Trainers

dude I've no idea who Common Projects are, they are selling what I can only surmise is over priced retro looking trainers, which have no technical or material advantage over a cheaper pair of stan smiths apart from they are "Common Projects".
I am surprised by this, whose the star name in that enterprise, why so lusted after by @Tenderloin, are they japanese? Limited Edition? Designed by someone "famous"? Mystically endowed with athletic properties? Going to make me stand out from the rest of the leather trainer wearing massive?

If you don't have answers to any/or all of these questions, then why keep replying?
Of course I could just stick my own interpretation on them as to why they cost so much, but the serious question bit of my first post was supposed to signify that I was actually looking for a reasoned answer, not just straight batting back to me.