Bearbrick x Bape x Mika Ninagawa Shark 1000%Green

Product Description

The Bearbrick x BAPE x Mika Ninagawa Shark 1000 in Green is a three-way 2019 collaboration between Medicom Toy's BE@RBRICK platform, A BATHING APE, and Japanese photographer and director Mika Ninagawa, applying a custom visual treatment to the 1000% scale BE@RBRICK at the 70cm display tier that combines BAPE's Shark face graphic concept — the brand's iconic toothy shark mouth and eye detailing associated with the Shark Full Zip Hoodie — with Ninagawa's signature oversaturated, jewel-toned floral and botanical photography aesthetic in a Green dominant palette that creates a particularly rich and visually complex surface treatment unique to this three-way collaboration. Mika Ninagawa is one of Japan's most commercially successful and most internationally recognized photographers, whose work is defined by extremely vivid, maximalist color saturation applied to flowers, goldfish, and other organic subjects in compositions that transform natural objects into intensely artificial-seeming jewel-like color fields, making her visual language a dramatic contrast and counterpoint to BAPE's urban streetwear aesthetics when combined on the same BE@RBRICK surface. The 1000% format ensures the Green Shark BE@RBRICK is positioned as a premium display collectible at the intersection of Japanese streetwear culture, fine art photography, and Medicom's collector toy tradition, with the three-way collaboration format making this one of the rarest and most culturally layered releases in the BE@RBRICK catalog of the period. At $1,120 retail the Bearbrick x BAPE x Mika Ninagawa Shark 1000 Green was released June 1, 2019 through Medicom Toy, BAPE, and authorized collectors globally.

The Bearbrick x BAPE x Mika Ninagawa Shark 1000 Green was released on June 1, 2019 with a retail price of $1,120.