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Inside the booming collectible market for sneakers

Dec 15, 2016
It's a red hot market, with investors and collectors alike.




Limited edition sneakers are popular but they also have a troubled past. A close up of artist Gary Simmons's 1193 piece Lineup at the Whitney Museum of art where sneakers, dazzlingly presented in metallic gold, are placed against a police line up chart. 






 
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