HS: You've got a hand in a ton of collaborative product, how does that help expansion/growth?

Jun: Well with the collaborations, it again comes naturally. Every project has been with a friend of ours that works for these brands. For us it has been great as these are things we all love to wear and dreamed of doing when we first started. Everyday we feel like we’re living a dream.

HS: For sure. we know the Vans collaborations, and of course the G-shock’s, well. What are you working on, or dreaming of working on for the future?

Jun: I think we have established great relationships with the brands we have done projects with and will continue on with all of them some yearly and some twice a year. There have been talks of doing some other things, bigger that what we have done previously, but you know how that goes. Don’t want to blow it by saying what it is, as were just in the initial stages

HS: Gotcha, like collaborating with the Pacific on the perfect wave?

Jun: Hopefully that wave can go around the world.

HS: I want to shift gears just a bit and talk about how skate and surf styles converge in Hawaii. We sometimes see them as very different on the mainland, and I wonder how it plays out for you?

Jun: Well as history goes , Hawaii does and did play a huge part in both skate and surf. From the early days of surfers wanting to surf when it was flat, they invented skateboarding, which happened actually in California, but that’s where Hawaii came into play. There was a movement where the Hawaiian’s would emulate the moves in the water to the sidewalks. Look up Buttons K, who was one of the worlds most famous surf skaters in the 70s. Then the 80s came along with the movie Search for Animal Chin- skating a world famous spot called wallows that actually banked like a wave. Then the 90s, where a lot of guys from Hawaii skateboarding made their mark as integral parts of the skate industry.

HS: And, guys that have moved to Hawaii as well, right?

Jun: We have a lot of transplants that want to enjoy the surf skate lifestyle

HS: Jules Gayton is a name that comes to mind

Jun: Yeah his story is funny, how he moved after 9/11.

HS: Ah, that is news to me.

Jun: Just over it in NYC, and wanted a change in life.

HS: Not a bad place for that.

Jun: It’s really cool to see people like him to move to Hawaii and embrace our islands.

HS: I last was there in 1982.

Jun: Whoa. Lots of things have changed. It’s becoming such an incredible mix of a city and paradise. Best of both worlds, and shopping has been a big part of it as well.