STORY: Adidas has found itself in a cultural appropriation controversy in Mexico after it launched a new line of sandals.Mexican-American designer Willy Chavarria collaborated with Adidas on the "Oaxaca Slip On,

He has apologised over the Oaxaca Slip-on, inspired by sandals made by Indigenous artisans, after criticism from Mexico.

Fashion designer Chavarria apologized after his collaboration with Adidas Original was charged by authorities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the largest producer of Huaraches, with appropriating the traditional design of the region’s huarache sandals, although there are many “original designs.”