Sole-d to the Highest Bidder: A Canadian Businessman Buys 99 of World’s Rarest Sneakers at Sotheby’s for $850,000

If you were hoping to get a hold of one of the 100 rarest pairs of sneakers ever created during Sotheby’s auction collab with Stadium Goods… well you’re officially out of luck.

The online auction was supposed to go through July 23, and all of the shoes were on display in mirrored vitrines at the auction houses’s Upper East Side headquarters. But on Wednesday morning, news came in that Canadian entrepreneur Miles S. Nadal had snagged 99 of the coveted kicks in one fell swoop for a staggering $850,000.

Source: Artnet.com

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