{"id":186851,"date":"2021-04-27T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=186851"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:29:12","slug":"these-are-the-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/these-are-the-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the most expensive sneakers in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earlier this month, the historic auction house Sotheby&#8217;s announced the sale of a new contemporary object of desire. It was Kanye West&#8217;s Nike Air Yeezy 1, which sold yesterday for no less than $1.8 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-186797 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kanye's Nike Air Yeezy 1\" width=\"1279\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/highxtar-yeezy-most-expensive-sneakers-in-the-world-1-508x339.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The iconic trainers that Ye wore during his <strong>50th Grammy performance<\/strong>, which subsequently became one of the industry&#8217;s most coveted collaborations, now have a new owner: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rares.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RARES<\/strong><\/a> marketplace. The sale marks a milestone for a publicly recorded sneaker sale, surpassing the likes of <strong>Nike&#8217;s &#8220;Moon Sneaker&#8221;<\/strong>, which sold for<strong> $437,500<\/strong> at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerome Sapp<\/strong>, CEO and co-founder of RARES, said of the significant purchase: &#8220;We are delighted to be working with <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/sothebys-sells-nike-hyperdunk-designed-for-barack-obama\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sotheby&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> on this acquisition. Our goal in purchasing such an iconic trainer -and piece of history- is to increase accessibility and equip the communities that gave birth to trainer culture with the tools necessary to achieve financial freedom through RARES. We look forward to working with Sotheby&#8217;s to <strong>continue to identify rare finds that will help elevate, preserve and maintain trainer culture<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby&#8217;s yesterday sold Kanye West&#8217;s Nike Air Yeezy 1 for $1.8 million, the world&#8217;s most expensive trainers to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[788,616,703,906,785],"class_list":["post-186851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-en","tag-kanye-west-en","tag-laura-perez-en","tag-nike-en","tag-sneakers-en","tag-yeezy-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>These are the most expensive sneakers in the world - 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