Complex Blog » ripoffs http://www.complex.com/blogs Buy. Collect. Obsess. The original buyer's guide for men. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Worst Sneaker Ripoffs Seen At MAGIC http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/09/02/the-worst-sneaker-ripoffs-seen-at-magic/ http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/09/02/the-worst-sneaker-ripoffs-seen-at-magic/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:35:03 +0000 Joe http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/09/02/the-worst-sneaker-ripoffs-seen-at-magic/ air-force-1.jpg
Nas said it best: “No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun.” But when we hit the upstairs portion of MAGIC in Vegas last week to browse sneaker brands on the come-up and potentially find a diamond in the rough (didn't happen), we saw an obnoxious amount of biting going on.

All the majors'Nike, adidas, Creative Recreation and the newly-popular Supra'fell victim to indie brands jockin' their fresh. To show what goes on in the underworld of sneaker culture, we compiled the silhouettes that were most flagrantly bitten. Shit's despicable.

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