The overheated art market of the 1980s has cooled only a little since, and is still way beyond the means of many interested in owning a piece of collectibleart.
Auction house specialists will tell you that for any art work or collectible, a celebrity association or former celebrity owner will bolster the value of that piece, not just the next time it is offered for sale, but in the future too.
Fascinated by coffee table books on boots as art, and a student of collectible boots and boot history, his niche is to recreate or pay homage to lost classic designs of the 1930s to 1960s.