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In a nondescript warehouse at an undisclosed location in Northern New Jersey, there sits a garage space full of neatly stacked sneakers—some on shelves, some not—a basketball hoop, an Armenian flag, and a fridge full of beer. Twenty-one-year-old Ari Sarafyan, the man behind cook group AK Chefs and soon-to-be-launched resale shop Private Exhbit, wears a white Supreme x Hanes T-shirt dirtied from moving boxes around all day, a pair of basketball shorts, and Nike x A Cold Wall Vomeros. I hadn't met Sarafyan yet, but had known his brother, Lawrence, who goes by Armenian Kicks, who also works as part of the sneaker reselling operation, for quite some time.