A Bathing Ape to Reopen Store in Los Angeles

A source tells Complex that the Bathing Ape L.A. store will “hopefully be open by end of the year."

On Saturday, a photo circulating online revealed news that A Bathing Ape is re-opening a Los Angeles location in the near future.

How soon? Well, a source from the company tells Complex that the store will open on Melrose Avenue, across the street from Maxfield. According to the source from Bape, the store will hopefully be open by end of the year. 

Twitter was excited to hear Bape L.A. was returning.

Hell yeah Bape store opening back up in LA!! #BapeLA
#BAPELA gonna be nuts
A BATHING APE LOS ANGELES STORE COMING SOON #BAPELA

What's more, Aape By A Bathing Ape is also opening a store on Fairfax, a Bape source confirmed to Complex.

This is a photo of Aape.

In 2008, Bape Los Angeles opened in April at 8001 Melrose Avenue, making it America’s second official retailer of the streetwear brand. On opening day, founder Tomoaki "Nigo" Nagao, director Joel Silver, Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, and artist Takashi Murakami visited the store. Other celebrity sightings included actor Jonah Hill, Jermaine Dupri, Rick Ross, Mike Tyson, and Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden.

In the summer of 2010, the Bape store in L.A. closed. After more than a decade in the game, Bape's London location also shuttered its doors in 2014.

But Californians will have a chance to go Ape again. Typically, when a new location opens, Bape will release special edition t-shirts to commemorate the occasion. For the original L.A. location, they released t-shirts featuring a sunglass-wearing ape near palm trees. That design is below.

LA Ape Tee

 

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