Ever had to worry about if you're shoes were counterfeited? Or have you ever just wondered how it was manufactured? Counterfeiting is making more money than most of the industries that they copy. One of the biggest culprits of this is sneakers, as more and more sneakers are duplicated and sold for a fraction of the retail price. The New York Times goes in depth with the new article “Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe-Factory” profiling an Italian shopkeeper who placed a Nike Tempo shoe order with a Chinese factory that took the shoes blueprint and created over 3,000 copies of the original sneaker. Just think: For every original, at LEAST two fakes are created.
Read the whole article here.
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