• Turn Back Thursday: Bape “Sta” Hoodie

For September’s edition of Turn Back Thursday, we bring it back to 2008 when Kanye didn’t have the Rosewood Movement and could be spotted wearing mostly high-end street wear on a day-to-day basis. The images below reveal Kanye wearing a Bape “Sta” hoody with the brand’s distinguished lightning bolt star, typically found on their footwear collection. At this point in ’08, the all-over print was essentially out of fashion and “played out,” but if there was any brand that could pull off an all-over print on their garments, leave it to the Japanese-based brand. Kanye is wearing an original release below, but since the first Bape “Sta” hoodies dropped, there have been several different versions that have come out, including one with gold-foil print and a city edition where each Bape flagship location sold the hoodie in a unique colorway.

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