In my opinion they need each other equally, nobody going to be buying Kobe’s like now if it doesn’t have his branding and Vanessa needs these silhouettes for people to want Kobe shoes. The only people I can see buying it without his branding are people who actually play in Kobe’s.
Hibbet was too good to be true for me, they sent me each shoe with a missing pair... I gotta return now and they won’t honor the price mistake. Lol worse than getting a cancel