bootleg brands

While most will find the name of these shoes amusing, I must point out my favorite part of this shoe label… the original “All Stars” were made as an athlete model for the basketball player Chuck Taylor, and in turn had his name commemorated in “handwriting” on the label. Now… correct me if I’m wrong, but these knockoffs are now commemorating Monica and Ian. Are they good at sports too? Oh yeah and Ballstar sounds like a porn from the 80’s.

Calvin Klein’s bastard son-glasses company, or just some small overseas company that just coincidentally happened to have the same logo and last name? Oh and most likely identical shaped sunglasses… but no doubt, much higher quality than its competing doppelganger.

Shout out to Nadya Joensen for the photo of these glasses found in Turkey.

Thanks to Josh Berer for sending in this great pic of Stars and Bucks Cafe taken in Ramallah, Palestine. Definately no lack of Starbucks ripoffs around the world, and this is a prime example that these impostors have no intent on disguising their blatant theivery.

and… the results are in…. people love NCKIA! With battery life far superior to their corresponding Nokia bastard siblings and no doubt with a price tag less than half of its predecessor, people seem pleasantly satisfied with this knockoff. And with a welcome screen like this one… you know you’re in good hands…

Guaranteed to make you run 2.3x faster 50% of the time, these Farrori kicks deserve front row seats in your shoe collection. Does Ferrari even make shoes? I need some confirmation on this… and if so, where do I get a pair.

This branding campaign is primarily focused on dislexics, or some variant of that. But come on guys, Daiads just doesn’t have the same ring to it when you say it aloud… and purely based on that reason, I’m not buying a pair.

Possibly my favorite of the “brands” I have posted. Subtle yet genius. No need to re-invent the logo, just separate the elements, and it slips by the common viewer seamlessly. Especially on these socks when they bunch up around the ankle they are virtually indistinguishable from the Nike’s you would have spent 3x the amount on.

The transition from candy to tobacco should be fairly smooth for most children. They pretty much nailed the logo on this one except for the strange sans-serif “Z” they had to improvise. If you look close enough in the image, you will be pleasantly surprised to see that Zalbollae now comes in menthol!

You gotta at least give them credit for matching some of the letters of Prada, although the R looks pretty bad. Like so many of the brands on this blog, this one is from China… I guess they have this whole ripoff culture down to a science… not to mention the lack of regulations in the country.

Wtih a price tag like that ($17.99), how can you go wrong?! Unless of course the screen is just a gradient sticker and all the button only emit crappy sound effects when pressed…

What I like about this speciman, is the subtle changes to the PSP logo, that makes it almost look legit. POP may just be the future of handheld gaming. Who knows…