Vogue Ends Their Partnership With Kanye West Right After Balenciaga Also Terminated Their Partnership With Kanye West
American producer, rapper, and fashion designer Kanye West is facing consequences for the slew of antisemitic and offensive remarks he recently made.
A Vogue spokesperson told on Friday that neither the magazine nor its editor-in-chief Anna Wintour intend to work with Kanye West again after his anti-Semitic rants and support for the White Lives Matter cause, per Page Six.
According to the outlet, a representative said the magazine and Wintour had no intention of working with the rapper again after West ranted about Jewish people in a tweet on October 9. The tweet was removed by the social media platform for violating its guidelines and Twitter later confirmed to Buzzfeed News that he'd been banned from the platform.
Tonight at a Parisian location that would be irresponsible to share, Kanye West — or Ye, as he now prefers — will present his eleventh fashion show, an event that came together away from the official Paris Fashion Week calendar. It will be his ninth collection for Yeezy (which, as of now, is formally named YZY) and his fourth-ever show in Paris, according to Vogue
Seven of the eight previous YZY shows were in New York. Why Paris now? “Paris is the high cathedral of fashion. If I’m doing music, rap music, I’m going to put my hoodie on, and get an Uber, and go over to Future’s house. Day after day. And if we’re working on clothes? Paris.”
He held two pre-YZY shows in Paris under his own name in 2011 and 2012. His most recent show here (as a designer, not guest or model) was immediately before the pandemic at the front of 2020.
We met on Sunday, the night before the show, at his venue. Ye grabs a bowl of salmon salad from the buffet and leads me, along with his daughter North and his just-appointed show PR rep Lucien Pagès, to a corner away from the focused uproar of preparation. It was a busy day for Ye. He opened Balenciaga for Demna, a designer he calls “the master cutter”, who, until very recently, partnered with him on an ill-fated collaboration for Gap. Later, he sat at Givenchy to show support for Matthew Williams, who worked in design on Pastelle (Ye’s first-ever label) and later served as art director at Donda, West’s creative agency.
Shortly before 6pm, he returned to the show venue to check up on a YZY collection that he oversaw and was designed in consultation with Shayne Oliver. As I wait, I chat with Michèle Lamy and Christine Centenera, the stylist who has been the one constant at all 11 Ye shows. “He’s building a world,” says Centenera as she nips out to get some flats for the long night ahead.
We sit. Chewing ruminatively, Ye delivers the first of many delicious lines. “You know, specifically in this fashion context, I see myself more as a George Lucas than a fashion designer. I work with true, true, true fashion designers. Like Shayne, like Demna, like Riccardo Tisci… My main job is to be a producer, in a Quincy Jones sense. Who takes a symphony of ideas and then plays a song.”
Asked to share the concept of the collection we will see later, he says: “There’s just people. From the same planet. And sometimes, in high school, it feels like we don’t fit in. And in a situation like this, we have the opportunity to come together to express who we are.” It aligns with his career as an artist: Ye’s first three studio albums were The College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation.
Ye is thinking as he talks, putting it together, producing. I postulate a synthesis: “So a uniting force for people who might be considered unconventional as they are developing, but for whom unconventionality is actually the superpower?” He replies: “I like the way you put it.” So how does that — an anti-uniform for the anti-conventional — translate into clothing? “It’s leaning into the shape of how I see this future world… this alternate world. But in high school. It’s focused on curriculum because both my parents are educators.”
In our chat, we cover various stages of Ye’s integration — not always (if ever) seamless — into Paris’s fashion world. It began in 2009 when he famously arrived on the scene with Virgil Abloh, Don C, Taz Arnold, Chris Julian and Fonzworth Bentley. Tommy Ton got the shot. It was the beginning of a paradigm shift for the industry. Says Ye: “We loved it. We love it. We had our idea and our new attitude. And the world agreed with us: it was like the invention of rock ‘n’ roll: it was a new genre.” He adds: “We fought so hard.”
Ye sees his history and future in the fashion business as a three-chord progression. The first was that moment of insertion, back in 2009. “We fought to get the credit from the fashion guard and elites.” The second was when he and the many other talents he helped seed — crucially Abloh, but others too — started delivering. “We fought to get the audience and give them the product.” And the third? “To clean up the companies.”
On Friday, sources told us the fashion royal is finally ready to cut the Grammy winner loose after he made a series of stunning threats against Jewish people, and then aggressively doubled down on them after he was given the opportunity to apologize.
“Anna has had enough,” an insider told us, adding, “She has made it very clear inside Vogue that Kanye is no longer part of the inner circle.”
It’s unclear exactly what that will mean in practice — whether, for example, Vogue’s website will just not carry images from his fashion shows — but at the very least, it seems as if he’ll no longer be welcome at the Met Gala and that he won’t be featured on the magazine’s cover again.
Also on Friday, haute couture fashion house Balenciaga said that it will no longer work with West.
And earlier this month, Adidas announced it was reviewing its relationship with Ye.
"After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review. We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period," the company said in a statement, CNBC reported.
Sources: Page Six, Insider, Vogue, CNBC, Buzzfeed News
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