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"I spent more than £100k on 500 pairs of trainers - I have a storage unit to house them"

2024-02-20 547 Dailymotion

Meet the woman so obsessed with trainers she's spent £100,000 on 500 pairs - and has to rent a storage unit to hold her collection.<br /><br />Sherlina Nyame, 33, has turned the biggest bedroom in her home into a walk-in wardrobe for her ever-increasing collection.<br /><br />She's been collecting sneakers ever since she got her first pair of Reebok Classics aged seven.<br /><br />But her collection really took off when she moved from a studio apartment into a house with partner, Patrick Adjaye, 34, a fashion designer.<br /><br />Now, the largest room in the house is filled with 200 pairs and Sherlina has an off-site storage unit filled with trainers.<br /><br />She said she has so many pairs of shoes she will often forget which ones she has and will be surprised when she opens a box to see what is inside.<br /><br />Content creator Sherlina has "hundreds" of Nike Air Force trainers alone in different colours.<br /><br />Her favourite pair is Nike Dunk Grateful Dead and her most rare set is Off White Jordan Ones.<br /><br />Sherlina, from Fulham, London, said: "It was hard for us when I was younger.<br /><br />"Growing up I was only allowed to have one pair of sneakers for the school year and that was the sneaker I had to hold on to.<br /><br />"Shoes mattered - the passion was always there for me.<br /><br />"When I got a bit older, I had a job and I was able to afford a pair here and there.<br /><br />"Initially, my sneaker closet started out as a few shelves in my studio apartment.<br /><br />"I then moved over to London and had a little room with a few shelves and then when we made the big move into the house the biggest bedroom has turned into a walking sneaker wardrobe."<br /><br />She has Nike, Adidas and Reebok trainers - in several different colours and designs.<br /><br />She said: "I am a huge Nike girl - I really like Nike.<br /><br />"I love the Air Force One - it is so timeless. They have survived through the decades - they will never go out of fashion.<br /><br />"I am a huge fan of Air Jordan Ones because of the history and I like the Nike Dunks.<br /><br />"Because I go to the gym a lot, I like to wear Asics as they're so comfy.<br /><br />"I have my life wear sneakers, I have my collection that I wear when I want to go for a walk and I have a collection for the gym."<br /><br />As well as having several different brands in her collection, Sherlina also has the same pair of shoe in different colours.<br /><br />She said: "I have multiple different colour waves.<br /><br />"In Air Force, I will say I have hundreds of different colours.<br /><br />"One thing that non-sneakerheads won't understand is that you can have multiple pairs of the same colour.<br /><br />"It is not always about wearing them all the time so you also want to store one.<br /><br />"I look at my sneakers like art, I have an art gallery. Sometimes when I like a sneaker so much I will wear them every day so I will have a second pair.<br /><br />"That's why I say one to rock and one to stock."<br /><br />Sherlina says her fiance Patrick, isn't fazed by her collection as he has around 300 pairs of shoes himself.<br /><br />She said: "He is a sneakerhead himself. His collection is not as big as mine but he has some very expensive sneakers.<br /><br />"For example, Jordan Off Whites - they can be worth thousands.<br /><br />"We are helping each other with the sneaker addiction."<br /><br />Sherlina shares her epic collection on her social media - @sherlinanym - where she boasts being the biggest female sneaker blogger in the world.<br /><br />She said: "I always dress down from the shoe up, when I go out I decide what shoes to wear first.<br /><br />"Depending on the colour, the pattern, the design, I will decide what to wear.<br /><br />"I never think about an outfit first, for me it really is the art of it."

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