billionaire boys club type private industry textiles founded 2005 headquarters tokyo new york city key people pharrell nigo robert walker products apparel accessories and footwear website http www.bbcicecream.com billionaire boys club and ice cream is an american and japanese clothing retailer featuring two lines of clothing established by pharrell williams and nigo founder of clothing label bape . the lines consist of t shirts polos sweatshirts knits denim suits and shirts ; outerwear in leather down cotton and technical fabrics ; hats sneakers underwear socks and accessories . the items are produced in very limited quantities and are usually sold for high prices . 1 contents 1 history 2 new ventures 3 locations 4 references 5 external links history edit in 2005 pharrell williams one half of the neptunes partnered with japan s fashion icon nigo the founder of a bathing ape bape . the two collaborated to create and launch two new premium streetwear brands billionaire boys club and ice cream . the brand suffered many setbacks after its original conception due to disputes between williams and reebok . reebok was originally set to release the clothing line alongside the ice cream sneaker line . although the sneakers made it the clothing line was postponed and all projects came to an end in late 2004 early 2005 . it was at the very end of 2005 when the brand was finally launched as a partner company to a bathing ape . 2 in august 2011 news surfaced that rapper jay z a frequent collaborator of pharrell and known to wear bbc himself would be partnering with the billionaire boys club line . 3 later it was revealed that the rapper through a joint venture with iconix had invested in the brand . the following year bbc did record high 25 million to 30 million in volume up from 12 million . 4 billionaire boys club originally was exclusively manufactured in brooklyn however in recent seasons the clothing has been made in canada mexico korea china and turkey . new ventures edit bbc has launched a brand called billionaire girls club or bgc . 5 pharrell and nigo did a special tribute to tokyo with a tokyo capsule line . the letters bbc were replaced by tyo and a special astronaut image . 6 locations edit billionaire boys club has us flagship store in soho new york city a european flagship store in soho london and a store in tokyo japan . several stores that retail billionaire boys club and ice cream clothing exist across north america the united kingdom and europe as well as asia and the middle east . references edit dressed in the dark super producer pharrell williams can t get enough of his dire gaddafi style hat . http www.joe.ie . retrieved december 5 2011 . external link in publisher help history http bbcicecream.com 2007 . retrieved january 2 2008 exclusive jay z buys billionaire boys club . gq . retrieved december 25 2011 . billionaire boys club might make billions of more dollars after expansion . complex . retrieved march 17 2015 . http www.bbcicecream.com shop bgc http www.xxlmag.com lifestyle 2012 05 pharrell releases billionaire boys club tokyo capsule collection external links edit billionaire boys club ice cream official site nigoldeneye a bathing ape and billionaire boys club on nigo s bape tv show nigoldeneye mtv japan v t e pharrell williams awards discography production discography studio albums in my mind girl extended plays the call remix pink slime mixtapes in my mind the prequel the neptunes clones discography concert tours dear girl tour related articles n.e.r.d billionaire boys club child rebel soldier all city chess club retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title billionaire boys club clothing retailer & oldid 737374741 categories 2000s fashion2005 establishments in new york2005 establishments in japancompanies based in new york citycompanies based in tokyoclothing brands of japanclothing brands of the united statesclothing retailers of japanclothing retailers of the united statescompanies established in 2005hip hop fashionjay zhidden categories cs1 errors external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskfran aissvenska edit links this page was last modified on 2 september 2016 at 10 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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