Product Description
The BAPE Japanese Tattoo Logo Tee White is an SS24 release from A Bathing Ape, released July 27, 2024 at $65, applying the visual tradition of Japanese tattooing to the brand's BAPE logo in a graphic tee format that draws directly on the cultural context in which the brand was founded. As confirmed on the official BAPE Japan English product page, the Japanese Tattoo Logo Tee is constructed from original USA cotton in a regular fit with the brand logo on the left chest and the back arranged in a Japanese tattoo style, with an Ape Head motif rubber-printed on the left sleeve and the APE HEAD regular fit silhouette. The international BAPE product page confirmed the construction details as 100 percent cotton in a relaxed fit with Japanese tattoo print and logo detailing. BAPE, founded by Nigo in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo in 1993, has maintained a consistent connection between Japanese cultural heritage and Western street culture influence throughout its thirty-plus-year history, and the Japanese Tattoo Logo Tee represents one of the brand's periodic returns to that specific cultural combination: the Irezumi tradition of Japanese tattooing, with its bold black outlines, dense interlocking imagery, and dramatic coverage patterns, applied to the BAPE logo's Ape Head and wordmark in a graphic print that translates the visual density and the cultural weight of Japanese tattoo art into the tee format. The White colorway provides the most high-contrast and most visually striking base for the Japanese tattoo-style black graphic application on the back panel. Released July 27, 2024 at $65.
The BAPE Japanese Tattoo Logo Tee White is the SS24 USA cotton regular-fit tee for the BAPE collector who wants the Irezumi-style Japanese tattoo art treatment of the BAPE back logo with rubber-printed Ape Head sleeve detail in the most high-contrast and most graphic-forward white colorway from the multi-colorway SS24 Japanese Tattoo Logo Tee program.
The BAPE Japanese Tattoo Logo Tee White was released on July 27, 2024 with a retail price of $65.
