A few months after the death of the famous fashion designer Virgil Ablohit was announced that the sneakers Louis Vuitton-Nike, which were the last ones that the dressmaker designed, would be put up for auction. It was contemplated that the auction will start with a base of of the thousand dollarsby auction house Sotheby’s.
The pair of tennis reached the enormous number of 353 thousand dollarssomething like seven million 201 thousand pesos Mexicans. The pair of sneakers has the famous Louis Vuitton motifs and the signature Nike stripe.
The design of the collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Nike was unveiled at the men’s show of the collection spring-summer 2022and from the moment of their presentation they caused a furor among people who like to buy luxury items and collectors.
The collection is comprised of 200 pairs and with its sale they have collected $25.3 millionof which 20 million will go to a charitable purpose to which Virgil Abloh was very committed.
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The auction house disclosed that 75% of auction participants were new buyers and two-thirds of them have less than 40 years old.
Originally published in The Sun of Zacatecas
