{"id":98221,"date":"2020-10-26T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-sneaker-collecting-sisters-behind-thechickswithkicks\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:35:05","slug":"meet-the-sneaker-collecting-sisters-behind-thechickswithkicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-sneaker-collecting-sisters-behind-thechickswithkicks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the sneaker-collecting sisters behind @TheChicksWithKicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Meet the sneaker-collecting sisters behind @TheChicksWithKicks<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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S<\/span>isters Ariana, Dakota and Dresden Peters think of sneakers as works of art.<\/span><\/p>\n

With their father, retired real estate developer Douglas Peters, the squad of 20-somethings spent most of their lives curating and building up a collection of well over 6,000 pairs of designer sneakers. It\u2019s one of the most drool-worthy private collections in existence, attracting rapp<\/a>ers and NBA stars and other well-healed sneakerheads to their family\u2019s six-bedroom, 14,300-square-foot waterfront mansion in Boca Raton, Fla. \u2014 which, of course, boasts a pro-size, indoor basketball court.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sisters Dakota (from left), Ariana and Dresden Peters, better known as @TheChicksWithKicks.<\/span>Justin Namon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cLil Yachty<\/a> flew in from Atlanta to buy from us,\u201d says Ariana, who resides with her father at their Mediterranean-style home, while Dakota and Dresden now live elsewhere in the area. \u201cHe spent hours looking through the collection and posted about it. That was cool because most people are more private. They don\u2019t want to offend their regular \u2018sneaker plug.\u2019 Sneaker [dealers] can be very sensitive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, pair by pair, the sisters \u2014 better known as @TheChicksWithKicks<\/a> to their loyal following of 145,000 Instagram followers \u2014 are beginning to sell shoes from their overflowing closets publicly for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did it on a whim last September,\u201d explains Ariana, who also founded Peters Realty<\/a> (a commercial and residential brokerage) with her sisters. \u201cOver the years, so many people have made us offers we shouldn\u2019t have refused. So we decided to post a sneaker for sale and see what would happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Justin Namon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those shoes, Converse Dr. J. Game<\/a> Shoes, sold in a flash for $12,000. Since then, they\u2019ve added more and more items for sale\u00a0\u2014 including rare vintage sneakers, samples, prototypes and \u201csneakers that no one at the time saved\u201d \u00a0\u2014 to their Instagram, potentially raising funds to purchase a new family home south of Fifth on Miami Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sisters say there\u2019s currently no \u201cHoly Grail\u201d sneaker left that they don\u2019t own, pointing to their complete collection of new Adidas Consortium Superstar samples made for the Beastie Boys and their expansive collection of Nike Air Jordan 1s from 1985. <\/span><\/p>\n

True to their artful approach, they don\u2019t collect superhyped new-release sneaks like Yeezys. You might say they prefer blue-chip kicks to contemporary. And with thousands of shoes worth thousands of dollars (\u201csome pairs are worth as much as certain cars,\u201d Ariana notes), the whole caboodle could be worth millions, although they\u2019ve never had the entire collection appraised. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Other standouts in the collection include Adidas Consortium Superstars samples, custom made for the Beastie Boys.<\/span>Justin Namon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It all started in the 1980s with a pair of Nike Air Force 1s. \u201cOur father has a great eye \u2014\u00a0he saw that sneakers are an art form,\u201d recalls Ariana. \u201cAnd he liked that the Air Force 1 was dressier. It was an elevated sneaker that you could wear out to dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, the elder Peters began to buy sneakers two pairs at a time, wearing one pair and preserving the other in mint condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack then, there were very few people who thought to do this, to buy and store a shoe and not wear it,\u201d says Dresden. \u201cNow everyone has that mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the 1990s, Douglas was buying hundreds of pairs a year, along with promo items and store displays for sneakers and luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Chanel, all of which are extremely rare today. Still, it took time for culture to catch up to his forward-thinking fashion sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The basketball court at the Peters\u2019 home in Boca Raton, Fla.<\/span>Courtesy of the Peters Sisters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur dad went out in South Beach 15 years ago wearing a pair of Air Force 1s,\u201d recalls\u00a0Ariana. \u201cThe restaurant wouldn\u2019t let him in. That would never happen nowadays. Sneakers are made by every top designer, and they are appropriate everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Including on the high-end auction block. The siblings say several major auction houses have inquired about their collection, one of which they invited to curate a sale of select pieces for Miami Art Basel 2020. But with that art fair canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, the sisters are embracing social<\/a>-media sales for the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t start as a business for us, it started as a passion,\u201d says Ariana. \u201cIt\u2019s really great to see other people begin collecting on their own and revive this as an art form.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Prop Stylist: Aelana Curran; Hair: Steven Hoeppner at ABTP using R+Co; Makeup: Paola Orlando at ABTP using Chanel Beauty and Dior<\/strong><\/em>\n <\/div>\n