You won’t have to wait long to get your hands on the KidSuper x Bape collection. After making its debut on the runway in Paris today, the line will be available for purchase in Spring 2025.
The extensive capsule is a full-circle moment for KidSuper’s Colm Dillane. The founder and designer used to sell his earliest T-shirt designs to people lining up at the Bape store in New York City when he was a teenager. One of his KidSuper’s signature patterns, the Face Camo, is a clear homage to Bape’s ABC Camo. Dillane used to make bootleg Bape tees. Now, he’s made it official.
The collaboration is a perfect dose of nostalgia. It channels that golden era of Bape in the 2000s with rainbow camo Shark hoodies, Bape Stas in blister packaging, trucker caps, and even a purple leather jacket a la Lil Wayne. But this isn’t just a reissue of items from the past. Everything is given its own KidSuper twist. Shark hoodies traditionally have a frowning set of chompers on the hood. Now, they’ve been flipped around into a smile. Bape Stas replace their signature cotton candy patent leather uppers with Japanese Boro fabric. Some of them have been chopped into mules. The most obvious bit of newness is the camo pattern used throughout, a fusion of each brand’s print into one.
The most fun items are the graphic T-shirts. One sports a Baby Milo version of Dillane, while the other honors the famed egg salad sandos served up by the 7-elevens in Bape’s home country of Japan. There’s also a rainbow camo travel kit complete with an eye mask, earplugs, toothbrush, socks, comb, notepad, and colored pencils for whipping up some art on those extra long flights from New York to Tokyo.
Take a closer look at everything from the extensive KidSuper x Bape lineup below. Prices range from $150 to $600.
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