who started airwalk
That agreement effectively ended any credibility they had left in the skate and beach subculture of southern California that they started in. At around the same time that Airwalk began hitting the right side of the bell curve during the mid nineties, Jeff Staple was making inroads into the design world. When Staple, then known only as Jeff Ng, first started his clothing company, it wasn't a floodgate opening up like Airwalk. He was a communications and design major at Parsons who moonlighted as a data entry clerk. His first delivery was a run of 12 tees for the now famous Triple5soul's retail store.