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The BAKAGI mark: a scribbled zigzag crossed by one vertical stroke

GG 001 · Clothing

Welcome to the world of BAKAGI

Fashion that defies convention.

As Benjamin Grimm flipped through his old high-school notebooks, he uncovered a treasure trove of doodles from the past. What began as scribbles of a bored teenager has now become BAKAGI: everything a teacher wasn’t supposed to see, printed where everyone can.

From the notebooks

A lined notebook page, crowded with handwritten notes and small drawn faces
A page of notes, and what grew around them.
A pen drawing on lined paper: a round-headed figure on stick legs, under the words Mommy, where are my taxes?
“Mommy, where are my taxes?”
A face with hollow eyes drawn in pen over the printed text of a paperback
Drawn over the page of a paperback.

The works

  1. A white bucket hat covered in pen drawings: stick figures, a staring face and the words Learn, learn, learn

    No. 01

    OG

    Bucket hat, reversible · polyester

    The first collage: notebook pages wrapped round a brim. Whoever stands next to you gets a look at what goes on inside your head.

  2. A white windbreaker drawn over from collar to hem: swirls, faces and the words Brudda, Slingshot and What am I

    No. 02

    Infinity

    Windbreaker · water-resistant polyester

    Messages from beyond, edge to edge. Zip it up: it is your sign to prepare for departure.

  3. A white short-sleeved button shirt with a column of drawn faces, potatoes and the word Grow down one side

    No. 03

    Doodled

    Button shirt, short sleeves · recycled polyester

    Drawn at a school desk, worn on the Mediterranean.

  4. A white oversized T-shirt: a wild-haired figure with an arrow straight through it, above the word Lovestruck

    No. 04

    Lovestruck

    T-shirt, oversized · heavyweight cotton

    This is what falling for someone actually feels like.

  5. A white T-shirt printed with Happiness doesn’t come easy above a small figure lying flat on its face

    No. 05

    Happiness Doesn’t Come Easy

    T-shirt, fitted · ring-spun cotton

    Life is a struggle.

  6. A black hoodie with a huge drawn grin in white: slanted eyes and two rows of sharp teeth, and the word Smile

    No. 06

    Smile

    Hoodie · cotton and polyester

    Put on a happy face. Nobody needs to know what’s underneath.

  7. A white hoodie with a pen drawing of a figure standing in a doorway, shapes crowding the dark behind it

    No. 07

    Changed

    Hoodie · cotton and polyester

    You can try to run all you want, but the demons will catch up.

  8. A black knitted beanie with a pom-pom and the word Mommy? embroidered in white on the cuff

    No. 08

    Mommy?

    Pom-pom beanie · knitted acrylic, embroidered

    Every grown-up is a lost kid in a bigger coat. This one says it out loud.

  9. A white neck gaiter printed with a thought bubble full of small faces and the words Thinking about you, rising from a stick figure

    No. 09

    Thinking About You

    Neck gaiter · polyester and elastane

    It’s hard to find the right words when a special someone has infested your mind.

  10. A white fanny pack printed with the words Escape reality and a drawn doorway

    No. 10

    Escape Reality

    Fanny pack · spun polyester, lined

    Ditch Louis Vuitton and Gucci. This one holds everything you need to escape reality.

  11. White sweatpants: one leg reads It’s too late buddy beside a fork-headed figure, the other Hang on above a hanging stick figure

    No. 11

    Hang On

    Sweatpants · recycled polyester, fleece inside

    One leg says hang on. The other says it’s too late. You’re stuck somewhere in the middle.

  12. A black tank top with a pen drawing in white: a tall figure reaching down to a small one, and the words Abort me

    No. 12

    Abort Me

    Tank top · combed cotton

    Made for the gym, and guaranteed to get you noticed there.

Worn

Two shoots: a sunlit ruin, and a forest where old cars go to rust. Photographs by Allan Grimm.

Close up: a grinning young man in the black Mommy? beanie A man in a white BAKAGI hoodie sitting against a wall of graffiti A young man in the Infinity windbreaker over the Abort Me tank top, leaning on a rusted car in the forest A figure in a white hoodie at the end of a dark, crumbling corridor A young man in the Abort Me tank top and Hang On sweatpants in the doorway of a wooden shed From behind: a man in a white T-shirt climbing through a ruined window, the word Jump painted beside it A young man in the Mommy? beanie and a doodled jacket under yellow autumn leaves A man in a white hoodie reaching towards the camera, a ruined building behind him
From behind: the OG bucket hat and the Infinity windbreaker among the trees A man in a white hoodie standing among stone bollards under a concrete roof A young man in the Mommy? beanie and a doodled jacket stepping out of a wooden shed A man in a white T-shirt under a broken roof, in deep shade A young man in the OG bucket hat and the Doodled shirt in the forest A small figure in a white T-shirt in an overgrown yard A young man in the Doodled shirt beside a moss-covered car A young man in a doodled jacket leaning on a graffiti-covered bus in the forest