They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but LeBron James would beg to differ. The L.A. Lakers star called out fashion house Alexander McQueen for jacking Nike’s iconic Air Max 1s (pictured top).
LeBron retweeted MoreSneaker.com’s post featuring images of Alexander McQueen’s new line of sneakers.
“So Are you saying That’s not @Nike Air Max 1??… Well alrighty then,” LeBron tweeted.
His post was retweeted thousands of times, with many of LeBron’s followers agreeing that the designer sneakers do look vaguely familiar.
Alexander McQueen sneakers on HBX
White/Blue:https://t.co/0cjnKv1HAb
White/Red:https://t.co/qnGEwPQVqS
Black/Grey:https://t.co/iJlsa8J9LJ pic.twitter.com/qiwD8N6rVm— MoreSneakers.com (@more_sneakers) November 5, 2018
So Are you saying That’s not @Nike Air Max 1?? ??? Well alrighty then https://t.co/nx27CAWeEa
— LeBron James (@KingJames) November 5, 2018
Umm . Looks a lot like another sneaker that Nike makes …
— sean sims (@seansims01) November 5, 2018
Air Max 1 with a OVERSIZED sole!. These joints are WEAK AF!!.
— R.H (@R_216oh10) November 5, 2018
Rip offs.
— Jacob Merritt (@jacobamerritt) November 5, 2018
Pretty sure Nike's lawyers will have a message for A McQueen in the morning.
— SkeeVote (@pinkAKArose) November 6, 2018
Well the AM version looks like orthopedic shoes… They’re targeting a different audience…the old and elderly
They look like the irregular ones where the check is upside down and the NIke is missing a “e”
I was just about to write that…??
LOL…my thoughts exactly!
i bet they cost 5 times as much also.
oh! let me go byke and look at it then…. ROFL! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4978edc0044ffab937e6eec9100df838a8617ec8dace60eaf3bd0b8a80f3865a.gif
that’s that new Kramer ‘special’ shoe… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/79d46454122101e4cafe53decf644cf233673d949036e8558ffc789154cd3734.jpg
I hatechuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
awww my damn!!!!!! lmabo!!!!
LeBron wants his Nike stock.
fugly at best….moving on–>
Or the Nike prototypes. The mold.
Y’all like these tennis shoes looking like Styrofoam moonwalkers. WHY? they’re ugly AF! All of them. Whatver, go waste your money on those crunchers. Look like nursing clogs.
I’m in tears!
Clock out sis
Can he call out ALDO for those fake Nike/Pastry mix shoes they peddlin’ as well?
Fail.
Lebron doesn’t need to say anything. Nike has a team for this their called IP, Patent and Trademark.
omg ??? got the bang bang Max’s
THEY ARE UGLAAAAYYY AS HEYELL TOO! EWW
OH NAW! GIMME my NIKE AIR MAX!!! OG 1986 FAN!
These sneakers do not look VAGUELY similar they are similar. Too damn similar.
I’ll stick with the NIKE…When I need those orthopedics I’ll hit up McQueen…
I will always love 95 Air Max…
I see a little bit of Reebok in that shoe aswell.
That’s ashame my only takeaway was that people still say, “joints.” ?
oh…. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a16feb7886870b58e876a7ffc6b264e7419e743bb55ec579123b82d4a427799.gif
*sad face*
LOL!
Tell em bae ??
Take the L
Bald headed Air Max.
All those sneakers look alike. You go to the shoe store and you can’t tell them apart. So I don’t know what he’s upset about.
The AM ones do look more expensive. The style is narrower and simpler.
Please beleive they’ll find some untalented gay male rapper to sport these things and the hoodrats will be flockin the store to pay and bragg that they paid $400 for:em and they feeling Gucci ..
OOOMMGG..CDFUUU
I Hate White Shoes….Period
Lmaooo…
DEAD
Ok!
Those Alexander shoes are wack and plastic looking. No good. And if I was Nike, I’d be sending them a cease & desist letter.
LOL…
Damn, that was a GOOD one!
Like those dammmn Balenciaga shoes
Fools don’t realize the designers made the shoes ugly so that blk folks wouldn’t want to wear them…. A little tidbit I learned from a lady who designs shoes for a high end brand. She said they choose particular styles and colors that wouldn’t normally appeal to their demographic
First of all ??? Alexander McQueen is rolling in his grave over a sneaker ? period, bearing his famed name anyways. ?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/276beb9984df134739ac99cdd665e8dffd171e0eaae9b6912c911c5a19493ea6.gif
I smell a lawsuit
Ha!
In the northeast yep we do!
Lol
SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing is original anymore smh
All these designers take ine another’s designs and alter them. Those sneakers are ugly and costly for no reason.
Which Balenciagas, they’re all ugly to me. Whatvyou said stings, but we keep putiing money in their pockets but won’t buy our own designers clothing and shoes.
They’re all ugly to me too but the rappers are loving those hideous things and bringing more free advertising to the fashion companies that dislike our people.
the ones that look like socks just google them lol