BAPE TEASES STRAY KIDS AGAIN A YEAR AFTER SKZOO

BAPE is teasing a new collection with Stray Kids, almost a year after the first project between the label and the group went on sale on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. No date and no product list has been announced, so the only confirmed fact is that BAPE and Stray Kids are working together again.

The timing makes this the third music name on BAPE's calendar in ten weeks, after aespa on August 1 and LNGSHOT's Ryul on August 22. The first Stray Kids round set a template those two followed: give every member something of their own.

October 29, 2025: Eight Members, Eight Camos

The first BAPE x Stray Kids collection was tied to the release of the group's fourth studio album, KARMA, and the encore of their world tour. It sold through Stray Kids' online fan shop and BAPE's global channels from October 29, 2025, with launch events in Seoul and Shanghai.

BAPE called it the label's first collaboration with the group. The Shark Hoodie was reinvented so that each of the eight members chose a favorite color camo and three embroidered letters, while SKZOO characters peeked out from the shark's teeth. BAPE's announcement listed the Shark Hoodie and the BAPE STA for December, after the initial October launch.

SKZOO Moved Into Baby Milo's Neighborhood

SKZOO are the member inspired animal mascots Stray Kids use, and the 2025 collection redrew them in the style of Baby Milo, BAPE's own ape mascot. The Baby Milo tee paired the mascot with each SKZOO character in different poses, and one design placed all eight characters around Baby Milo in the center.

The BAPE STA, the sneaker BAPE built in 2000 on the Air Force 1 and the Bapesta reworked the Air Force 1 in 2000, got bold color camo designs inspired by all eight members and was sold exclusively at BAPE. That is the product to watch: if the new release repeats the structure, eight camos on one shoe is the format BAPE has already proven with this group.

Seoul Was the Point, and BAPE Said So

The 2025 announcement quoted BAPE's chief executive tying the project to a market, not just a band: "This collection marks the beginning of BAPE®'s next chapter as we expand our footprint in the Republic of Korea." Two new Seoul stores were due to open that December.

Seoul has filled up since. Supreme opened its second South Korea store on September 12, 2026, in the Seongsu dong neighborhood, three years after its first Korean store opened on August 19, 2023. The 2025 launch events ran in Seoul and Shanghai, and a second Stray Kids round would land in a Seoul where streetwear retail has become more crowded.

aespa Got Four Figures, Ryul Got Donald Duck

BAPE has used the same member by member logic with other acts this summer. BAPE's collaboration with aespa recolored Baby Milo lemon yellow for the group's LEMONADE era and made four member specific figures for Karina, Giselle, Winter and Ningning, released August 1 at 9am PST through Complex.com and BAPE's own retail channels including US.BAPE.COM.

The Ryul release on August 22 fused Donald Duck graphics with ABC Camo and was BAPE's fourth major collaboration in three weeks, following aespa, Medicom Toy and mastermind JAPAN. Stray Kids, with eight members, is the largest cast BAPE has built a product line around in that stretch, and it already holds the template from 2025. Between aespa and Ryul came the Medicom Toy capsule on August 8, which revived the 2003 CAMO print for a 30th anniversary, and the mastermind JAPAN 19th collection on August 15 at BAPEXCLUSIVE Aoyama.

What BAPE Has Not Said

BAPE has not named a release date, a retail channel or a single piece. The last Stray Kids release launched on a Wednesday at BAPE stores and BAPE.COM.

Recent US schedules have run on two tracks. The BAPE and Crocs FW26 collection went to BAPE Store and US.BAPE.COM on October 3 and then to Crocs on October 8, with two Echo Clog 2 pairs in white and black covered in pastel ABC Camo.

The BAPE STA that carried the 2025 Stray Kids colors is also the sneaker BAPE spent early October celebrating. Its 25th anniversary collection was a ComplexCon LA exclusive on Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4, a week before this teaser.