People didn’t love the Yeezys the way they did for no reason.” This also marked the first time West spoke ill of Nike publically, signaling future rants yet to come. “There’s a reason I was the only rapper allowed to design a shoe with Nike,” he stated, “which means there has to be another step. “Me doing the Yeezys and not having a joint venture with Nike the next day would have been like if I made ‘Jesus Walks’ and then wasn’t allowed to make an album,” West said. (He told Lowe he hopes to eventually be “the anchor of the first trillion dollar company.”) He said that without a large corporation’s infrastructure, the most he would be able to design would be T-shirts, likening his limitations to the time before Rocafella gave him a record deal. This was the first time West expressed his feeling that he couldn’t impact culture with fashion without the support of a mega corporation like Adidas to back his mega aspirations. “I want a joint venture the way Stella McCartney has,” he told Lowe. By contrast, he said he has so more to offer to brands, and to the world, as an actual designer of products, from high school basketball uniforms to film. He explained to Zane Lowe that in traditional celebrity endorsement deals, the celeb’s input on the products themselves usually amounts to nothing more than “patina,” and took shots at the empty “creative director” titles celebrities are often given.
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Over the course of an hour, he made the case for why he deserved the chance to design a full collection, not simply collaborate on one-offs. In this extensive and endlessly talked-about interview with Zane Lowe, West expanded at length on the ideas from “Black Skinhead,” articulating his frustrations and gripes with the fashion industry in great detail. September 2013: Kanye Gives Epic Interview On BBC Radio 1 With Zane Lowe Outlining His Frustrations with the Fashion Industry Here, we present the unabridged guide to Kanye West’s fashion history-including the good, the bad, the mind-blowing, and the sometimes ugly. And yet it’s only now, on the day that his new collaboration with Adidas will be unveiled at a highly anticipated fashion show in New York, that he’s finally getting the platform to express his vision in a way he feels he has long deserved. But Kanye’s history in the fashion industry is as long and involved as his career in music, and since he burst onto the scene in 2004 with The College Dropout, his impact on men’s fashion has been immense. “I think, like, this moment right here is maybe the first time where people can see, like, ‘Oh that’s his opinion,” he said. He talked at length about his specific design choices-like how he chose certain fabrics while picturing “dudes in Milan being shot by Tommy Ton”-but also about how this capsule collection was symbolic of a new era for him personally, one where he might be seen not as a rapper or a celebrity, but as a fashion designer.
(It’s since been scrubbed from the Internet.) Standing in a Paris showroom, West spent nearly fifteen minutes explaining to a room of fashion editors every stitch, detail, and decision that went into the military-inspired capsule. Blur it out, otherwise your submission will be removed ASAP.In January 2014, a video surfaced of Kanye West talking through his second capsule collection with French denim label A.P.C. Do NOT post a screenshot in which we can see the username of an "un-wavy" user.Do NOT spam or take part in spamming the frontpage with 1 type of post/content - example) or your post will be removed.Do NOT share or request copyrighted content (some exceptions apply).
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