Nymag attended the first annual SneakerCon, where men came together to buy, sell, and trade crazy exclusive sneakers. These aren’t your regular ole 2/$89 Foot Locker buys, as some sneakers were priced in the thousands; Twenty-four carat gold Pumas, ’nuff said. These are kicks that make men drop their jaws the way a women would if she saw a pair for Christian Louboutin for Rodarte spike heels cross her path.
Some of the attendees confessed to owning thousands of pairs, after “giving away 3,000 pair just last month” of course. While others confessed to having a “sneaker” apartment or keeping extra pairs “in the garage or at mom’s house; wherever I can find space…” Finally, a bunch of men who get me…



