
That’s the Japanese pronunciation of Black Eyed Peas. Chinese is Hei Yin Dou Dou. Anyway, check out this promo they did for MTV Japan. They are jumping in JUMPs!
The new Zeto makes an appearance at the Louis Vuitton show during Paris Fashion Week on the heels of Taboo and in the company of the Peas. I spoke to him yesterday and he assured me that fortunately, everything was cool regarding the debacle with Perez Hilton in Toronto. These guys and gal, always look so damn fresh!


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Again, ubiquitously omnipresent.

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Love the shoutout to JUMP JUMP! Listen for it at 2:19.
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Tab’s wearing the Vanquish in Grey Ivis Patent performing their new song, “I Gotta Feeling”, on The David Letterman Show.
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FFANY stands for Fashion Footwear Association of New York. It’s like the mini fashion week for shoes. Honestly, it’s not usually very exciting though I hear in the old days it was something else. However, this season’s has been something special. It started when I received some shoes I’d been waiting for night and day for weeks. We’ve had and continue to have amazing success with the Vanquish in all the beautiful materials. A while back when I’d met Taboo and The Black Eyed Peas, he mentioned we should do a collabo. Light bulbs flickering and Boom Boom Pow, I kindly asked Larry to put some of our best materials on our newest and soon to be hottest style, the Zeto for Tab. And boy did he deliver. Here are the results.


And Captain Lawrence outdoes himself again. So after what turned out to be a really productive afternoon (read wine and cheese consumption) at the showroom with Zappos, I had to meet Taboo at the store to present him with these shoes for our project and on the way I saw Shawn Pean, my buyer from Saks waiting for a cab with two of his colleagues so Marco, Chris and I scooped him and his crew up in the Jumpmobile (an old school Benz ML). Mind you, I had only seen these the day before and so they were truly making their debut but of course I had to show Shawn and of course, he loved them! More light bulbs and we we decided we’d have to do an event with BEP at Saks and introduce these looks there. Brilliance.
When we got the store, Taboo showed up and we showed him the new illness. He literally said, “OH FUHSCHNIZZLES.” Just kidding. He said something else and was totally floored. I told him about introducing our collab at Saks and he was all over it.

There he is in the throne wearing the Zeto in Grey Ivis Patent and Nappa.

Here he is with the Green Purple Reflex Patent and something dope combo I don’t even know what to call yet.

And of course, here’s the whole team.

This is going to be a long post. Afterwards we had our company dinner at Antique Garage down the road and as you can see here, had a great time as usual.
Harry, our CEO is crazy. Gotta love him.








After that we hit up Richie Rich’s party for Chris Coffee at Garden in the Sky at the Cooper Square Hotel. Great party, open bar and the weather was perfect for it. I’d been wondering what the building was. It’s got a really interesting design.
So last night we hit up the Black Eyed Peas album release party at Griffin (old PM) in Meatpacking which was another dope party. Taboo was kind of enough to put me on the list to an otherwise completely exclusive event. Top shelf open bar and we saw just about every celebrity in the world there and I got to introduce Shawn and the Saks crew to the Peas. Great karma.

Kanye rolled thru.

Rihanna came too and later performed with them onstage.

Tab introduced me to Fergie who was a sweetheart.

Wilmer Valderrama had come to the store earlier that day and wore our boots!


It was an interesting couple of days. Now I need some rest!
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Taboo, Fergie, Apl and Will on the red carpet in Saitama, Japan for the MTV Video Music Awards. Taboo’s got on the Vanquish once again! Check out their new video for “I Gotta Feeling”.
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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.
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