cut it out. he has some decent designs but those fake jordans ain't it.
Yall mess with the black owned sneaker company Sia collective?
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HTXBreh
Superstar
Those are my least favorite shoe I dont even like the lows he recently designed.He misses on some of his shyt.Also green glow in the dark is getting old.
What are you doing?
Grizzly
Home Run Hitter
Yup. Dev (who owns Sia Collective) and Omi been clowning that nikka for the past 2-3 weeks now. Dev has basically been giving Kiy game from the jump on how to improve his shoe, hooked him up with his accountant, and a whole bunch of real nikka shyt. Dude even let him know that Nike was gonna start sending out cease and desists way before it happened (which actually came to fruition). Kiy is a dikkhead so he started throwing subs saying that dude was hating and "disguising it as OG talk", which Dev ignored at first, but he just had enough and went scorched earth on that nikka. He released text messages between him and Kiy and if you read them you could see that he was nothing but supportive of dude from the beginning. Basically like a big brother.
In the midst of all that, Omi In A Hellcat (youtuber) found out who manufactures Kiy's sneakers. Talked shyt to Kiy letting him know that they got the same manufacturer on some "friendly competition" shyt. Kiy laughed it off but behind the scenes made the manufacturer choose sides and put a stop to the production of Omi's "slides," not even sneakers at that point. He lost money behind that though. Omi, being petty, stole Kiy's whole sneaker design and pays the manufacturer even more money to put it into production. From this situation, everybody finds out that Kiy stole the bolt design from another black owned company in Oakland who had it trademark called "Superb." So he's basically been selling this shoe without owning the trademark. To top all this bullshyt off, Nike's application to federally trademark the Air Jordan 1 High gets approved. Everybody is shook now. Some companies got cease and desists and refunded their customers, others are keeping it on the low.
Omi does the smart thing and makes a new trade dress that doesn't infringe on Nike's and is also giving Superb a cut of his profits since they own the bolt trademark. Superb initially didn't want to sue Kiy because he's another black designer but a lot is being revealed about how Kiy is a piece of shyt to the people around him and his customers so Superb is pursuing legal action now. Dev and Omi are still clowning, and Kiy and David Weeks are still selling sneakers on some "catch me if you can" shyt.
There's really so much more I'm leaving out but you could do a whole business class on this situation. I learned a lot about the sneaker game from this. shyt, just yesterday I found out that you could make a sneaker design, sell it directly to a factory, and get a check off that. nikkas are so busy arguing with trolls in these comment sections over who's right and who's wrong that they don't realize that they're giving up a whole lot of game in the process. People should be soaking this shyt up.
Damn you broke this down succinctly. And yeah I got hip to all this a few weeks ago watching Sia's IG live. Lowkey I've been trying to find Kiy's manufacturer my damn self so I can get a hold of some pairs
. And you're absolutely right this whole situation is wild but opened my eyes to a lot of shyt. There's a lot of money that can be made it this shyt.For anyone else reading here's Sia Collective's IG live breaking all this down:
NYSTATEOFMIND
Superstar
looked on their site- they look like knock off nikes with crazy colors
if they had some new and fresh designs...I would 100% give them my bread
HTXBreh
Superstar
SIA Retro ,Inverno,VV1,and VV2 you just talking out your ass.
NYSTATEOFMIND
Superstar
there is nothing new about those designs either fukk outta here
HTXBreh
Superstar
I see alot if dudes coming for a black designer and defending massa Nike.nikkaz been telling you for yrs Nike steals from black customizers and could give 2 shyts bout our community.I dont get clowned wearing his shoes or clothes ,but on the coli.His cheapest shoe 200 and they sellout in 30seconds he made a million dollars in 1 day.He got a signature dropping with M.Harell .Why is this supposed black board hating.
ABlackMan
Superstar
Y’all know he the guy that had the group of kids design Steph Curry sneakers for the finals one year or something along them lines
ABlackMan
Superstar
Some folks in here don’t know the difference between colorways and designs. Lol
Yeah him and Steph are real close. One of his designers designed a Golden State hat and he had Steph sign it for him.
I seen him on the breakfast club a few years ago and been fukking with him since. Never bought a pair but I fukk with what he's doing. I don't care if his designs are slightly close or even knockoffs fukk it. Nike going be fine.
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He state you can order these by Midnight but when I go to the store as a member I don’t see shyt.