Do you know an avid collector?
For antique trader Mehdi Sanssar it all began with a pair of brown leather Nikes his mum bought him at a store north of Paris in the late 1980s.
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The Frenchman, who has lived with wife Korreen and three kids in rural Hawke's Bay since 2009, still has a wardrobe jammed full, with about 70 boxes of sneakers, but it's a far cry from the 130 he owned at "peak fetish" about five years ago.
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