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Kanye West’s original Yeezys set auction record
The results are in for the sneaker auction by Sotheby’s that we previewed earlier in April. The pair of Nike Air Yeezy 1s fetched a record price of $1.8 million. This is about triple the record price of $615,000 previously offered for a pair of Nike Air Jordan 1s that ...
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Sotheby’s to sell a pair of the original Nike Yeezy sneakers
A forthcoming sale by Sotheby’s will include a pair of Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy 1 sneakers. The model was unveiled publicly during West’s performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards and was released in a limited series the next year. The Air Yeezy 2 followed in 2012. Nike had never ...
