The Real Story of the Best Selling Skate Shoe Ever: Osiris D3 | “Dave [Mayhew] has his side of the story + I have mine”
The 90’s are back. Gross. That means the most terrifying shoe from this era, the Osiris D3, is also back. Even more gross.
A$AP Rocky is making an under amour knock off. Louis Vuitton is making another crap knock-off. And none of them look any better than the original. It did make some homies rich though. There is still debate out there over if Dave Mayhew (the D3 was his pro model) or Stefan Janoski has been made more rich off a single model. Not everyone agrees on the history of the D3 however, read on…..
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“Dave [Mayhew] has his side of the story and I have mine,” Reid says. “I still get upset because I’ve been designing shoes for 23 years and all of a sudden he says he designed that shoe. We went shopping, found some shoes, chopped them up, and I put it together and that makes him a designer?”
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“Sales were up,” Reid says. “Tyrone [Olson] would get like 20 grand a month, while most guys were making one thousand or maybe five if you’re Eric Koston. That’s when some of the hate started to come in. The production numbers were so large that when I was on a solo trip to Korea tasked with moving production from one factory to the next, during a business dinner at a 5 star restaurant with the factory owner, I was told through a translator that, ‘The factory owner would like to inform you, that he can kill a man in this country and their body will never be found so you might want to change your decisions too.’ My phone was tapped, my stay at the hotel was monitored 24/7, I had two armed thugs seated in the lobby of the hotel, and they would follow me in around in a blacked out car, wherever I went. I had to shake them by jumping out a fire escape and checked into another hotel under an alias. Some James Bond shit.”
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