Today adidas long term partner @kanyewest presented a collection as a designer in his own right. Congrats, Mr. West! pic.twitter.com/MRPM7vMlul
— adidas (@adidas) September 16, 2015
Kanye West launched his second NYFW show yesterday. This was Part II of his collaboration with Adidas, and the collection is called The Yeezy Collection, or Yeezy + Adidas or something. Much like the show this past spring, the clothes were not all that. Kanye believes that his strength is sportswear/atheleticwear, but I would not wear any of this on the street or in the gym. It basically looks like he repurposed some old pantyhose, some Spanx and some old Salvation Army coats. Almost everything is nude/beige. Eh.
You can see Vogue’s coverage here. Anna Wintour adores Kanye, so of course Vogue is going to go easier on him. Other outlets and fashion insiders haven’t been so kind though. People at the show were tweeting stuff about how it costs a lot of money to look so poor, and how all of the models looked homeless in the Yeezy Collection. It’s a look, I suppose.
Kanye got a lot of celebrity attendees for his show. In addition to a Yeezy-Collection-clad Kim Kardashian and North West, here’s who else attended: Anna Wintour, Drake, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Seth Meyers, Lorde, Riccardo Tisci, Jaden Smith and 2 Chainz. Kylie Jenner and one of the Hadid girls modeled in the show.
Kim had to wear some of Kanye’s creations, of course. She looked like a refugee Humpty Dumpty. Harsh? Perhaps. But OMG, ribbed leggings on a pregnant woman. Poor Kim. I kind of think North West had to wear baby-sized versions of the Yeezy Collection too. Ugh.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.
Seriously, a seam right down the middle of her crotch? Good lord.
those rag clothes are so ill fitting on the models too. at least 2 sizes too big.
what a f-ing joke.
I almost needed a trigger warning for that first photo of the models. The clothes make them look sad and emaciated, and that combined with the way they’re all lined up reminds me of photos I saw at the Dachau concentration camp. I don’t mean to be extreme, and I’m sorry if I hurt anyone by bringing that up. But that’s truly how that photo made me feel. Gave me chills, in an utterly bad way.
Shambles,
my feelings exactly.
They all look like they’re about to be executed.
If fashion is the reflection of your inner turmoil and of your own attitude towards life Kanye surely needs help.
I had that same exact thought. Everything about this is just awful.
Shambles you nailed it. Very creepy
I was kinda thinking horror movie, where a bunch of store mannequins all covered in dust from being shoved in the back room come to life and terrorize a city, but your description fits well too. Either way, it’s terrible and creepy and who the hell greenlighted this?!
Next year it’ll be blue and he’ll bring to life the Chidren Zombie Army of GoT.
Oh wait.. I’m digging that!
Agree
Paola – lol!
@Shambles exactly. And them being models and super skinny does not help the visual. Very off putting.
“If fashion is the reflection of your inner turmoil and of your own attitude towards life Kanye surely needs help.”
Holy Paola. I absolutely agree with you. I see despair, oppression, bleakness, and lifelessness here. I never thought I would say this, but my heart is kind of sad for Kanye. If this is what his inner world is like, it can’t be a very pleasant place to be.
Shambles,
all he needs to do to see life in full colors again is to come out of the closet.
It’s easy.
Here I was thinking that they looked unhappy. Thanks for making me snort coffee on my laptop. Worth it.
SHAMBLES – me too
OMG shambles, you nailed it.
Paola,
Again, I totally agree with you. I know someone exactly like this. Ex military, ex police– so I feel like he spent a lot of his life having this idea of what masculinity means hammered into him. At the same time, he’s so obviously gay. But everything he’s been trained to believe causes him to reject that, so he spends so much of his time trying to project this image of what he sees as masculinity. Steroids, always at the gym, always making these cringey, horribly uncomfortable sex jokes.
He’s trying so hard to be what he thinks a straight man should be that it’s turned him into a giant asshole, to be frank. When you know that really he would rather just be having a chai tea latte with his boyfriend and his dogs. And though the way he acts infuriates me a lot of the time, in the end I’m just so sad for him. Because if he were to be his true self, everyone in his life would absolutely love and accept him. But he’s so tangled up in what society has told him he has to be that he feels like he has to live a lie that makes him miserable. I hope someday he comes to know and love who he truly is, and I hope the same for Kanye.
ETA: many thanks to all above who have let me know I’m not alone in being Icked out by that photo.
@Shambles. That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the pic as well. Either that, or a slave/penal colony on some distant planet in a sci-fi movie.
That instagram video makes it look like Misbehaving model, but do you think that’s ‘ye’s “artistic” interpretation of himself doing his own thing in a sea of washed out emotionless robots?
Shambles- yes, that’s it. Also reminded me of some bizarre 1950s version of futuristic society where everybody has numbers instead of names and all dress alike in dreary style to greet the dictator…
The only one who pulls it off is the baby. Because, baby. Cute by default.
EXACTLY, Shambles. Concentration camp was my first thought, too, and I also asked myself: Is this too extreme a reaction? If I post this, are people going to yell at me?
You’re so not alone, as you can see; a lot of us reacted the same way!
district 12 gear.
Shambles, I felt exactly the same way when I saw this depressing display of *high* fashion(?) on that other psycophantic Kardashion-Jenner site. I tried to post almost the exact same thing as you have here, because the photos gave me the heebie-jeebies, but my comment get getting blocked.
KWest’s talent has no beginning, and his delusion has no end.
@Shambles You’re right on the money there. My first thought was they were like the mannequins attacking Rose and the Doctor in the episode “Rose” of Doctor Who, but yours fits creepily well.
Is this like a “walking incognito on Skidrow to avoid panhandlers” fashion line? That’s what it should had been called and it would had made some sense…it looks like it was inspired by the walking dead…good grief.
Oh Snap. You said it.
And how is this any different from his last “collection?” I was waiting for new photos and realized this must actually be them!
I thought it was the exact same stuff from last years L’Eggs Kollection too!
Why does anyone show up to his show? No famous models will walk for him – he got Kylie and the lesser Hadid sister to walk his show. Ooooh, big names.
Amber Rose is still his muse.
Holy camel toe, Batman!
My first impression is athletic wear for zombies.
I concur. I seriously thought the pic with Kanye & the models was a scene from the new season of Walking Dead.
I immediately thought of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Good point. But I don’t know if Kanye was thinking that deeply. Hell, maybe he was.
It’s a photo of a dystopian world with Yeezy as the ruler
This looks so uninspired!
watch out! you might hurt baby Yeezus’ feelings. Poor him, no one understands him…*sarcasm*
It works on North but not worthy of NYFW for adults. Perhaps, he should focus on a children’s line.
I don’t even think it works on North. They took a cute toddler and swathed her in something (that appears at least on my screen) the color of enteral nutrition. ick.
The thing about wearing saggy flesh tones is that it looks like saggy flesh. Never a good look!
You are spot on, Tiffany! 👏🌟👏
That is right Tiffany!
Shame on you Anna Wintour.
Kanye and the rest of the bunch are clearly clueless but Anna has totally lost her mind.
Those clothes are seriously offensive towards the fashion business as a whole.
North is the only one that looks cute. And not for the clothes she’s wearing.
I can’t even. I just can’t.
*leaves the room slamming the door*
I can also soak my oversized, old, ratty tracksuits in some black tea and be a fashion designer? Let me tell my boss right away!
He puts clothes on people that are easily 2 sizes too big, and yet Kim’s is painted on? Why is that? He’s pathetic and it was apparent by the Dlist bunch that showed up. I don’t know why anyone puts up with this overgrown spoiled man-child. Unbelievable!
That was my thought, he threw some white cotton adidas clothes in the washer with some peachy-brown dye, a voila!
Janie: Honestly, that’s what I came to say! It was only a couple of weeks ago that his wife rehashed a story from, ummm, I don’t know when, exactly, but a while ago, where she claims he encourages her to “dress more sexy”. Remember how she said he chucked her old clothes out and presented her with a room full of designer garms? One only has to look at what she’s been wearing lately. Pregnant or not, her “style” is just plain abysmal. I couldn’t care less about her weight. (One of my good friends was a tall, big lady, with black hair,, lovely skin and a gregarious, giving nature. She always dressed for her Apple-shaped body in well-fitting clothes and always looked fabulous. In the last 12 months she lost about 50kg, and last week had the op to remove all the excess skin. I can’t wait to see her!) my point is, there is no reason for KKW to dress like a has-been prozzie who’s moving towards managing her own stable. She’s got money and loads of contacts. She either chooses to dress as she does, believing she’s edgy and far more avant-garde than everyone else, or dresses to please him. If he really does tell her how to dress, what does this latest stuff mean? That women need to be covered in baggy clothe? The we shouldn’t have colours to enhance our mood or style? That our brains are beige and our clothes should reflect that? Is KKW going to start wearing his latest creations? Or is it simply that he has no creativity, no insight, no understanding of design or even fashion, and has just been taking the piss? If you ask me, they’re both bonkers.
If someone did this in Project Runway, for example, they would slam him. But since Wintour likes Kanye, everyone finds it fashion. It’s ridiculous and just show how pretentious fashion world is.
yeah, just what I was thinking. if this was put out by some random, it would be laughed off the runway. but because it’s KANYE, it’s genius?…uh, NO. it’s still garbage.
you can take the ugliest garment or pair of shoes that no one would wear, but slap a LV or Gucci or Versace label on it and the celebs will cut a b*tch to get one.
On project runway the discussion would be: (1) poor choice of fabric and a color that flatters virtually no one; (2) cheap looking; (3) where’s the design?; (4) I seriously question his taste level.
This is just so bad. Did he watch Zoolander and think “derelicte” was a good idea?
This is EXACTLY THAT!
Ben Stiller should be suing him for copyright infringement. Or explain to him that Derelicte was meant to be a joke, not a real fashion concept.
LOL that was my first thought too! “Derelicte” has come to life for real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paola and Mia V — You are right on target (this wouldn’t even sell IN Target). I can’t believe how everyone, even the great Wintour, fawns over these hideous clothes. If someone unknown did this collection they’d be laughed out of NYC. Kanye should stick to music because he has no talent as a fashion designer. If there was any doubt, just look at how awful Kim K’s outfit is.
Is this a joke?
That was my first thought too! I was sure someone had photoshopped the whole thing. WOW
I do wonder if Kanye does this as a joke to see if anyone will call him out, “Cool man, yeah I got away with that, man..hah! Wonder what other heinous sh*t I can put out on the table and they will grab it like it’s gold?” Ugh. He is so insufferable. I hope the real critics call him out on this.
Wasn’t there a fable about this? Oh right – The Emperor’s New Clothes
I did wonder how the models kept straight faces whilst wearing such POS clothing.
Sooooo hobo chic was the look here? I wouldn’t wear any of that. Maybe it’s the styling of the models, but it all looks like dusty oversized bags.
It’s an insult to hobos, because you know that this fugly stuff probably cost more than we make in a month. It all looks awful.
This is the exact. same. shyt. from last year. Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining, Kanye. Everyone (including Kim) look like homeless zombies. Stahp it!!
Exactly, this looks like the styling for some post-apocalyptic music video where everyone’s brains have been eaten by toxoplasmosis.
Possible influence?
https://youtu.be/FG1NrQYXjLU
Kanye reminds me of one of those spoilt lonely children we all meet at least once in our lives ( for me is my cousin) whose parents believe that sunshine comes out of their son/daughter’s behinds. No one dares to tell Kanye that yes ‘You’re special in your own special way but fashion isn’t your call. Now darling put down the scissors’ because of course he would throw a fit and no one will see the end of it.
Exactly. Someone in his younger years SHOULD have said ‘NO’ to him.
Kanye is a prime example of why you should never overdo it with your kids. They grow up to be nasty, self-centered idiots.
Quite a while ago, Donda West, in an interview, said about Kanye, the son and producer, `”Ì kiss the ground he walks on”. I thought this being a weird comment on an adult person.
I have been saying this for a while, but everyone (even some people here on Celebitchy) act like he is a genius. Several years ago I heard that his mother said, “I told Kanye everyday that he was a prince!” Everyone keeps saying that his mom kept him grounded, but she was the one that created his monster ego!
No no! It’s not the same! This time it’s all BEIGE! See??? Last time there was gray and army green! Last show the look was Homeless Ballet Dancer, this time it’s Dusty Pantyhose and Spanx!
He was inspired by his muse Kim. He took one look at what she wears under her terrible clothes and thought, “Yes! We need to see more of that! I shall design a collection made of nothing but the finest nude shapewear and compression pantyhose. But I think I’ll tear it up a bit for, like artistic expression.”
ahahah!! You crack me up!
Exactly this!!
What I find funny is that she wears his garbage on runway day and then never, ever again during the year.
I had to check the date of the pictures because I thought so too. He’s a hack and I feel for the designer who lost her place because of this tacky, ill-fitted, ill-conceived ego trip.
It really is the emperor’s new clothes, ridiculous.
The Emperor’s New Clothes – EXACTLY. Why is everyone so intimidated by Kanye? It looks exactly like his last collection, except in nude.
Proof that you can’t be good at everything.
I hate to say this but I think anytime anyone criticizes him for anything, his first reaction is to pull the racism card. It has happened time and again. This might explain Anna Wintour’s blind acceptance of him as well. No one likes to be called racist even if it isn’t true. Optics are everything.
Yes, they need the courage to tell him (when he claims his critics are racists): “I don’t care what you call me, Mr. West, it’s still ugly.”
was just coming on to make the same comment. Foolish people clapping over pantyhose, spanx and sweatshirts.
We have to be getting trolled. This can’t be for real! The delusion….
So he co*kblocked other hardworking designers to show a line that pretty much looks like the one he showed last year??? And I’m sorry Kanye, but your “walking dead chic” is not a good look.
Right? I’m trying to picture how I’d feel if I was one of those designers and I had to reschedule my show for THIS.
It’s ugly to the point of being offensive and as others have said since its Kanye all these big names are terrified to actually open their mouths and speak the truth.
I think it says a lot that there were only 2 real celebrities and Anna Wintour. (Seth and Drake). What he did to the other designers is so elitist! And inexcusable!!
She is nearly indistiguishable from OctoMom in that first pic!
Yes! She does! Octomom should not be an endpoint for anyone’s plastic surgery goals. Get treated for body dysmorphia ASAP, kim!
I can across a still from her sex tape during one of my Web wanderings, and the difference in her was astounding. Real nose, cheeks, lips, etc., her face had a normal shape, she must have a pound of fillers in there now. And her butt was normal and cute! How does she sit down now on whatever is going on there now?
I hope her kid turns out like Jane Fonda’s was (and still is, I hope), totally disinterested in all of jane’s BS, went on and had a normal life.
I can’t even notice what she is wearing any more because I can’t take my eyes off of her face. She has crossed the line with having work done and is beginning to look scary. If her husband loves her, he’ll tell her to stop
That is the only reason I came to this thread, to say that Kim has gone into the ‘wonk face’ mode of surgery and fillers. One eye looks slightly bigger than the other and soon she will have the non symmetrical eye blink thing where one eye blinks slower than the other, like Madonna. Her lips alone tip the hilarious scale at this point. Body Dysmorphia is thy disease Kim, get ye to a psyche clinic, fast.
It is sad that Pimp Mama’s REAL legacy is ALL of her children having Body Dismorphic issues. Every single one of them. I thought Koutney would be the hold out but when she started ramping up the bikini and barely there evening wear a few weeks ago I knew that she was on board the train as well, she was just late to the station.
Kim usually looks great in beige but that moldering ace bandage color looks good on no one. Even baby looks bad.
One nice thing-her hair puff is adorable.
Nori’s hair puff is adorable. But I have a question – we always see her with her hair seemingly pulled very tight on top of her head. So much so that it looks like it hurts really bad!! I wonder if this poor baby gets headaches.
How is it possible for anything to look horrible on an adorable toddler? I cannot even figure out why anyone would choose that horrid color for a clothing line?
is adidas just humoring him?
i haven’t seen even one Yeezy thread in our local adidas store.
like this Yeezidas doesn’t exist in the wild?
also, lead balloons? more like hordes of used tea bags. they have that tired color.
i wonder what the Adidas seamster and seamstresses thought as they’re working on these things. “we’re being punked!”
And what makes it so devious is that Adidas produces really cheap and poor people do their best not to dress in rags. A very costly fashion show displaying expensive rags made by very poor people, that`s what it is.
Apparently this second collection is NOT partnered with Adidas. It’s Kanye’s own.
However since the collections are so similar as to be indistinguishable you’re forgiven for assuming they came from the same line. 😉
Ugly dime store crap, and I can only imagine what the price tag is on this stuff. Again, it was hot here in NYC but put Nori in a hoodie and knitted leggings so she can show off daddy’s craptastic “fashion” line. Those models look like an army dressed in Kim’s wardrobe complete with the vacant stare. Anna Wintour is losing credibility and fast.
It’s so funny to me that Kanye seems to encourage Kim to let all that flesh hang out while designing clothes that look like head-to-toe swaddling.
I don’t think he has the ability to design anything better than this. This is his biggest effort. Clearly for a talented designer this stuff belongs to primary school.
You know when you’re 7 and you hold your first pair of scissors?
Exactly that.
That’s true. These have all the finesse of the clothes I hand-sewed for my Barbie when I was 8 or so. Except mine were better tailored.
Pandora Sykes is a stylist and fashion writer/editor. She had a great humorous, self-aware but peeved take on this:
http://www.pandorasykes.com/the-kult-of-kanye/
Ah so Derelicte is a reality now.
Haha, I was just about to type the same thing!
Same
Yes! Exactly this! Yeezy’s Derelicte Campaign. Now bow down before his genius!
maybe this is part of some kind of reallyyyyy clever marketing campaign for the next Zoolander movie. Isn’t it coming out soon?
That would make too much sense
“The Yeezy Collection Part II went down like a lead balloon at NYFW”
Too bad his ego won’t go down the same way.
I feel like Adidas is trying to distance themselves a little with their “designer in his own right” tweet! They know these clothes (if you can even call them that) are atrocious! I’d love to know what pieces any of the buyers were actually interested in??? Do you think Kim left the house knowing how ridiculous she looked or do you think she thought she looked amazing and fashionable? The only positive about her outfit is that there is no stupid f’ing choker accessorizing it!
and no center part!
I actually feel sorry for Kim having to wear that stuff. She has to know it’s trash, right? And poor North!
THAT IS SUCH A GOOD POINT!
I also totally noticed that they did not say ANYTHING positive about the actual clothes in that tweet. It was perfectly written. Kanye will take it as support, and to everyone else it shows they are distancing themselves from these hideous sweat shirts.
That child has the uncanny ability to capture my feelings on her parents with every look she makes.
LOLZ you are so right!!!
“Drake, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Seth Meyers, Lorde, Riccardo Tisci, Jaden Smith and 2 Chainz. Kylie Jenner and one of the Hadid girls.”
How is this even a lineup, it’s all just buddies going as a favor. Wtf kind of a turnout is this, and why is he even getting attention? Who entertains these people’s delusions?
I’d love to know who went to Naeem Khan’s show at the same time. They saw gorgeous clothes. A listers, maybe?
I thought exactly the same. Except for Wintour (who has clearly shown herself to be delusional and no longer relevant in spotting the next big thing), almost all of these people are somehow sucking off that nasty family.
Did Jayden wear his Batman suit again? Would look better than what was on stage.
What, no Jay-Z and Beyoncé?
Kim’s face is looking terrible. Her lip fillers have distorted the lower half and her nose job shortened her nose too much so there’s too much top lip and she looks Muppet. She never should have touched a thing on her face because she started out gorgeous and now just looks 40+ and inhuman. Someone had better make sure North West never messes with herself like all the PS addicts in this family have done. Hopefully Kanye will remember Donda and never allow it.
I legit said to myself that she looked very miss piggyish but chalked it up to my dislike for her
You nailed it QQ, especially in that side shot.
I am very very tired of untalented people being indulged simply because they are famous, and companies hiring them just for the free publicity. This is ridiculous.
Sacré bleu! It looks like the Multiples/Danskin collection. Copyright infringement!
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f2/a5/66/f2a56632b19d639cbf592920f94ac8cc.jpg
Kayne’s fashion show was a flop, but the comments online are just amazing! Second City should start looking at the comment sections for new talent.
Wow, that is the worst “fashion” I’ve ever seen.
Kim’s face is looking crazy. I know she’s pregnant and I should give her a break but I don’t think it’s pregnancy that’s making her look like that…more likely the lack of fillers.
I totally believe she is still using fillers , so I dont think you are far off.
I have to say I wish my baby bumps had majorly magically shrank and expanded depending on the day. *side eye*
Regarding Kim’s wildly inconsistent baby bumps, I couldn’t believe how insignificant the “bump” looks in these photos from the fashion show. She doesn’t look pregnant here! I’m driving everyone crazy about this, but it’s NOT my imagination—-is it? Just a matter of days ago, Kim was in her skin-tight outfits and her belly looked enormous, a huge conspicuous curve starting under the bust. I’ve been pregnant twice with my kids and NOTHING could have squashed me as flat as Kim appears here. Certainly not Spanks. And recalling the beach photos of Kim with North, she looked fat, not pregnant, and there was NO swelling of a bump beneath the breasts. What gives???
She is a living example of why (if you know you want to go down the baby path) someone may want to wait until after they have kids to get major work done. Because you just never know how things will settle when your body changes like that.
Her face looks like a weird, scary mannequin. My seven months pregnant face does not look like a plastic cat face, if anything it looks fuller. I will give her a break on her body, but her face and wardrobe are a mess.
Definitely an example of The Emperors New Cloth or How Kan Kanye Use More Beige And More Torn Clothing,
They dress that poor kid in LEATHER and STOCKINGS when it is up to the 90’s in NYC. No wonder she looks miserable.
And Why does Kanye get awaY with using too skinny mostly white models?
Wonder about the skinny models also. Victoria Beckham got slammed for using models that were too skinny.
If the “fashion” people ever stop to wonder why the rest of the world think their are insane this is exhibit A. What about this collection is impressive or worth the cost? How much effort and creativity actually went into to making these clothes. An egomaniac hijacked fashion week, and everyone let him because…I don’t even know. God the fashion world is ridiculous.
I thought the colors were kind of pretty, sort of reminiscent of ballet colors. And North looks adorable. I would wear an oversized sweatshirt and leggings and big socks to stay home and watch a movie in the winter. But I’m 59, and I just bought some rain boots from Talbots, so I’m probably not his target audience.
Is that model smoking?
Yes, which was one of the oddest things to me.
I realize they’re exploring petite sizes in modeling more but his height + the smoking I seriously did a double take thinking they pulled some guy off the street just to get someone to wear it. I know better but sheesh.
I’d wear the hell out of a few of the individual pieces, but……….. I could get them for a fraction of the price at the army surplus store so I’m not really seeing how this is innovative. In fact I think I own some of it already.
In the DM article, someone was quoted as saying, “if you want sand colored army boots or an olive green hoodie look no further!” or something like that. Um, I can get those pretty much wherever. Were they being sarcastic? Add a stop at Walmart for ugly pantyhose and you’ve got the Look for Less!
Ha!
Lol someone called Kanye’s designs Walking Dead chic. That description could not be more accurate.
Please don’t dismiss his work without thinking it through.
Most of the clothes are flesh tones, and they’re a variety of flesh tones. People wear the flesh tones that correspond to them – they don’t interchange and they don’t interact. Even their eyes are covered in most cases: their individual humanity is obscured.
Kanye is making a statement about the persistence of racism in our society, and how we see each other only as skin tones and not as people. It is contemporary, yet futuristic in the sense that we are growing further apart, with our hatred for each other increasing every day.
People stand next to each other in Kanye’s fashion show, but they do not move and they do not touch. That’s our society, folks: we are all together but apart.
Yeah right..
It’ not an art instillation, it’s fashion. Like people are presumably supposed to where this shite right?
he ain’t that deep, Junior.
…yeah I heard the same sort of nouveau explanations for his last collection, they flew with some at the time. This collection being the same as the old collection in different colors is what killed it. If your goal is art then your message and delivery can not be stagnant. Your delivery can not be so one-dimensional.
This is the story of the Emperor Has No Clothes come to life.
Exactly. I was willing to believe the “deeper meaning” the first time, but not the second. Fool me once, and all that. For being such a “genius”, Kanye really has a hard time being original. If the message was what he was going for,
I can think of so many ways he could have achieved that. More contrast to the tones, for example, instead of simply variations on Dusty Pantyhose Beige. That might have made a really stunning visual impact. As it is, there isn’t enough depth to the color differences. Maybe he could have arranged the models better. Or perhaps created a completely different type of clothing from the last collection if he wants to stick to the monochromatic theme. What he did was just so tired and ugly it was like nobody has ever told him “no” in his life and this is what we get for it.
“Nobody has ever told him ‘no’ in his life”.
You just summed up Kantye in one sentence.
I felt better before I read that.
Since the fashion industry is exploiting people left and right, it would be nothing but hypocritical to use a fashion show with the mimicry of expensive, fake torn rags to make a statement about racism and society.
i think you are projecting. its very easy to interpret a whole novel from a single dot. and to sound profound while doing so. when really, its just a dot. besides, didn’t kanye just say that racism is a dated concept? isn’t his thing now, classism? maybe his fashion line is a statement on the different classes in society and how . . . blah . . . blah . .
That may all be true, Junior, but I still don’t think many people are going to want to wear those blah looking clothes. Trying to take your viewpoint, i would say Kanye is not a fashion designer, he is creating a very temporary performance art installation at fashion week.
You correct Chaine. Taken in it’s very best light, its performance art.
….and if it were an art installation, i would appreciate it.
Since he charges hundreds and sometimes a thousand dollars for this craptacular Star Wars jedi wear, I am not entertaining this bs.
People don’t get fashion design.
Some lack depth.
Because fashion is so deep?
And sometimes there is just no depth to get.
Goodness, that’s not even true of his show – there are people of very different skin tones wearing the exact same shade of clothing. Not to mention that the only thing Kayne is interested in in his own grandeur and genius. He doesn’t appear to be thoughtful at all about race relations and lives in a bubble.
There was a decided lack of diversity and ‘flesh tones’ amongst the models themselves… I’m a little surprised there was not more mention made of that. Not an accident or coincidence.
So the symbolism is light skinned flesh tone zombies and their leader? I hated seventh grade literature class.
@Susie 1 of 3: I’ve no idea about any supposed symbolism from his perspective; perhaps you are more generous, and give him far more credit for depth than I ever would.
But in a city filled with diverse models – representing a line from a person who has been vocal about racism in the fashion industry – it was the uniformity of the ‘flesh tone’ that surprised me most. The fact that his clothes look like nonsense did not.
(I’m still so mad that he screwed some deserving, striving designers from their chance to shine that I confess a decided lack of interest in any ‘artistic statement’ or performance he may have had in mind.)
Okay. But I think that’s more appropriate for an art installation. In that case, I could respect it more…but fashion? A collection? Nope.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s all.
Northwest looks exactly like her father. She’s most like inherited her parent’s rebelliousness. How longer before she changes her name to something other than a compass I wonder.
Curious, how are her parents rebellious?
Lol…obviously you don’t know much about Kanye!
Tap dancing for people important to him is enough to know.
Those poor models look like concentration camp survivors – so disturbing. At least those stupid hats hid their faces and no doubt their shame at being part of this fiasco (except Kylie – she was no doubt thinking she was rocking it) Hell even Kendull stayed away from this joke and wasn’t in the big show….Kayne needs to STFD and check his ego – he ain’t all that
Adidas isn’t involved in this collection. Outlets like Complex were carrying the story ahead of his show. Hence the “designer in his own right” tweet. He’s still involved with Adidas as far as footwear is concerned but there doesn’t seem to be any further involvement in an apparel line collaboration.
All shirts have ill-fitting shoulders and too long sleeves. Kim totally must have been his muse.
I’m sorry but all I can think of when I look at these pics of Kim is winter squash. Same color and shape. LOL fugly.
Pls Kim (pregnant or not) hide your shame.
Frankly, most of the stuff I see on a runway looks ridiculous and ill-fitting and nothing like what you would see in an actual store. However, at least it is colorful and creative and doesn’t look like the pile of dirty clothes in the corner of my bedroom.
Hahahahahaha…….thanks for the laugh. I needed that…
Kylie did a runway model for this show. I can’t believe that this fool is getting away with this expensive homeless collection. I have been following these well respected fashion bloggers on instagram and i can’t believe their kissing his behind and calling it genius. And i can’t with Winter anymore. She is a joke.
Notice Kendall did not?
Because she walks shows for REAL Designers.
Kendall is just as bad. Everyone please stop putting her on a pedestal. She just aims for higher end brands due to her team and potential. She’s had plastic surgery as well and if you can’t see that then there’s no hope for you.
She’s just as bad as the rest of the lot.
Why spend thousands to look like a slob
Best comment haha!
And for this garbage Kanye made the models sign a contract saying that if they revealed anything about the collection ahead of time they owed him $10 million? Right. Totally worth it!
He probably hoped for someone to spill the beans because in no way he’s raking up $10 million with that pile of crap.
Answer:
Clothes that would be given to slaves, the homeless, extras on The Walking Dead, your Nana’s nylon collection, citizens from one of the districts in The Hunger Games.
Question:
What do Kanye’s clothes look like?
Can I just say though that this has now become hilarious? Now that the public and the media is calling out how ridiculous his clothes are and refusing to buy into the ‘art’ it’s now a countdown to when some celebrity will be tired of being mocked and be the first to come out and admit they look ugly.
He complains fashion houses wouldn’t let him in the door to listen to him about his design ideas and collaboration.
Hmmm, I wonder why. His delusions of grandeur never fail him. He only has this failure of a line at NYFW because he is famous. Drake must have been laughing so hard inside and trying to keep a straight face.
I will end with something nice. North is so adorable.
That is why there’s a thing called designer/fashion school.
Sick of celebrities putting out clothes & having the gull to say MY line, My designs when all they do is go to some meetings, look at materials, give some input of what they like and oh sell their name while everyone else does the work.It takes months from sketching,to fabrics to setting up to reach this point and Serena will have us believe that while she is touring for tennis around the world, practicing hours on end she had time to put out a show?
We all love fashion to some extant but none pursue it unless we go earn our diplomas,then the rest with money think they are authors, perfumers, actors…..Instead in investing in new up and coming designers who need back up, it is only about them.
Isn’t Antonio Banderas supposedly going to some London design school now? Maybe he will do a better job when it’s his turn…
I was reading the other day that Paris Hilton has made $1 billion on her perfume line. The article was about her launching her latest.
Gee, why don’t all the Kuntrashian/Jenners wear Kunye’s “designs” all the time? Don’t they like his line?
For the same reason the Kuntrashian women don’t wear their own line to advertise it. They know the clothes look cheap, poorly made and tacky beyond hell.
These clothes are so poorly designed, they make even young beautiful bodies look bad.
A lot of hideous designs that nobody will buy or wear again if they made the mistake of buying it in the first place.
This is the new world order where anyone can become a designer without the need to go to fashion school.
I like NW look…i think its cute on her. I wish someone would ask Kanye what he is going for with this look–because i think its more of an artistic statement than fashion statement. And for what its worth, Bowen could have kept her show at the exact same time..I dont think she would have missed anyone that attended his show except for Anna Wintour and that’s probrably a good thing. The overall look was awful..true but there are some pieces in there I think people would buy (at the right price)…the sweatshirts (without holes) ..the shoes..the rest of it, hopefully was more artistic than fashion because from what Im hearing Yeezy Part I is going on sale soon at very high prices (high hundreds to thousands) and um…no.
This man has zero true friends because if he did, he would’ve stopped a long time ago. Just imagine–he’s surrounded by people who tell him his designs are wonderful and that he should keep creating them.
Kim got a lot of flack at the VMA’s for her outfit and people compared her to Danny Devito’s portrayal of the Penguin from one of the Batman movies. This outfit is identical to the one the penguin wears. Hard to feel sorry for someone being mocked when she does it to herself every time. No one would say a word if she would stop thinking she is some special snowflake who has to be sexually appealing 24/7.
I saw the pics from DM, and a few thoughts: North is precious and I don’t think she looks anything like Kim. I cannot believe the amount of makeup on Khloe’s face!!!!!! and I really do think Kendall is the prettiest of them all.
Fear the Walking Yeezy.
Walking condoms, by Yeezy.
Bleached Out and Sucked In: A Yeezy Kollection
I think that I am one lucky ducky that I don’t work in the fashion world because if I did there would be a huge explosion of absolute rage that this guy stole time from actual designers to show the world his sick garbage and his sick view of how women should be dressing. I would scream from the rooftops that KanYe West is a joke and shame every person who attended that sh!tfest except for North West who was forced to attend. And I think it is about time that someone in that business do exactly that. God I want to slap Anna Wintour right across her smug face for bringing this cr@p into the world. When will people call this little foolish man out for his lack of talent and ARTISTRY. Enough.
Pantyhose and leggings with sweatshirts aren’t fashion forward.
Putting “Kanye West” and “fashion designer” right next to each other in a sentence has GOT to be breaking some fundamental natural law. I mean, how much bad taste can possibly ooze out of one person?
“Went down like a lead balloon.”
As it should.
Oliver the musical meets The Newsies. Wth!
I just ran across the GQ Interview with the Weeknd who is wearing the Yeezy Collection. Its actually quite nice.. which prompts me to think the actual shows are more artistic than anything. But those prices..yikes!! Where’s the affordable collection?
Yeezy’s dust-covered “clothes” are making me sneezy.
” She looked like a refugee Humpty Dumpty”
Considering the current migrant crisis in Siria and Africa, the use of the term “refugee” in this article is not appropriate at all.
Yeah I cringed at that too. Not to mention refugees dress wayyyy better than this Yeezy sh*t.
Was here to say the same thing. Incredibly uncouth and frankly disgusting. Please be more mindful when writing articles because I’ve been noticing more and more of these ill-advised/problematic comments and I don’t like it.
All I’m going to say is that I’d love to hear what Tim Gunn had to say about this collection!
I am shocked.
Shocked no one noticed Kim’s stripper heels.
Umm trying to be nice here
Kanye, go to fashion school and learn how to put an outfit together.
You can have a vision but it doesn’t mean that vision looks right.
Many others have put their blood, sweat and tears into their designs…
His clothing looks like….
Fucking pathetic.
Why was Anna Wintour at this show, which wasn’t on the fashion week calendar, instead of the scheduled designer’s show that didn’t reschedule? Isn’t she on their board? Why is she kissing his ass? Also being sure to show attention to Kimmy and baby after being shown ignoring them at his last show.
What’s sad is that there are plenty of legit designers who work their asses off year in and year out to design and create beautiful clothing but will never be anywhere near a NYFW stage of their own, while this joke of a designer gets the red carpet rolled out for him.
Isn’t this the same fashion as the real world bits of The Matrix?
Hmmm … where are the black models in this picture? Oh! Wait! They’re at the back!
Seriously Kanye?
Most of the collection looks like similar versions of what Kim wears all the time, all those nude body hugging dresses, leggins and tops. Now the baggy sweaters and hoodies look like really old and washed a thousand times $10 sweaters that you can buy anywhere. I have a few of those that I wear around the house.
Color has energy. Color can bring that energy in wonderful ways into our daily life. I know because I paint and I love color.
What an oppressively bland and passive collection that is. It seems designed to suck the energy out of whoever wears it and whoever sees it.
I think it’s a lovely commentary on his deeply held beliefs regarding unicorns. The contrast of the shoes, the dainty heels and the heavy boots, speaks to the unicorns dynamic of these beautiful, delicate creatures that are also strong, powerful animals. The heavy layers represent the societal cloaking of imagination and fantasy – casting them off reveals a smudged, but blank slate full of seams and tears. The essence of your true self. Beliefs battered, but not broken.
His position at the front, as the black ‘horn’, indicates he is stabbing fashion in the face with this belief, but because he’s such a special, magical creature, they are blinded by his pure charisma and majesty.
I BELIEVE TOO, KANYE!
Thank you! I hope Junior reads your comment. Both theories of the symbolism in this show of the self proclaimed fashion designer are equally believeable, although I prefer the unicorns.
He and his clothes are hideous. The Emperor has no clothes. I’ll never get why people think he’s talented.
OOOH that’s bad! LOL
Let’s not be so hard on Kanye. His is clearly a Hard Knock Life.
And now we know for sure why Kim keeps wearing this dull monochromatic colored outfits . I can’t believe how anyone would think this color looks good from head to toe it’s unflattering on the models let alone Kim’s fake overinflated body
Is he trying to deconstruct the fashion industry or something? I can’t think of any other reason for this. Is it a Statement?
Btw, I’m insulted (not really) on behalf of all the poor people in the world. Poor people dress WAY better than that. Only rich people have nothing better to do than make themselves look like such fools.
“People at the show were tweeting stuff about how it costs a lot of money to look so poor” Indeed, that is how it appears.
This is what lack of self awareness yields.
Kim does not have the awareness to even use spell-check or google to find out how to spell “Amish” in her public posts, for instance, nor to pay someone to do it for her.
She does not realize that she resembles Miss Piggy’s mother — with her vainly-plied face and disfigured body.
Or that she and her equally untalented unskilled spouse are laughing stocks worldwide.
Will she wear variations of this fug attire day after day like she wears her other tiresome outfits, or will she somehow realize that her spouse’s vision is not all that?
I, for one, will be happy to tell Kanye the word he has never been told in his life: NO.
If only these wastes of space would get themselves some mental health help; they unfortunately have children to be responsible for, not just their own overindulged unchecked egos anymore.
This collection looks identical to yeezy I except for the colour and jackets
Not the most mature response, but they all look like penises
Pfft… I could put together a Yeezy collection for about $100 at my local thrift store. How and why anyone in the fashion world – Anna Wintour especially – panders to this talentless hack is beyond me.
His talent is music, not fashion.
And it is very interesting why people like Wintour support him. She didn’t even like to sit next to his wife Kim. But she did sit there. Anna Wintour did sit next to Kim Kardashian. Why?
Now I remember what his models on the stage remind me of – the Terracotta Warriors, those terracotta statues that were buried with a Chinese emperor to protect him after death. Google for images, compare the coloring and general effect of them all together.
Flesh-tone collection
Looks like the underclothes my 84 year old grandma wears in the winter.
I am loving the comments. I am constantly amazed by what Kim K wears. It is always skintight and she looks like she is bursting out of a sausage skin or shrink-wrap or duct tape. 20 years from now, when she looks at pics of her pregnant self in flesh coloured tights with a big seam in her crotch – will she say ‘aargh what was I thinking?’
How much real time do you think Kanye had to spend to come up with this stuff?
I am not interested in fashion but even I see that the collection is awful.
Why did nobody tell him?
Finally, Kanye isn’t getting a pass for his crappy line on the runway. Ice-T tweeted it looked like future slave gear to him, that the clothes lack heart and soul.
And fashion critic Cathy Horyn gave a review in a review section where she reviewed different designers.
.I loved the whole review, but here’s an excerpt.
“This second round of drab, broken-down basics proved he can’t be taken seriously as a designer, but nevertheless many people in fashion do seem to take West seriously — they keep showing up expectantly for his performances — and that makes them fools. Because they wouldn’t bother with this stuff if it were offered by an unknown, and if it’s the spectacle they seek, it changes as little as the clothes.”
Here’s the full review: “Kanye West is Fooling the Fashion World.”
http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/cathy-horyn-kanye-west-dkny-proenza-michael-kors.html#
Id be worried wearing this crap and getting the shit beat out of me by a cop, for mistaken identity..homeless and mentally ill, resting.
What about the designers who were bumped off because of his theatrics? I want to see their work and compare.
Was it worth it, kinda thing.