I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really shouldn't be here.

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• James Jebbia:

  I'd always loved what went on in skateboarding. I'd never skated myself, but I loved the graphics -

• James Jebbia:

  A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, 'Well, it's skate, so it's got to be, like, big bag

• James Jebbia:

  I'm not a DJ, I'm not a scenester.

• James Jebbia:

  I came over here with $100; it was 1983 and I just ended up staying. New York at that time was very

• James Jebbia:

  We were one of the first to say, 'Let's make a really nice shirt for skaters and let's make it real

• James Jebbia:

  We just want to make really great-looking clothes that are well-made, fit well... that you can skat

• James Jebbia:

  When we opened in Paris, we opened in the Marais. And when we opened in London, it was in Soho. The

• James Jebbia:

  A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to op

• James Jebbia:

  My thing has always been that the clothing we make is kind of like music. There are always critics

• James Jebbia:

  Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.