Simon -Woody- Wood, founder and editor-in-chief of Sneaker Freaker magazine, has spent the last two decades analyzing the global cult of footwear fanatics. That experience directly inspired World-s Greatest Sneaker Collectors, a stonking 752-page journey into the priceless stockpiles and obsessive minds of prominent aficionados.From Tokyo to New York, via London, Philadelphia, Melbourne, and Stj-rdal, no crumbled midsole is left unturned as over 2,500 vintage classics, unique athlete SMUs, unobtainable samples, handmade 1-of-1 prototypes, stratospherically priced colabs, and Player Exclusives and game-worn Jordans with multi-million-dollar price tags are lauded with gusto. The endless quest for -Holy Grails- is both blessing and curse as our collectors fiend, scheme, and dream of -the one- shoe they don-t yet own!Glossy portraits are augmented with a series of informative -How-to- guides stuffed with pro tips on sneaker photography, storage, insurance, cleaning, and avoiding the cou
