NPD Says 50 Cent Was More Influential In Sneakers Than Kanye West, Adidas Marketshare Dropped

[Edub]

Kanye doesn't design anything. Out of his own mouth.

http://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-kanye-west-designer-20150308-story.html

and

http://www.thecoli.com/posts/13025101/

Kanye is not an actual designer, I think we all know that...but his efforts only stopped at the skill level where a formal education in design was required(tool use, blueprint diagraming etc.). But if your vision, words and direction, hands on, have the greatest impact on the shoes final product look...u would be seen as at least a co-designer, like he is with this shoe.

 

[Danie84]

You saw more heads rockin' GUnits, compared to the Yeezy's flub

 

[ignorethis]

fukk are you talking about? They were not in abundance like they are now clown.. and you didnt camp out a decade ago. Thats straight lies. The retro craze was not popping like that back then. Dont lie to kick it nygga.

lol you're flat out wrong, nikkas were lining up for Jays 10-15 years ago.

 

[ignorethis]

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Even on the topic of financial influence...it's such a difficult thing to fully gauge. Because 'Ye won't get credit for ZX Flux, Tubular or Pure Boost sales, though it's no coincidence that adidas has 3 of their hottest silhouettes in years after the Kanye co-sign. Or something like boutiques getting adidas accounts because they want to be able to stock Kanye product.

Also for Nike, who continues to drop Yeezy-inspired colorways of their shyt to make money. None of that directly credited to Ye.

We know Ye is a factor in sneakers. I hope adi moves forward with a wide release of something soon.

the tubulars came from their collaborations with Y-3, I bought both the Tubulars and ZX Flux before I even knew Kanye had signed with adidas because they're good designs.

You guys wanna give Kanye credit for everything.

 

[Monoblock]

Now you agreeing to what Ive basically said? After allll that?

Yall nyggas.. I swear to gawd

Dumb ass I responded and explained thoroughly where I stood but you said you didnt read it and decided to ignore it and not respond after I posted this

No one is refuting the resale aspect of the shoe game now and it being the driving force why kicks are so popular but you sitting up here denying that people were camping out makes you sound young and uninformed when we both telling you we witnessed the shyt with our own eyes. And your excuse is we must have been living in small hick towns...Houston and NY all my life so you can drop that lame excuse.
Hell I'll even agree to a point that it was much easier to grab shoes back in the day and most releases you could walk right in on the afternoon of release day and scoop them up no problem but there were releases where you had to camp to get them, but lets attribute the popularity that of today to technology and not one person.

Not even reading all that

again, nobody was camping out like that for the sneakers.. they werent. Now if y'all two nyggas wanna keep going back and forth, Im down. I will just cut and paste this statement every fukking time.. ya'll call

 

[Monoblock]

the tubulars came from their collaborations with Y-3, I bought both the Tubulars and ZX Flux before I even knew Kanye had signed with adidas because they're good designs.

You guys wanna give Kanye credit for everything.

No use talking to them man they gonna spin it and say some shyt like "he might not have created it but he made it trendy and popular and is a force behind people going back to adidas and wearing their shoes" when Matt shows raw data that says the exact opposite.

 

[JetLife]

Uh ... Adidas just beat on it's earnings due to the shift towards high-branding and metro cities ... "especially running shoes and more casual street-wear sneakers."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-estimates-as-turnaround-plan-gets-off-ground