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Luxury goods "remix" a growing trend and collecting

Will HYPE, as the name suggests, be a hype or a new form of collecting? And in the process of better understanding, online auctions are growing, setting records for Luxury remix objects

Luxury goods "remix" a growing trend and collecting

With the start of digital technology in recent years, a bit of everything collecting is changing, from stamps to remixes, preferably of luxury items, status symbol brands and NFTs. More and more auctions are the online auctions that they offer vintage trivia which are awarded at important figures and "all sold" catalogues.

The Handbags x HYPE: The Luxury Remix by Christie's it reached a total of $2.902.000. The sale sold at 97% per lot and 142% above the lowest estimate.

Leading up the sale were a pair of game-worn and doubly-signed Air Jordan XIIIs from the final game of the regular season. Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls championship season, sold for $375.000.

NIKE, GAME-WORN ON APRIL 18, 1998

Other highlights of the sale include a full collection of Virgil Abloh Nike Off Whites, which he achieved $ 62.500, and a full set of Kanye West Adidas Yeezy 350s, which made $37.500.

This collection includes 50 pristine pairs of Off-White x Air Jordan trainers, designed by Virgil Abloh, representing every adult model released to the public from the collaboration's launch in 2017 to the end of 2020. This group includes "The Ten", The 10 original Nike models Virgil was commissioned to reinvent, which due to popularity, evolved into Virgil's redesign of some of the most famous models in the legendary history of the brand.
HYPE: The Luxury Remix

The sale also achieved exceptional results for the pieces Hermès, including: a rare Bleu Marine, White, Orange Faubourg Sellier Birkin 20, sold for $175.000.

A rare one Matte White Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin 35, which reached $137.500; and a Braise Porosus Crocodile Birkin 25, which made $62.500.

Another highlight of the sale was MBD: a bulletproof vest Signed DONDA and 1-of-1 NFT, sold for $75.000.

A 1-on-1 interoperable NFT bulletproof vest that serves as a digital representation of the physical vest worn on August 5, 2021, complete with digital 3D data describing the characteristics of the physical vest.

This two-part lot included the physical bulletproof vest worn by Kanye West during his August 2021 listening event and a 1-of-1 NFT, the first to be offered in a luxury sale at Christie's.

Further important results have been obtained for a Supreme pinball machine, sold for $52.500;

it's a Coco Chanel Bearbrick, which exceeded its highest estimate by more than three times and sold for dollars 35.000; and a set of five Pearl x Supreme drum kits, which made $16.250.

TO COCO CHANEL 1000% BE@RBRICKCHANEL X MEDICOM, 2006
AT STUDIO SELECT FIVE-DRUM SETPEARL X SUPREME, 2019

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