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For South Africa’s city dwellers, sneakers are more than just shoes. As a marker of personality as well as social status, they are cared for and worn with pride, and youths compete to hunt down the rarest models from a market flooded with old and new sneakers – including many fakes. “Sneakers kind of tell your story,” graffiti artist Rasik “Mr.ekse” Green said as he was spray-painting a commissioned mural on the rooftop of a building in downtown Johannesburg. Green’s elaborate graffiti designs – which he also uses to redecorate and personalise sneakers – are highly sought after. The shoes are often an expression of geographic roots in a country with 12 official languages and dozens of ethnicities. ....
Queuing outside an upmarket Johannesburg clothing store, young fashion lovers hope to lay their hands on the latest sneakers to come out of the US. ....
Queueing outside an upmarket Johannesburg clothing store, young fashion lovers hope to lay their hands on the latest sneakers to come out of the United States. For South Africas city dwellers, sneakers are more than just shoes. As a marker of personality as well as social status, they are cared for .. ....