As most of you know by now, Japanese magazine Eyescream is celebrating their 5th anniversary with their latest issue and features Hiroshi Fujiwara and Nigo on the cover. For the occasion they hooked up with some of Tokyo’s most prominent brands on special product. The line-up includes an Eyescream x Madsaki New Era Cap, Rocstar x Phenomenon T-Shirt, Eyescream x Sasquatchfabrix T-Shirt, Connecters x Towa Tei x Eyescream Jacket and an applebum x Eyescream Cushion. The product will be exclusively available through Zozotown.

Detailed images of the Eyescream 5th Anniversary Project products follow after the jump.

An interesting article was just published by WWD about the re-organization of A Bathing Ape. Nigo will actually stepping down as president and director of the brand and will be staying on as designer.

“Nigo said he will continue as the majority owner of Nowhere Co., Ltd., A Bathing Ape’s parent company. He will also continue as the designer of A Bathing Ape (also known as Bape) as well as his partnership with singer/producer Pharrell Williams in the Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream brands, where he is co-owner and head designer.”

It seems like a pretty standard move. As the brand grows and become too big, the founder stays on as the creative and business people take over the reigns. Let’s see if this will cause some changes at the brand.

UPDATE: We heard that next seasons Bape collection is actually designed entirely by Tet from WTAPS. Tet is taking over the Creative director position for next season. We are definitely looking forward to the new season and can only imagine the best to come out of it.

A while ago we reported about the NOWHERE pop-up store, the store that was originally opened by Nigo and Jun Takahashi in the early 90s, inside Dover Street Market. Tomorrow Dover Street Market will be releasing new colorways of the classic Last Orgy Two t-shirts.

Think Silly has come out with a new feature, entitled “2009 – Walking On The Boulevard Of Tomorrow”. They talked to Tet (WTAPS), Nigo (Bape), Jun Takashi (Undercover), Kitsune, WAD Magazine, Eric Elms, Hiroki Nakamura (Visvim) and others about their thoughts on the new year. Some interesting projects are mentioned in the interviews, such as a new Bape Store coming to Shanghai in 2009.

Check out the feature here.

More pictures from the feature follow after the jump.

We get a first look at the Nowhere shop-in-shop at Dover Street Market. The London store, operated by Comme des Garcons, recreated the original store front of the Nowhere store, that was opened in the beginning of the 90’s by Nigo (Bape) and Jun Takashi (Undercover) in Harajuku, Tokyo. Nigo was also in place to sign the copies of his A Bathing Ape 15th anniversary book. Images via BBC.

More images of the Nowhere space at Dover Street Market, Nigo and the product in place follow after the jump.

By now most of you should have heard that Nowhere, the infamous store once founded by Jun Takashi from Undercover and Nigo from Bape, will be setting up a temporary space at Dover Street Market London. For the occasion there will be some special product, which we can show you today. The line-up includes sweaters, hoodies, coach jackets and t-shirts. Let’s see if there is more to come. Via Jun Takashi.

Detailed images of the Nowhere product line-up follow after the jump.

Once again the honeyee blogs relaunched today and once again they brought some interesting new people on board. Tetsu Nishiyama from WTAPS is back from the dead, Nigo from Bape joined the blogs, as well as Neil Hartman, Terry Hall and others. As usual, definitely worth checking out!

Only a couple of weeks ago we showed you the image above, of a Last Orgy 2 t-shirt, the brand initially created by Nigo and Jun Takashi in the beginning of the 90’s, when they still used to run the NOWHERE store. It was their first project, before starting Bape and Undercover. Both of these brands were started out of NOWHERE. We were guessing that some of the product would be re-released soon. We were not completely wrong, but there is much more to it.

NOWHERE will open again for a limited period of time in the basement of Dover Street Market London from 17th January 2009 selling A Bathing Ape products and exclusive products made by Nigo and Jun together under the NOWHERE name.

We cannot wait to see some of the product. We will keep you posted!

Complex caught up with Nigo for their November 2008 issue and got the Japanese designer to talk about subjects that he had not talked about ever before in interviews. Turns out Nigo has a girlfriend since three years, never reads blogs and thinks that Bape gets knocked-off just as much as people talk about them knocking off Nike.

Well, just check it out for yourself here.

This coming Saturday, the new Bape Book will be released at Colette, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Japanese brand.

For the occasion NIGO will be at Colette in Paris to sign the book. Aside from several Bape camo versions of the book, there is also a limited Colette edition, coming with the Bape Camo in the Colette blue.