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If you or someone you've fucked has ever suffered from multicolored-sneaker addiction, it will not probs not surprise you that a story about Nigo, the Pharell-partnering Japanese "street fashion" i.e. sneakers/T-shirts entrepreneur who founded A Bathing Ape, has spent weeks tearing up the "Most Emailed List" of the website of the very-substantial mogul-targeted business magazine Portfolio. Bathing Ape is responsible for popularizing those weird multicolored "Whoa crap OVERLOAD!" printed hoodies worn by dudes way too old to be spending their money on that shit which is what makes it sort of cute, and he is also, because he is Japenese, an obsessive collector of pretty much everything too ridiculous for girls to collect (Sample quote: "And when I touch this stuff"—he carefully picks up a Colonel Sanders doll—"I feel good. I feel very alive.") Anyway, Nigo is perhaps the most important man in that realm of "fashion" beloved by guys who don't have to wear collared shirts to work, but he has some haters. More »
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