Bongo Boy visited the Open House Gallery at 201 Mulberry Street in NYC for the release of the STPL x Airwalk Footwear Collection. He caught up with man-of-the-hour Jeff Staple to speak about the collection and working with Payless. The video also features words from several other personalities in attendance including DJ Neil Armstrong, Emeka Obi, Dave Ortiz, Hawaii Mike, and more.

jeffstaple1-2-1 with Yone from joshua on Vimeo.

Jeff Staple got together for URB with Yonehara Yasumasa, aka Yone, the Japanese photographer that we have featured already many times, mostly due because of a multitude of interesting projects that he has been involved in, in recent years.

The interview touches on how Yone got started with photography and what his involvement was mit Egg magazine and Smart Girls magazine in Japan. Enjoy!

Today Jeff Staple gives us a first look at Reed Pages, the new Staple Design in-house magazine, that evolves around their store and gallery space, The Reed Space.

“Reed Pages is at the forefront of contemporary culture, art and design. It is dedicated to delivering inspirational, informative and authentic content. It brings together the new and the reinvented, the homegrown and the foreign, and the independents and the conglomerates.

Whether it be visual, experiential, commercial or conceptual, the features are selected for their contributions and impact felt around the world. From cover to cover, Reed Pages influences its readers to learn, interact, create and be an active participant of the contemporary lifestyle.

There are no small stories in Reed Pages, thus the features are organized alphabetically. Every subject, every place and every single thing is given equal prominence. Everything we cover inspires us in some way, and we aim to share this inspiration with our readers.”

The Reed Pages magazine will be coming out four times a year. The website is already up and you can start subscribing to it today. You can even read the magazine online here.

Take a look inside Reed Pages Issue 1 after the jump.

John Mayer and Staple joined forces to collaborate on a t-shirt. Since both John Mayer and Jeff Staple are in their 30s, they incorporated that into the t-shirt graphic, as well as a re-interpretation of the infamous Aspirin logo by Bayer. The t-shirt comes in three colorways and will be available at The Reed Space as of tomorrow.

Another look at the John Mayer x Staple T-Shirt follows after the jump.

Bread & Butter Barcelona was a hectic week and we are finally getting into our rhythm again. A while back we showed you a preview of the Highsnobiety x Flake.tv video series and promised more to come. Today we start with our first interview from the show floor. Jeff Staple was nice enough to walk us through his upcoming collections.

We get an interesting first look at the upcoming Staple x Penfield jacket, as well as the upcoming Staple x Kangol hats that will be releasing later this year. Lots more to come from us and Flake.tv. Enjoy!

H(Y)R Collective has released their latest issue 5 and speaks with Jeff Staple, Sydney Lo, Jake Davis and also Brendan Babenzien of Aprix Footwear and Supreme. There are definitely some interesting articles in the issue that you should have a look at.
Check it out here.

Complex reveals a few more pieces from the soon-to-be-released Starter Black Label Collection. With Jeff Staple at the helm, the creative direction looks pretty solid. The classic satin jackets will take NFL team color schemes. And, as to be expected, hats and more will fit in and match up. 
We spoke to Jeff a few months back about the project. If you haven’t checked that feature out, click here.

Much talked about, much anticipated, much speculated – the Staple Design x New Balance 575 "Pigeon". For the longest time images had been circulating the Internet, but it was never clear whether or not it will actually come out. Sneaker Freaker breakes it down and finally gives us some good images of the soon to be released Staple Design x New Balance 575 "Pigeon".
It comes in the exact same color combination as the original infamous Nike "Pigeon" Dunk and also carries the Pigeon embroidery on the heel. It will come in an edition of 800 pieces.
Have a look at detailed images of the shoe after the jump.

In 2002, I bought an Eagles Starter Parka on eBay for 28$US shipped. I also cut some fancy parts in my hair. My childhood swagger was back. Unfortunately, the jacket was roughly the same size I would have worn when I was eleven, and the haircut was not greeted warmly by women. I’d made a slight mistake, failing to fuse my nostalgic yearning with my contemporary needs.  

Last holiday season, when images of Starter jackets started appearing and rumors of a revamp began to buzz, memories of my youth (and my misguided style choices in 2002) were ignited. Recently, we were greeted to official confirmation of the rumors. Starter is back… or more appropriately, the brands profile has been reinvigorated. Helmed by Jeff Staple, Starter Black Label is sporting heritage meets contemporary sportswear.

Over email, Jeff shared some of his thoughts about and inspirations for Black Label.
Read The Feature Here…

Not only can we confirm thanks to Jeff Staple that the Burton x Carhartt collaboration is happening, we can even give you a look at one of the jackets that is part of the collection.
Two great brands with a lot of heritage got together, the outcome are technical jackets in classic Carhartt colors, a meaningful mix of the strenghts of both brands. A while back when we interviewed Greg Dacyshyn, he provided a pic with him already wearing one of the jacket of the collaboration (by the way, the board you see in the pic is an upcoming Burton x Playboy collaboration). This will already give you an idea of what to expect!
Also Jeff Staple mentions that the 2009 iDiom collection, coming later this year, was designed by Staple Design and Fragment Design and has a Green Theme.