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GANGSTERVILLE

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Country: Japan
Founded: 2010 2010s
Category: Clothing Bags Accessories
Related brands: Clothing brands founded in the 2010s Clothing brands from Japan

Overview

GANGSTERVILLE is a Japanese menswear brand that began operations in 2010. A spin-off brand of GLAD HAND, it is developed from GLAD HAND CORE in Harajuku, Tokyo. Based on vintage clothing, it offers apparel and accessories incorporating American counterculture themes such as gambling, tattoos, alcohol, and pin-ups into its designs. Drawing on early American vintage workwear and motor culture, it presents rugged American casualwear and continues to sell products through its official online store.

Concept

A brand based on vintage clothing that incorporates symbols of American counterculture—gambling, tattoos, alcohol, and pin-ups—into its designs, evoking a masculine, rugged, rebellious sensibility.

Related brands

Parent brands and sub-brands, ordered by founding year.

Related brands: 1 brands
Founded: 2009

Year Brand Category Description

2009

GLAD HAND

Parent brand

Clothing

A men’s offshoot line that foregrounds delinquent culture

GANGSTERVILLE is an independent brand developed by GLAD HAND & Co. alongside GLADHAND. Bas

GANGSTERVILLE is an independent brand developed by GLAD HAND & Co. alongside GLADHAND. Based on vintage clothing, it treats American counterculture—including 1920s gangsters, gambling, tattoos, liquor, and pin-ups—as a distinct design theme. It is an offshoot line that narrows the parent brand’s broad expression of American culture to the rougher, more masculine realm of delinquent culture, taking on a role distinct from the refined classicism of BY GLADHAND and the humor of WEIRDO.

2009 Parent brand

GLAD HAND

Clothing

A men’s offshoot line that foregrounds delinquent culture

GANGSTERVILLE is an independent brand developed by GLAD HAND & Co. alongside GLADHAND. Bas