Jeff Staple: Not Just Sneakers

Jeff Staple, a Streetwear Collaborator og Sneaker legend, is known worldwide for its work with the biggest brands including Nike og Hypebeast. This monography documents over the past twenty -five years of Staples most iconic work.

In 1997, Jeff Staple went into a New York City store wearing a shirt he printed in his silk printing class at Parsons School of Design. What started like a small, handmade t-shirt line grew organic og started getting a serious supporters in New York. In the process of building this budding brand, Staple was asked by Nike in 2005 to create a special memorial sneaker to represent New York. Staple Pigeon Dunk SB was devised og led to great fanfare at the time of release. The exposed staple - as well as sneaker culture - for a mass audience. With Staple's words is to understand to see, og To see is to have clarity in the mind. This clarity has helped develop his iconic Pigeon logo (og fire) to a global force that has adorned the heels of almost every major footwear brands imaginable.

This book offers readers a history lesson in his huge contribution to Streetwear og The sneaker industry, while also uncovering the design context of a number of Staples' most crucial projects. A beautiful visual reference, this book invites the reader to travel down into an intricate maze of streetwear history told through an insider point of view. Archive sketches, drawings, magazine covers og Contributions from Hiroshi Fujiwara og Futura makes this an indispensable binding of lovers of streetwear og design.