Jerry Lorenzo accused of ripping off Rick Owens

Everything started when Jerry Lorenzo showed up at Vetements show rocking his brand new Fear of God sneakers. The new "Basketball sneakers" are a variation of his classic Military Sneakers design. The new model presents a white leather curved stripe on the side of the all black upper, white laces and rubber sole and a new padded tongue. When the designer posted one fit pic (shot by Bluemode) during the show and some close ups on the sneakers the shitsorm sterted. A lot of people started accusing Jerry Lorenzo for having ripped off the super-famous Geobasket sneakers by Rick Owens.

Also the Fear of God designer infamous accuses to other brands of copying him make the whole situation a delicate matter. Not long time ago Jerry himself made an appearance on Nid De Guepes Instagram profile, a few days after they released their combat boots with sneaker sole, accusing the brand for having copied his Military Sneakers. Yet Rick Owens have a large crowd of acolytes that literally invaded Fear of God instagram account and Jerry Lorenzo personal account with the usual internet anger and wicked humor. Also a lot of opinion threads have been opened in the last days about this topic on the most crowded forums like Reddit and Styleforum featuring a huge amount of hilarious “fashion memes”. Until now Jerry Lorenzo hasn’t given any official response to the accuses. Maybe to avoid fueling the argument.


Obviously even Jerry can count on a large group of fans that made their best in order to defend their favorite designer. Many of them assert that the reseblance between the two shoes it’s all about the colorway and that if Jerry would have released the sneaker in another color actually no one would “be bitching” about that.

Many other mention that the first version of the Geobasket, the Rick Owens Dunk snekers, were a clear homage to the Nike AF1 and that was the reason why they had been retired after few season. That means Jerry intention was not to rip-off Rick Owens but to make his Basketball sneaker a tributo of one of the most famous Basket sneakers of all time. This is everything for now. If there will be future important developements, we will get back on this case.