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The mythical custom shoes that the rapper Kanye West wore during the awards ceremony Grammy of the year 2008 -the first of the pairs in the line Air Yeezy that the musician designed in collaboration with the firm Nike – have broken all the records registered so far on the economic value that accessories of these characteristics can achieve in private auctions .
During an act held this week at the renowned house Sotheby’s , such striking footwear saw its price rise to $ 1.8 million thanks to the bids of an investment firm called RARES, which is precisely dedicated to the acquisition of these accessories -those that have historical importance, of course- in order to get poster Therefore all possible economic performance.
The almost two million dollars in which the value of these iconic Air Yeezy has been encrypted far exceed $ 560. 000 dollars that were paid, last year and in the same Sotheby’s , for the shoes of the already dethroned king of this particular market niche, the former basketball player Michael Jordan. Its mythical Nike Air Jordan 1 , which opened the ban on that revolution in sports footwear that occurred in the decade From the nineties and as a result of the planetary fame of the then player of the Chicago Bulls , they held this particular world record until now.
The already very expensive Nike of Kanye West were designed for such an important occasion by the rapper himself, Mark Smith and Tiffany Beers -the latter, designer of the multinational company- in the so-called “Kitchen of Innovation” in Oregon. Several years later, in 2015, the musician was finally encouraged to market his own brand Yeezy and, as a result of his remarkable success, Kanye can now boast of having become a “billionaire”.
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