Mr Dob (B) Toy

BAIT is a premium brick and click concept retailer in footwear, apparel, and high end collectibles with chapter stores in all major cities on the West Coast with expansion plans to the Midwest. BAIT is a multi-cultural and multi-category retailer that carries pinnacle and highest tiered products from the best footwear, apparel, and high end toys/collectible brands. BAIT aims to get away from traditional single category specialty retail model by curating multi category assortments that are unexpected to bring the surprise back to brick and mortar shopping. BAIT was founded on 2011/11/11 with a simple goal to create a premium retail + activation friendly environment for the elite consumers from different product categories and bring them under one roof and cross sell the limited edition products from footwear / sneakers, apparel brands, and collectibles. BAIT has evolved quickly from a retailer to partnering with the best brands in the industry to work on countless collaborations and exclusive special makeups for its consumers. BAIT is also the USA halo activation and licensing partners for global giants such as Microsoft, Sony, Universal Pictures and Dreamworks.Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1963 and received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He has had recent solo shows at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2003); Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001); and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (2001). In addition to his work as an artist, Takashi Murakami is a curator, entrepreneur, and a student of contemporary Japanese society. In 2000, Murakami curated an exhibition of Japanese art titled Superflat, which acknowledged a movement toward mass-produced entertainment and its effects on contemporary aesthetics. Murakami is also internationally recognized for his collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs to create handbags and other products for the Louis Vuitton fashion house. Takashi Murakami's work has been exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and a recent solo retrospective exhibition at the Bard College Museum of Art. Through his work, Murakami has played with these oppositions in East and West, past and present, high art and low culture while remaining consistently amusing and accessible. His work morphs the