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so?
this is soooo oldschool but still nice somehow:) back to the eighties!!!
WTF?
hmmm, brave! and brave because Adidas is a far better brand!!
however i kind of like it.... i think?
Adidas is known for having 3 stripes on their shoes. K-Swiss has alot of the same style sportswear, but they have 5 stripes. sooooo they show someone remaking an adidas to look like a K-Swiss shoe.
I think its cute.
And why do you explain like no one understand it?
FER.
Adidas won't like this. Their lawyers won't like this. K-Swiss' lawyers won't like this either. But I like this.
Ahah !! Moi aussi i like this !! :)
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Jumo,
Art Director FP7 Morocco
This looks to me like KSwiss are saying, 'we take wwhat adidas do, then we copy it and change it just enough to get away with it'
Doesn't work for me, and is infact slightly damaging to K-Swiss in my opinion.
Baloony
We're going to need more lube.
First I understood it like that too. But finaly, I took the other dimensioned and that made me smile !!
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Jumo,
Art Director FP7 Morocco
ha?
http://jazarah.net/blog/
Take it on the other side: Our product is just as good as Adidas, but we have 2 stripes more.
I think it looks like "gee, I wish my Adidas were K-Swiss" I like it, I thisk its brave. Although when it comes to trainers I'm an old school Adidas man. Always was, always will be!
when your adidas is f****d up it turns into kswis.
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I would never promote Coca Cola.
http://www.watgame.com
i guess they trying to say that kswizz shoes r long lasting :-S
http://www.WATGame.com
i think they are trying to say its not the label that matters but the quality,durability and ........ of the shoe.
However, in some way they seem to indirectly confront addidas, buy saying kswiss is far much better,that someone can buy an addidas shoe and brand it kswiss.
i blv the concept is brilliant
http://www.01designs.co.uk/
http://luwagagyaviira.blogspot.com/
yes...but it's an old shoe...so why brand it k-swiss when it's dirty? Cos Kswiss is as good as an old addidas shoe? I kind of like it anyway but the message is too blurry.
All negative comments by sour pus, anus-ugly sour grapes here. Yawn.
Children of miserable parenthood.
I like this ad, but ADIDAS RULE!!
I sorry guys... but the strategy itself is wrong!
Why Addidas should be pissed off... infact they should be happy...
As this advt. says that K-Swiss sports don't manufacture their own shoes!!!
or
The customers of K-Swiss brand are seriously @#$%.. that they do something like this!!!
The whole things is bavg... the strategy... as well as the execution
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a2obspl
www.alpha2omega.in
No. i think they are trying to say those which have adidas would like even more to have K-Swiww !!
And it isn't disrespectful for adidas, on the contrary: adidas is THE reference.
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Jumo,
Art Director FP7 Morocco
That's kind of like buying a BMW and then replacing the logo badges with Hyundai.
Aweful.
What a2o said makes sense, It should be an ad for adidas, and could run with a line that says 'other brands can only dream' or 'often copied, never bettered' or something better along that sentiment.
We're going to need more lube.
yeah this blows. the 5 K-Swiss stripes are not iconic at all. and i know whenever i see shoes with more than three stripes i automatically think knock-offs.
Think Botswana, please !!
Certainly a country where everyone cannot offer adidas !!
definitively courageous.
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Jumo,
Art Director FP7 Morocco
All Day I Dream About Swiss
They completely missed on this one. It is visually communicating that K-Swiss is just copying Adidas.
What they need to express is the other way around.
Showing an Adidas shoe with the stitch marks and maybe a faded spot where Adidas removed the K-Swiss's other 2 strips. This puts K-Swiss on top!
stupid.
they put the K-swiss as a fake Adidas...
k-swiss is just like a pirate product in this ad.
worst ad for shoes lately
We give you the same stuff as Adidas!
with 2 EXTRA STRIPES!
HURRY!
ugh
Devil is in the details,
Lets keep it simple!
http://www.simplycircular.wordpress.com
two points for me
kswiss copies adidas or...
addidas wants to be kswiss
but the first one seems more convincing,
considering kswiss' status vs. addidas
Krijn! Botswana....daht legt toght alle de tijd in het Zuidwijk. Niks mis met je Ad. Alhoewel. Niks extra ook, moet ik ook zeggen. Eerlijk dan.
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/viagra_freud
Groet!
Martin Mol
Martin
kSwiss white-out - thats a new one.
Hey Kreihn... hit lehk erop dattsje wel wat Sljofeense sjhoenen kehunt gebruihke...
Jehouw team vhan Kanye West is van hagteh aanbevehleh bei deheze ahls ikh eghte Behotswaanse Viagra Pouwfwerr need!
Hagteleihke groehd tehurugh,
Mahrtin.
Martin
Not a bad ad if only there had been a line to explain what the brand/'agency' wanted to say.
For example 'the real K-Swiss, not as expensive as you might think', 'every shoe wants to be a K-Swiss' (or better lines of course... ;-))
(PS, haha, Krijn van Noordwijk, Botswana...)
either kswiss copies adidas
kswiss is just as good as adidas
adidas wants to be kswiss
or adidas has evolved by adding 2 new stripes to become kswiss
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