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Kanye West has done many things in his career and has been on the verge of being cancelled for well over a decade but that has as yet to occur. But that’s what genuine talent will get you. Well in his most recent instance of escaping cancellation, Kanye showed his staying power by having a pair of shoes of his sell for a whopping $1.8 million. That’s not an amount you can command if people don’t like you. And not only is that an insane amount, but he set the record for the highest amount a shoe has sold in history.
The Kanye West sneakers that sent athletic shoes strutting down fashion runways sold for $1.8 million, a new world record price for a pair of sneakers, Sotheby’s announced https://t.co/4UcDFAfM7X 1/5 pic.twitter.com/JhT24NXvwe
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The buyer for this pair of shoes is RARES, a sneaker investment marketplace. The shoes in questions are what he wore while performing ata the 2018 Grammys, a size 12 combination of Nike and Yeezy signature brandings. The fact an investment company purchased them hints at the fact they’ll likely be resold at an even higher value. And the previous record for the most expensive shoe to be sold was a pair of 1985 Air Jordans for a $615,000 that sold last year. Kanye’s shoe was designed by himself and Mark Smith. Now if this is a shoe that’s a little over a decade old selling for that, imagine what it could go for 3 decades from now like Jordan’s shoe that was just sold…
