We are pleased to announce the official hijacking of DUMBO, Brooklyn by JUMBO. The pop up shop will be housing the full collection of Jump Deluxe as well as the limited edition TABOOXJUMPs until the end of July so make sure you hit it up while you can!! We will be having a grand opening party next Thursday so please come thru!!
The NY Times came to cover the popup and take some photos.
It’s located conveniently next to Pedro’s.
As a resident of Brooklyn, I know how desperately we need more mens stores so I’m quite proud to open this one! I have to give a huge shoutout to NOS Boutique for collaborating with us on this great project!!
I know I have yet to write a post on the Japan Event but honestly what happened was I wrote this big long thing with pictures and it got deleted. I’ll write it soon but in the meantime here’s some press.
This is Sense magazine. It’s a new magazine but really dope. They interviewed Taboo and basically asked him to pull out everything in his pockets. Haha.
This is Men’s Non No magazine. I’ve been a huge fan of this magazine for years and it’s been a fashion inspiration for me in many ways. So it’s a tremendous honor to be featured in it.
Every time I go to China, there’s not much to watch on TV while getting your feet massaged. There is, however, a channel called Fashion TV. It’s like a 24 hour blast of fashion shows, events, models, etc. It’s a good watch, especially Midnight Haute. Hahaha. So this last trip to China, it was pretty dope to see the event covered on the show. It was broadcast globally!! Check out the sexy time.
It’s always interesting to see what sort of celebrities wear your shoes and it looks like now we’ve got Jake Pavelka from ABC’s The Bachelor wearing JUMPs. Here he is with his fiancee, Vienna.
Peter Facinelli, Carlisle Cullen from Twilight seems to love his Volume 2s. He’s not the first Twilight celeb to wear JUMP as Kellan Lutz is also quite the fan. I remember him from the hit TV series, VIP. That’s right, I said it.
In my career in merchandising and product development, WGSN has been an invaluable resource for trend information, news and inspiration and I use to read it religiously. So it’s a great honor to be featured in their report! Here’s a look at some of what we have in store for Fall 2010.
I copped this pair of Travel Fox in Taiwan. This design hasn’t changed since the 80s but I think it’s still pretty dope. Should we remake them for JUMP DELUXE??
JUMP is excited to be part of the LABEL show (co-locating with Pure London) coming up from 14th to 16th Feb at Kensington Olympia. This is the first season we will be presenting our Jump Deluxe line in the UK as well as showcasing a collaborative line of sneakers with Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas labeled TABOOXJUMP.
I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to write about this portion of my trip but maybe it’s because there were some demons I had to overcome about Hong Kong. Namely the fact that we destroyed that city that night we were there and it in turn destroyed us back. Well I suppose I’ve also been rather busy stateside. As if China wasn’t already crazy enough, we now had Hong Kong at the toes of our TABOOXJUMPs. We arrived there in the afternoon and it wasn’t long after we checked into Hotel LKF that we were off to Roxie for the big event.
It was a sexy venue and May Wong had done quite a nice job getting things organized for us!
And then the interviews began. Before the actual event, we did about 2 hours of interviews with HK press, everyone from The South China Morning Post to ATV.
More autographs.
Here’s Larry and some local HK celebs that attended the party.
Tab and me with Rin Kurana and Adrienne Lau.
And the three amigos zapatos.
Here’s us with Keith, buyer for D-Mop and also frontman for the band Goodfellas.
It’s not all Chinese people in HK.
Randomly these two showed up. They went to high school with Larry and I. I hadn’t seen Brian nor Denise in a few years. The last time I woke up in a cab thinking my friend Hoan was her. It was weird.
More of the gang from D-Mop including Rocky Fuk. Very cool people and we’re really looking forward to shipping them very soon!!
Almost.
Here’s May, PR organizer of the event. She did a great job!
Tab and I with Eugene Kan, one of the founders of Hypebeast.
Bonnie and Samantha.
There were a lot of bottles. Johnnie Walker of course.
Time for some words.
My eyes get weird when I talk.
We did a drawing of business cards for a free pair of TABOOXJUMPs.
And wouldn’t you know it. The Hypebeast himself, Eugene Kan had dropped the lucky biz card.
People thought it was rigged, so we did another drawing.
And here’s the lucky gentleman.
And at the end of the night it always comes to this.
We would find ourselves at a famous Hong Kong restaurant at 5 am eating beef tendons. It was wonderful. The next day we had to bounce outta HK. It was time for the final and what would be the biggest leg of our trip. JAPAN. Fortunately, we cruised the airport in style.
When news that Johan Ku, a Taiwanese guy, had won GenArt’s Avant Garde grand prize, Taiwan erupted in celebration proclaiming him the honor of Taiwanese fashion. To congratulate him, Harry sent him a pair of our Zanatos (which I wear myself) as a gift. Here he wears the shoes in his United Daily News interview. It’s exciting to see Jump Deluxe gaining global acceptance. To think it all began with a couple samples of patent sneakers.
