Sep
18
Sneakerheads
Filed Under Uncategorized, shopping
Nowadays spending over $100 for a pair of sneakers is a pretty common occurrence. Stop into any shoe store in the mall and you can find plenty of examples of these shoes. I wanted to do a blog on something I could relate to because I’m in to shoes but I was curious to find the most expensive sneakers on the market. I thought over a hundred bucks was a lot but there is a pair of Nike shoes on the market for $5000! When I saw this article I could not believe someone would spend that kind of money. I also found shoes for $4000 and the cheapies of these uber-shoes for around $1000-$1500. Now if this isn’t a sign of the Apocalypse, I don’t know what is. Thousands of dollars for a pair of tennis shoes? It’s crazy. I know there are high profile designer shoes for women that probably cost around this much, but these are sneakers, basketball shoes, and skater shoes. I guess for these “sneakerheads” it’s worth the dough to have the rarest shoes on the planet. The $5000 pair of PS3 Nike shoes were put on a shoe only auction site, Blue Sole (I would hyperlink but the site is down right now), the PS3 shoes were created to celebrate the launch date of the game console. I found the $4000 of Nike Dunk Low Pro SP Unkles on another blog site the.[ED]ition and only FIVE pairs of them in the world. Now what makes these shoes better than the cheapo $100 pairs of shoes at the local mall? It’s the artist who is hired by Nike to design these special edition shoes. Artists like Mark Ong a.k.a SBTG or Sabotage, gained recognition by hand painting Nikes and auctioning them off. I hope that this new art form will someday be mass produced, not all by hand obviously but now it is exclusive to people with the means to spend a couple thousand dollars on shoes. Oh and those fanatic sneakerheads who wait in line for hours to get their hands on the freshest new kicks.