Ethan Saywell
Hype Pieces - Five Lanes @ BNZ Centre
It is often the case where people who love something enough, craft a business out of that love. Ethan is one of those people.
It all started back in High School, where he would buy used sneakers, clean them up and on-sell them on Facebook or Instagram for a small profit… aiding his investment to purchase more sneakers.
Ethan’s love of sneakers started as a young teenager watching YouTube fashion clips from London and America but to be good at on-selling, you need to know what sells. You also need to have a good network of people you trust when purchasing as Ethan says he has been burnt.
If you didn’t know, the hype around sneakers has been around for a while and even a Netflix TV series on the craze called Sneaker Heads.
Ethan tells us that in the early days of the sneaker craze, some people would camp outside stores for two days waiting for a new sneaker drop.
Ethan’s first job was delivering flyers for a property manager, and he still does this occasionally to help pay bills and because he likes to keep busy.
He ventured into supplying stores around New Zealand with sneakers to be sold on consignment before taking the next big step and opening his very own store called ‘Hype Pieces’ in Five Lanes at the BNZ Centre. He said he had his eye on the BNZ site for a while before taking the plunge.
What’s in the future? Well, he says at some point getting a bigger store and maybe even opening a second store is on the cards.
One thing is certain, opening this store has given Ethan a sense of accomplishment and turned his love of sneakers into a business, so all power to him.
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