The Answers with... STEVE HARRIS

Cofounder and CEO of Sneakertopia, a pop-up museum in Los Angeles devoted to sneaker culture and art, Harris has been interested in fashion and footwear long before the term “sneakerhead” ever existed. The New York native now lives in LA, but his passion for style began in college at Howard University, where he first majored in fashion design and, with a friend, launched a clothing line called Tribe Vibe that they sold into Macy’s.

Harris then transferred to the communications school at Howard to study film, and that experience defined much of his career as a producer and network executive, with or directing the animated music video for Big Pun and Ashanti’s “How We Roll” to creating “Being able to work with icons and idols I’ve admired and been inspired by has been amazing, and being in the boardroom at a network meant I was in a position to champion those projects and get them made.” Now he’s similarly promoting the work of sneaker artists and collaborators through Sneakertopia, which, he says, is the most elaborate “show” he’s produced yet.