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Sneaker companies encourage this trend by producing rare sneakers in limited numbers, often at very high retail prices. Artistically-modified sneakers can sell for upwards of $1000 at exclusive establishments like Saks Fifth Avenue. [21] In 2005, a documentary, Just for Kicks, about the sneaker phenomenon and history was released.
Sneakers is a 1992 American caper thriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson from a screenplay co-written with Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It stars Robert Redford , Dan Aykroyd , Ben Kingsley , Mary McDonnell , River Phoenix , Sidney Poitier and David Strathairn .
Initially, the name "Peds" was chosen for the brand from the Latin word for feet, but it was already trademarked. [1] [2] Keds's original shoe design, the Champion, was the first mass-marketed canvas-top shoe. [3] They became known as "sneakers" as the soft rubber soles allowed "sneaking around silently". [4]
Russ Bengtson, author of A History of Basketball in Fifteen Sneakers, joins Vincent Goodwill to talk about some of the most famous basketball sneakers, why sneaker promotion has changed so ...
YouTube would give free access to its users, the more users, the more profit it can potentially make because it can in principle increase advertisement rates and will gain further interest of advertisers. [348] YouTube would sell its audience that it gains by free access to its advertising customers. [348]: 181
The set went on to sell for over $8 million at a Sotheby’s auction in early 2024, smashing records for the most expensive sneakers ever sold in history. 2. Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals ...
Consumers started to collect, trade and resell sneakers in the 1970s, and the sneakerhead subculture came to prominence in New York City during the 1980s. Sneakers such as the Adidas Superstar and Puma Suede were popularized by b-boys and hip-hop artists, [4] and Nike's Air Jordan line revolutionized the industry with its marketing linked to superstar basketball player Michael Jordan.
In Queens, teenage orphan El works in his late mother's shoe store "Laces", now run by his stepfather Trey, who overworks El instead of his stepbrothers Zelly and Stacy.. El closes the store early to join his best friend and fellow sneakerhead Sami at the release of a new sneaker, where they meet a girl named Kira, who is impressed by El's insight into people from looking at their sho