Taboo wearing JUMP all over the world.

At Zootopia.  He’s wearing the Vanquish Reflex Patent in Green Purple.

In London.  He’s wearing the Vanquish in Ivis Patent Grey.

Boom Boom Pow at the American Idol Finale

Ever since JUMP started making cameos on the show, I had become an avid viewer of the show and, wow, what an amazing upset on the finale.  Congratulations to Kris!  It certainly was quite a season and I was so certain that Adam was going to take it but I guess it’s a testament to the preferences of America at large.  Nonetheless, the Peas were definitely rocking JUMP during their performance of Boom Boom Pow last night!

It’s such a strange coincidence.  They start wearing JUMP on Idol all the time.  Then the Peas start wearing the shoes everywhere.  Now Black Eyed Peas wear them on American Idol.  I guess it all makes sense – the #1 show on TV, the #1 band on the charts and the #1 shoe brand!  Hahahaha.

That is one hell of an outfit on Fergie.

The Vanquish in Black Silver Kid Crystal is available at eModa and Bloomingdale’s.

Ballers

I’ve recently been getting quite a few requests from Jay, my buyer at Kitson’s for some special orders.  As it turns out Amar’e Stoudemire really liked the Volume in Copper and Graphite and needed 14s but we only made up to size 13.  I got a hold of my team in China to see how quickly we could turn it around and within a matter of days I had it.  In fact, my homies in China are such big fans of his they made a pair of the Vanquish Green Purple Reflex customized just for him.  Check it out.

A few days later, Shawn Marion wanted a pair too and we decided we’ll start making sizes 14-18.  It is pretty dope to be getting all this love.

OK! Magazine American Idol Spread

Looks like they got their hands on the Vanquish!  This was taken on the set of one of the Ford commercials.

Matt’s got on the Grey Nappa and Anoop and Kris have both got the Grey Ivis Patent.  They’re the ones I wear!

Get these at Bloomingdale’s and the JUMP SoHo boutique at 89 Spring St.

Shinedown wearing JUMP on the CBS Morning News

Shinedown is an LA based band who’ve sold more than 6 million albums with many #1 hits including, this song, Second Chance.  Zach Myers, the guitarist on the right side of the stage has got on the Volume in White Patent.

Culture Catch X Henry Butler X The Sopranos

After having met Dusty Wright (the man behind Culture Catch) and Ed Bennett (founder of VH1) at my friend’s mom’s birthday party (random, but cool), they kindly invited me to their Culture Catch events.  Each of which have been very intimate invitation-only performances held at some amazing townhouse or some other crazy loft.  Last week’s was at the residence of Joe Scarpinito in Tribeca.  The event featured Henry Butler, a blind pianist from New Orleans.  I introduced him to the Monderer for Jump Gatsby in Black Dentelle and when he started feeling it, he was immediately impressed.  He could tell through his hands that it was a special shoe.

Also in attendance were a host of characters from The Sopranos, notably Michael Imperioli who made the introduction for Henry and who also flipped for the Vanquish Grey Nappa.

His performance was amazing.  The things he was doing with that piano without the ability to see was breathtaking.  Must’ve been the shoes.  Check out Complex’s writeup on him.

My hair’s shorter now.

My homies, Ed and Dusty.

That’s Norena, Henry’s manager, Michael, his wife Victoria and Dusty.

The caterer was wearing one of our shoes from last season, completely unsolicited.

Dope view from the roof.

Joe had quite a collection of artwork.  I recognized this piece from a Chinese artist, Yue Minjun.  As usual, it was quite a unique event.  I’m certainly looking forward to the next one!

Fast and Furious 2009

If you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely check out my homeboy Sung’s new movie, Fast and Furious.  I liked Tokyo Drift but this one was intense as hell.  The opening scene was completely sick.  The new release kind of takes the best from each of the other films and ties it all together.  I’ve also heard that with the DVD release will be a bonus DVD that’s a short film featuring Sung, Michelle and Vin, which should be cool.  Check out the trailer. Sung’s in the red truck.

American Idol

Two of the contestants in the final 8 wore JUMP SNEAKER DELUXE last night.

Anoop Desai wearing Vigor in Black Patent

Matt Giraud wearing the Volunteer in White Antiqued Patent

YRB How You Rock It

We participated in an event with YRB magazine where they had celebrities and tastemakers come to the Red Bull Studios and pick out clothes and shoes to wear and be photographed in.  Apparently they all wanted to rock Jump.

Also check out Footwear Plus’ feature of Monderer for Jump’s silver oxford in their latest issue.