After the sale, the founder worked as a creative director for two years and left it in 2013. In 2011, the company moved to the fashion conglomerate IT Group. The Kyoto store also contains a gallery and serves as a venue for shows, meetings, and other events. The fashion company owns 19 retail outlets, including overseas – in major cities such as Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, London, New York, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, etc. The brand’s founder is Tomoaki Nagao (stage name Nigo), DJ, designer, entrepreneur.

BAPE (or A Bathing Ape) is a Japanese urban style clothing brand that emerged in 1993 in Ura-Harajuku.