
Many of you have left me numerous emails or left comments wanting to know more about the Kanye West Nike Blazers i posted up last year. For awhile i kept coming up short, until the other day. I managed to find out who the designer is of the custom Kanye inspried Blazers. Atleast i think they are the original designer. I say this cause as i was browsing the site i came across something i wasnt really to happy about. SBTG who is known by many people in the sneaker industry has had his custom sneakers duplicated in the past a few times. It seems that i have come across yet another customizer who has copied the work of SBTG, with the signature and everything included. They go by the name of Raul from Iraul.com and it seems they have a pair of duplicated customs on there. At this time i am unsure if they are actually the original designer or the Kanye kicks, i would like to think so but i dont know.. On their site there are a lot of cool customs, even some which are made to resemble official limited edition Dunks and AF1s (no problem with that, i can respect that) but at the same time you have work that is a copy of another customizer so i cant really make a call to if the work is original or not. I respect all customizers for the hard they put into these sneakers and i always hate to see one of them go and betray their own kind by copying a design. Either way this person is the (said) original designer of the Kanye West Nike Blazers, theres even a pair of Air Force Ones for those who are interested. You can check out the site here. And Raul, if your reading this, which im sure you are since you left comments on this site before, its not cool to see copies like that. I respect SBTG and his work, which has been posted here on the site numerous times, so im gonna have to go and send the Royalefam a lil message about this. Keep doing your thing, not somebody elses and hopefully we can get some more of your work featured here on the site. The fakes are pictured after the jump.
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