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Kanye West trainers selling for more than $1million in record-breaking auction
Kanye West’s first pair of own-brand trainers are to become the most expensive kicks ever sold.The rapper’s prototype Yeezy size-12s are going under the hammer at London auction house Sotheby’s for more than $1million (£728,000).It beats the world-record £408,000 paid last year for a pair of 1985 Air Jordan 1 sneakers designed for and worn by basketball icon Michael Jordan.Kanye won’t directly profit from the sale of the Nike Air Yeezy 1 pair as they’re being flogged by trainer nut Ryan Chang.But the sale will boost the value of his sneaker empire, already valued at £3.4billion.Kanye – currently divorcing Kim Kardashian, 40 – was last month named the richest black man in US history, with an estimated net worth of almost £5billion.He wore