Nike officially filed a formal complaint against BAPE in New York, alleging that the company has been using their "asserted trademarks" on the Air Force 1, Air Jordan 1 and Nike Dunk to create ...

Following their debut collaboration at the beginning of the fall, Nigo and Nike are bringing back their Air Force 3 with a new colorway and a campaign that invokes his history with Bape.

Bape’s most famous sneakers waned in popularity at the end of the 2000s; their shape shifted to look less like the Air Force 1 in 2010s; and then, in the 2020s, they seemed set for a resurgence.

Nike claimed that BAPE's footwear business "revolves around copying Nike's iconic designs," and that some of its shoes are "near verbatim" copies of Nike's Air Force 1, Air Jordan 1, and Dunk ...

NIGO has once again partnered with Nike, and the result is the Air Force 3 Low x NIGO Black-White. A Bathing Ape (BAPE) creator NIGO who is also a DJ has a deep appreciation for the old school Hip ...

The document includes a full-page chart, with photos, comparing a handful of both brands’ most popular shoes—A Bathing Ape’s Bapestas next to Nike’s Air Force 1s, Bape Sk8 Stas alongside ...

especially given some of the friction between the brand and his beloved Bape over the years—the Bapesta is, after all, a bootleg of Nike’s Air Force 1 and has never played coy over that fact.

Air Force 1s. But only a choice few remain more colorful in the imagination than the camo Bape hoodie zipped up all the way to the top. Though created in Japan, far from the centers of hip-hop ...

KAWS x Nike Air Force 1 Low Supreme – 2008 The Nike 1World ... Throughout 2006, KAWS and NIGO of BAPE launched a ridiculous amount of BAPESTA iterations that centered upon the Brooklyn-based ...