About 10 days ago - @rotooki sent me a screenshot of fake TS x PS Dunks - the same photo that made it to all of the blogs. I quickly posted on my story as I wasn’t totally sure what to make of it (yet

About 10 days ago - @rotooki sent me a screenshot of fake TS x PS Dunks - the same photo that made it to all of the blogs. I quickly posted on my story as I wasn’t totally sure what to make of it (yet). I know I’m like 6 hours outside the window of effectively talking about TS x PS Dunks and now that the cherry has popped it’s already out of everyones mind cuz the latest drop on #snkrs has taken over my feed...but I received the same question in my DMs over and over and thought it was worth talking about…everyone was asking the same thing - how? As in, how did fake manufacturers produce batches of these shoes within 3 weeks of a vague screenshot shown in a black and white commercial?  
  
I’m assuming 1 of 2 things are going on here…  
➊Maybe the factory that was contracted to make the sample from Nike already leaked the specs or is already pushing product out the backdoor…one thing to notice - the materials are QUITE a bit different from the pair in the commercial (and the pair that is up for Giveaway on Travis’ site) to the pair shown in the fake pics (possibly modified in the commercial). To me that means this option is less likely, but still could answer how this happens with nearly every *other* release...  
➋Fake manufacturers seem to be quite a bit more nimble than a behemoth like Nike. Where it takes Nike 6-18 months to get a pair of shoes into production...contracts, materials, quantities, pre-payments, etc. - it appears that an experienced fake manufacturer can probably get something rolling as soon as they see it. I’m assuming at least SOME of these fake manufacturers have history building real ‘authorized’ shoes, so when it comes down to it - a real cobbler can probably put together a shoe within a few hours/days. This, to me, seems like the more likely option.  
  
And I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a real cobbler at work, but it’s pretty fascinating (@doctorfunksgallery sometimes does videos on his stories about shoes that he thinks up and just creates out of the blue)  
  
Anyway, that’s my two cents. Anyone have another take on it?