Trainer Spotting: The Instagram Account You Should be Following

Most of the best workplaces in the world seem to have open lines of communication across the ranks. With that in mind, at Sneaker Freaker, we often venture into our meeting room for a good old fashioned pow-wow. Fun fact: our meeting room is housed inside a giant red Nike shoe box. In that same room, we recently discussed that with over one billion Instagram accounts floating around in cyberspace, there would have to be some gems that we hadn’t uncovered just yet. Despite the fact we practically spend our lives online — hunting down news, cracking leaks, and reaching out to our sources — there’s absolutely no way that we’ve seen everything. And we were right!

Like Sergey, we hope Trainer Spotting will become a useful archive for sneaker enthusiasts and cultural scholars in years to come. But even if it doesn’t, it’s still cool as hell!

While we were tuning up this interview with Sergey, he was busy posting pics of George Harrison wearing Patrick Marathon sneakers in 1978, actress Kim Cattrall in some fancy Nike Air Trainer SC His in 1991, and Mystee Beckenbach rocking some Jordan 4s, but you’ll have to go find those for yourself. With thousands of photos in his archive, you can be sure Sergey has no intention of slowing down in the immediate future. So take your two thumbs to the search bar, and type in two words: Trainer Spotting.

Author’s Note: If you can ID those W Logo joints that Eddie Van Halen is wearing, or MJ’s M-logo Cortez-like sneakers, drop us a DM and, in return, we’ll send you the next copy of Sneaker Freaker magazine for free!