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Kanye West

Kanye West

Sports & Memorabilia

The most valuable sneakers ever sold. The Nike Air Yeezy 1 “prototype” Kanye West wore on stage at the 2008 Grammy Awards changed hands through Sotheby’s in 2021 for $1.8m — a private sale of worn-by memorabilia rather than a collection dispersed at auction.

Realized at sale$1.8M
Estimated todayInsufficient comparable data
Modeled value over timemodeled

Not enough comparable high-value data to model a value history.

Documented sales

Nike Air Yeezy 1 prototype, worn by Kanye West at the 2008 Grammy Awards
Nike Air Yeezy 1 prototype, worn by Kanye West at the 2008 Grammy Awards Confirmed
Sotheby's·Sotheby's (private sale) · Apr 26, 2021
A Sotheby’s-brokered PRIVATE SALE (not a public auction) to the investment platform RARES, consigned by collector Ryan Chang. The first sneakers to break $1m — Kanye-worn memorabilia, not a Kanye-owned collection.
Highsnobiety Image: Sotheby's
Realized$1,800,000

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.

Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.
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