The Fashion World Turns on Kanye West

[G_j]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-fashion-world-reacts-white-lives-matter-shirt-1234605049/?fbclid=IwAR2YxyPbLKc5jS15xqmvMLCVTDMCcjNElgJQ42bAGrVbY63CWdfyKOIa33M

"[You're] just an insecure narcissist that’s dying for validation from the fashion world," Supreme creative director Tremaine Emory wrote on Instagram

BY TOMÁS MIER
OCTOBER 6, 2022

KANYE WEST IS facing the repercussions of (and harsh critiques for) his most recent attention-seeking antics in fashion. After having models strut with “White Lives Matter” T-shirts during his YZY show in Paris Monday, leaders in the fashion world heavily criticized and slammed the provocateur for his ill-executed attempt at sending a message about race.

West, for his part, has doubled down on his Candace Owens-endorsed “fashion statement” and weaponized his social media to 1) say that “Black Lives Matter was a scam,” 2) attack Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who described his White Lives Matter show as an “incredibly irresponsible and dangerous act,” and 3) blame the CEO of LVMH for the death of his alleged “best friend” Virgil Abloh.

In other words, he’s backed his nonsense-built YZY line with even more nonsense. The Vogue editor put it best: “The T-shirts this man conceived, produced, and shared with the world are pure violence,” Karefa-Johnson wrote. “There is no excuse, there is no art here.”


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[underpants]

1. Does he somehow think that Candice Owens adds credibility

to him?

I guess he’s trying to be different. The right will drop Owens like a hot rock in a second. Remember that Sheriff from Milwaukee who was everyone’s black friend in right wing world? Yeah he served his purpose and has disappeared at least from their media.

[Caliman73]

2. When you have few allies, any ally is credible.

Not in the real sense of the word, but from his perspective, anyone who feeds his ego is worth listening to. The guy had talent as a songwriter/rapper and parleyed that into a career, but everyone realizes now that his real talent is attracting attention to himself and feeding his ego. Like you said, as long as the right wing can use him, they will, when they get tired of his antics and overinflated sense of self, they will let him fall as they will let Owens fall, as they let Clarke fall, as they let Cain, and Carson, and, and, and...

[catsudon]

3. well

if people would stop buying his shoes that costs more than my iphone.

but consumers don't care. even the chinese counterfeits are selling like hotcakes.

[gratuitous]

4. And there's no room in the fashion world for insecure narcissists, pally!

I'm all for the public approbation directed at Kanye West for his execrable opinions, but if the fashion world turned out every insecure narcissist, the fall line would be nothing but gunny sacks and trash bags.

[Firestorm49]

5. Does anybody really give a shit about Kanye West?

[msongs]

6. fashion industry and kanye deserve each other, both wastes of time and resources IMO nt