut all over my roommates, TETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

  8. Posted by: gch on May 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Future

  9. Posted by: gripholla on May 24, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Hopefully this will make thing more expensive in these economic tmes making it harder for people to get and making those of us who an even more cooler!

  10. Posted by: DB4D on May 24, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    A great chance for Bathing Ape to become cool again

  11. Posted by: TZA on May 24, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    I’m interested.

  12. Posted by: ｓｘｍ on May 24, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    He directed only URSUS BAPE(R) line. Not every bape line.

  13. Posted by: vonfranz on May 24, 2009 at 11:59 am

    this actually looks promising…hopefully we’ll get some of that old-school militaristic feel that wtaps and o.g. bape have, and less of these weird ideas that seem like they were designed on a whim (cow parka, camo overlaid with stars or plaid)

  14. Posted by: In Tokyo on May 24, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Let’s hope he can bring some innovation to the brand. Lately, there’s been a lot of repetition going on.

  15. Posted by: SAC on May 24, 2009 at 11:17 am

    This is momumental.

  16. Posted by: Christopher on May 24, 2009 at 11:11 am

    one word… YAAAY!