When is sneaker con 2017

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All Rights reserved. Erik Park. Newsletters Sign up for WWD news straight to your inbox every day. Powered by WordPress. My Account Welcome Name. According to research website Statista , "in , the total global sneakers market was valued at approximately Sneaker Cons were held in Florida, Washington D. The last show of the year will be in China.

Sneaker Con is also a vast online community. The brand has 61k followers on Twitter and a whopping 3. After spending about five hours at Sneaker Con, I got the sense that while an unconscionable amount of money was moving through the hands of these many privileged, white teenagers, a large number of transactions were initiated simply as a way to introduce oneself without looking like a dork.

When words failed, a lot of yearning stares were exchanged, as well as friendly daps, high-fives, and, of course, Instagram handles. For teenagers, buying and selling sneakers is a social sport and a way to triple their allowance.

For adults, it can be an act of redemption. I vowed that would never happen again. Here I am, 35 years later, with 3,plus pairs of sneakers. While owning a collection of 3, pairs of shoes certainly earns you clout points at Sneaker Con, the younger generation of fans seem to be more interested in spending all their money on the most-hyped items, taking pictures with them, and then flipping them for even more money.

What shoes do you want more than anything? How can you tell if a Yeezy is fake? The boost; the stuff on the bottom is harder. Also, if you get a blacklight and shine it on the threading, there should be little reflective dots. What do you like about Kith? Not only is there a culture around buying Yeezys, there are also now entire enterprises devoted to authenticating Yeezy fakes. The sneaker resale store Stadium Goods set up a booth within Sneaker Con where visitors could have their shoes inspected.

When I asked one Yeezy vendor how he could tell real from fake, he recited a litany of DIY steps including smelling the glue. At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle for Yeezy fans might actually be finding them in their size.

Adult male shoes often start at size seven. Young people will inevitably grow out of their sneakers, but will sneaker culture ever slow down? Yu-Ming Wu thinks the hype will only continue to expand, and he plans to bring his convention to China and Dubai — two already-huge markets — in the future.

The supply and demand formula is as simple as it gets. Below, meet the kids of Sneaker Con How hard was it to get those? It was hard to save up for them. Do you have a job? I re-sell. Are they comfortable? No, but a lot of people like them.

I want to be buried in them.