Not Just Sneakers (feat. Jeff Staple, Creative Director)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
From sneaking into Parsons’ silk screen lab to making sneaker history: we have hometown legend Jeff Staple in the house today! You may know this creative visionary for his DIY roots and shaking up streetwear with his Nike Dunk Low SB collab “NYC Pigeon.” We talk to Jeff about his come up in streetwear, what draws people to the scene, the current state of sneaker culture, and reimagining work-life balance now that he’s decades into his business. Follow @jeffstaple on Instagram and catch us on Patreon for bonus content from this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asian. Welcome to Feeling Asia and a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:21.2 | And I'm Brian Park and you're recording from NYC young me. I'm in New York City still |
| 0:29.6 | I'll talk about that we'll get into that yeah but yeah before I get into that. Yeah, but yeah before I get into that I think we should introduce our wonderful |
| 0:37.0 | guests because I'm this is very exciting because this is something somebody that we've wanted on the podcast for a long time and we wanted to have |
| 0:45.2 | this discussion for a long time. Oh absolutely well our guests I asked our |
| 0:49.9 | guests how would you like to be introduced on the podcast and he threw it back at us and said why |
| 0:54.5 | don't you give it a shot and he'll correct us if needed so listeners our guest is a |
| 1:01.6 | creative director and I guess just overall street wear icon entrepreneur |
| 1:09.3 | have you have you heard of the Nike pigeon dunks? That's yeah brainchild on this |
| 1:16.8 | podcast so listeners give you ears to Jeff Staple. What's up everyone? |
| 1:21.8 | How you doing that was good? That was good. That was great. Yeah excellent elevator pitch |
| 1:27.3 | Wow Wow, wow, look at us young me. We're a real operation doing our due diligence here. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm always really interested to see how like other people because I know you guys are not |
| 1:39.7 | like in like you're not like in hype beast world like you know you're not like waiting in line outside of supreme |
| 1:45.9 | but it's always interesting is so bad Brian's like I am I thought I was |
| 1:51.8 | Well, no, no, no, I am quietly in it like I don't I lurk but back in the day I would go on |
| 1:57.2 | hype East and like super future and I would like I would observe from the outside but yeah I definitely know you as a figure within the streetware scene for sure |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah, so it's always interesting to hear the introductions you know from from various outside industries but you did a good job thanks. |
| 2:15.0 | Oh wow wow wow would you say that your involvement in streetwear is I understand |
| 2:20.8 | it might be the most public facing but are you is that just like is it like an iceberg like are there a lot of things under the surface that people just aren't privy to but yeah just doing creative direction for all sorts of projects there are a lot of things of things, but I don't mind that people don't know them all, |
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