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NY artist KAWS took to Facebook to personally announce the ill fate of his successful toy & clothing branch of the KAWS brand OriginalFake. The line saw many successful cross brands that included a t-shirt collaboration with Medicom Toy, sunglass manufacturer Oakley, Charles Shultz’ Peanuts comic strip, Fragment, Kaneko, and Porter, just to name a few, over the past seven years. The brand plans on closing their doors this coming May and below is the official release statement written by KAWS himself:
May 2013 marks the seventh year anniversary of OriginalFake, and it is at this time that Medicom Toy and I have chosen to close the shop and company. It’s been an amazing opportunity to work with Medicom Toy on this project as well as working with Masamichi Katayama of Wonder Wall to create the interior of the shop and Konno of Nexus7 who’s incredible talent really added sophistication to the clothing that we produced. I really want to thank the staff in production as well as in our shop. If you ever entered our shop you already know how awesome they are! I would also like to thank all the companies that collaborated with us, your friendship and support has always really meant a lot, and to everyone who has supported OriginalFake,THANK YOU! and I hope to see you all in the next chapter!
-KAWS
