Crocs had existed for years, but it took Kanye West attaching his name to a foam shoe (the Yeezy Foam Runner) to flip the cultural signal from ugly to desirable, with resales hitting $900. This demonstrates that in consumer goods, the bottleneck is rarely the product—it's the social permission to want it. Celebrity association collapsed years of aesthetic resistance in a single release.
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