NIKE was founded in Oregon, United States, in 1964 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, initially as Blue Ribbon Sports, and began operating officially as NIKE in...
Sporty & sportswear
Streetwear
Trends & youth culture
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and streetwear influences.
Differences from adidas
Nike shows a stronger emphasis on Decoration & playfulness.
Nike shows a stronger emphasis on Outdoor & functional.
New Balance is a sports footwear and apparel brand founded by William J. Riley in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1906. It began operations by manufacturing corr...
Sporty & sportswear
Trends & youth culture
Streetwear
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and interest in archival pieces.
VANS is a footwear, apparel, and accessories brand under VF Corporation, founded as The Van Doren Rubber Company on March 16, 1966, in Anaheim, California, USA,...
Streetwear
Sporty & sportswear
Trends & youth culture
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and streetwear influences.
Differences from adidas
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Outdoor & functional.
Converse is a footwear brand founded in 1908 by Marquis Mills Converse in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Its offerings include lines such as the signatur...
Streetwear
Sporty & sportswear
Trends & youth culture
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and streetwear influences.
Differences from adidas
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Outdoor & functional.
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Sporty & sportswear.
Onitsuka Tiger is a Japanese sports-fashion brand whose roots lie in Onitsuka Co., Ltd., founded by Kihachiro Onitsuka in 1949. Centered on sneakers based on it...
Sporty & sportswear
Trends & youth culture
Streetwear
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and interest in archival pieces.
Reebok is a sports footwear and apparel brand founded in 1958 in Bolton, England, by brothers Jeff & Joe Foster. It offers shoes and apparel for running, traini...
Sporty & sportswear
Streetwear
Minimal & basics
Shared traits
The brands share interest in archival pieces and sports influences.
Differences from adidas
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Streetwear.
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Trends & youth culture.
Compass® is a footwear brand founded in 1998 in Bandung, Indonesia, by Kahar Gunawan. Building on the legacy of a shoe manufacturing business founded by his fat...
Trends & youth culture
Streetwear
Minimal & basics
Shared traits
The brands share streetwear influences and connections to youth culture.
Differences from adidas
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Sporty & sportswear.
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Outdoor & functional.
Dr. Martens is a footwear brand whose story began with the “1460” boot, created on April 1, 1960, in Wollaston, England, when R. Griggs Group licensed German-or...
Streetwear
Trends & youth culture
Outdoor & functional
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and streetwear influences.
Differences from adidas
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Sporty & sportswear.
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Polished & dressy.
Timberland is a U.S.-based outdoor and workwear brand. Its origins lie in founder Nathan Schwartz’s shoemaking, and in 1973 it launched the waterproof leather b...
Outdoor & functional
Streetwear
Trends & youth culture
Shared traits
The brands share distinctive designs and streetwear influences.
Differences from adidas
adidas shows a stronger emphasis on Sporty & sportswear.
Timberland shows a stronger emphasis on Outdoor & functional.
How to read the chart
Traits farther from the centre are more prominent within each brand. The chart uses the same relative display as the brand profile. Area does not indicate brand quality or degree of similarity.