Naked Ape, Not Just ‘Stuff’
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Not a fan of bright color combos and crazy patterns, avert your eyes and make sure you never fall for the nu rave trend. I for one am oddly attracted to bright colors and things that are so wrong, they’re right. That is the basis of clothing brand Naked Ape. According to them, they are just a bunch of people who come together “for the love of making stuff and having fun together”, but just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I find their “stuff” to be so much more.
Very rarely do you feel a bond with a garment unless you had something to do with its creation, and even then its questionable. However, the shear wrongness (is that a word?) of the eclectic patterns on the clothing made me swoon in a way I hadn’t in quite a while. Their pieces are urban yet nu rave, comfortable yet chic.
My favorite pieces include:
- The ‘Forynja Dress’,
265.0 €SOLDOUT- I rarely like dresses with hoods, but the loose fit of the dress works well with the drappy hood. - The ‘Ponies Hoodie’, 110.0 € - Its My Little Pony gone nu rave, what more is there to say?
- The ‘Heartbreaker’ t-shirt, 40.0 € - Who can resist half-naked rockers in leopard pants? I know I can’t!
- The ‘Ponies & Yetis Snood’, 55.0 € - It’s winter and we all need a good hood-scarf. Except my idea of a snood is something like a hair-net, who knew! Oh, and its MLP meets the ever illusive yeti, come on…
The only thing to bring me down from this fashion high was finding out Naked Ape is based in Iceland, and realizing the USD/EUR exchange rate is crazy (1€ is about $1.50 USD).
For more information on Naked Ape visit their website: http://dontbenaked.com/.


















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