"I started out selling Nikes on eBay, now I'm making millions": The incredible rise of King Street's Crepslocker

A young man’s passion for designer trainers became the spark for multi-million pound fashion business Crepslocker. Mo Patel was living in a two-up, two-down terrace in Blackburn when he first had the idea to sell rare and coveted trainer styles after struggling to find the ones he wanted himself.

He started out by simply selling Nike Huaraches In 2014 on auction website eBay. Now he oversees a team of 14 selling thousands of wanted, rare and designer trainers by the likes of Yeezy, Dior, Nike and Louis Vuitton across the world with clients including footballers and superstars.

The online business became such a success that Mo has just realised another of his dreams - by opening his own bricks-and-mortar store in the centre of Manchester, with a stylish unit on King Street. Inside the store there is a quite dazzling array of rare and unusual trainers and designer accessories - including an entire hero wall dedicated to rare and coveted Nikes, Yeezy Belugas for £325, designer Dior Jordans priced at £10,495 and coveted Louis Vuitton trainers for around £1,000 - £2,500.

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Looking around the stylish store, Mo, 36, beams: “I’ve started from nowhere and now I’m looking at other stores across the UK. Nobody believed that this could work, yet now here I am with my own store in the centre of Manchester, it was always my dream and now it is reality.”

It all started with Mo’s passion for unusual trainers. Back in 2014 Mo was working for his dad Naz Patel and his uncles’ furniture business at Gordon Mill in Blackburn, while living in his modest £72,000 two-up, two-down terraced house. It was then the idea for Crepslocker first hatched.

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