{"id":4610,"date":"2026-05-18T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rareinventory.com\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:31:55","slug":"kaws-x-bape-dissected-milo-2011-vinyl-figur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rareinventory.com\/de\/kaws-x-bape-dissected-milo-2011-the-vinyl-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"KAWS x BAPE Dissected Milo 2011: die Vinylfigur, die ernsthaftes Sammeln definiert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you follow the KAWS vinyl figure<\/strong> market, you already know what the Dissected Milo<\/strong> is. If you’re just getting started, this is the piece that experienced collectors point to when they want to explain why KA<\/a>W<\/a>S<\/a> matters beyond hype. The KAWS x BAPE Dissected Milo 2011<\/strong> brings together two of the most significant names in streetwear and contemporary art, KAWS and A Bathing Ape, in a vinyl sculpture limited to 500 units per colorway. At Rare Inventory<\/a><\/strong>, we carry both the Brown and the White versions, each original, with box and hologram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is KAWS and why does it matter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the beginning, Brian Donnelly was just a kid from Jersey City, New Jersey, who got into graffiti. KAWS<\/a> was his tag, chosen simply because he liked the way it looked. What followed was one of the most significant careers in contemporary art and collectible culture of the last three decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999, he partnered with Bounty Hunter, a Japanese toy and streetwear brand, to release his first toy. Companion, an eight-inch-tall vinyl figure, debuted with a limited run of 500 and sold out quickly. It was the first of more than 130 toy designs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furthermore, KAWS’ r\u00e9sum\u00e9 reads like a record of major 21st-century pop-culture moments, his work with streetwear brands like A Bathing Ape and Supreme, his design for the cover of Kanye West’s 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak, and his collaboration with Kim Jones on the Dior Homme Spring\/Summer 2019 collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, when KAWS and BAPE collaborated in 2011 to produce the Dissected Milo, they brought two of the most documented creative histories in contemporary culture together in a single object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collaboration: KAWS meets Baby Milo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Dissected Milo is a collaboration between A Bathing Ape (BAPE)<\/a> and KAWS that combines both enterprises’ signature figures into one: Baby Milo and the Dissected Companion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baby Milo is BAPE’s iconic character, a cartoon monkey that became one of the most recognized symbols in Japanese streetwear. The Dissected Companion is one of KAWS’ most conceptually charged figures: a character split open to reveal its interior anatomy. Together, they produce something neither could have created alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The work depicts BAPE’s Baby Milo divided into two halves, each side expressive of KAWS’ notable anatomy aesthetic. The figure combines several ideas in a relatively simple form: the temporality of life, the relationship between a brand and its creator, and an inner divide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the collaboration carries a specific historical weight. The Dissected Milo came from a scarce 2011 collaboration between KAWS and Nigo, the early and influential KAWS collector who founded A Bathing Ape. In other words, this piece connects two people who had a personal creative relationship long before this figure existed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two colorways at Rare Inventory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

KAWS x BAPE Dissected Milo 2011 \u2013 Brown | Limited Edition 500<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Brown colorway uses a complementary color scheme where exterior and interior exist concurrently in a way that plays with the figure’s dissected composition. The warm tones of the Brown version give Dissected Milo a more organic presence on a shelf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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