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Sotheby's to auction From the Archive

Sotheby's

Source type: Press release
Published: 7/20/2020
Accessed: 11/8/2026
Citation: Scoped to the quoted statement. Not evidence of contract terms, ownership, royalties, or any release beyond what the text says.

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Read November 8, 2026 with a plain HTTP client (default identity, no browser spoofing) and converted to text locally; the quoted sentence was verified against the saved text. Auction-house press release; a third-party description of the sneakers' provenance, not a Nike statement.

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Claims linked to this source

5 archive claims across 3 records. A linked source is not blanket verification. Archive summaries and source excerpts are distinguished below, with qualifications retained.

be-nike

businessEntity · 1 claim

Title
Archive summary: Sotheby's press release names Nike as the party Ye collaborated with on Air Yeezy releases. The archive records the entity under the source-literal name Nike; a legal name, corporate structure, ownership and trademark rights are not asserted.
Source excerpt: In the years following, West famously collaborated with Nike for a wide variety of Air Yeezy releases.
Claim confidence: documented
Source location: From the Archive release, Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy Sample item
Extracted: 11/8/2026

rel-ye-nike-collaboration

relationship · 3 claims

Kind
Archive summary: Sotheby's press release states that Ye collaborated with Nike on a variety of Air Yeezy releases. This supports the existence and kind of the relationship only, not its start, end, terms or any royalty arrangement.
Source excerpt: In the years following, West famously collaborated with Nike for a wide variety of Air Yeezy releases.
Claim confidence: documented
Source location: From the Archive release, Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy Sample item
Extracted: 11/8/2026
Relationship from · field from
Archive summary: Sotheby's press release names West, in an item headed Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy Sample, as the party who collaborated with Nike. This supports Ye as one endpoint of the relationship only.
Source excerpt: In the years following, West famously collaborated with Nike for a wide variety of Air Yeezy releases.
Claim confidence: documented
Source location: From the Archive release, Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy Sample item
Extracted: 11/8/2026
Relationship to · field to
Archive summary: Sotheby's press release names Nike as the party West collaborated with on Air Yeezy releases. This supports Nike, under the source-literal name, as the other endpoint only.
Source excerpt: In the years following, West famously collaborated with Nike for a wide variety of Air Yeezy releases.
Claim confidence: documented
Source location: From the Archive release, Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy Sample item
Extracted: 11/8/2026

Nike Air Yeezy general release

event · 1 claim

Date
Archive summary: Sotheby's states that the sample pairs were produced in December 2008, before the general release in April 2009. Recorded at month precision; the release itself is not independently confirmed here.
Source excerpt: produced in December 2008 in Nike’s Feng Tay factory, prior to their general release in April 2009
Claim confidence: documented
Source location: From the Archive release, Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy Sample item
Extracted: 11/8/2026