sneakers: classics to customs @ NGV

So i finally went to the sneaker exhibition at NGV it was good, not what i had expected but im not sure exactly what i had expected to begin with. Mostly i was just jealous that i didnt own all those shoes myself. The thing i found lame was the way they kind of tried to emphasise the whole 'underground culture' aspect of sneaker collecting by their use of crappy club-like lighting, hip hop beats and crappy animations shown on tvs, i didnt think that it added to the exhibition in a good way, i mean it was probably better than if they were all just chucked into a white room but the atmosphere of it seemed just that little bit too contrived. For some reason sneaker collecting has just become really popular all of a sudden, it seems like everyone is doing it these days. im not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, it could be good because it widens the market and makes collecting rare sneakers harder or whatever, but then if everyone is doing it it kind of takes away from its underground cult following. if i owned all those shoes i'd wear them.