West started his fashion career by making a statement with his first Yeezy collection, pairing nude body stockings with simple sportswear.
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“The Roosevelt Island show was something else entirely: an hours-long process that took us to a remote location, to witness what felt like a torture session for a bunch of civilian models, and a bad experience of feeling complicit in enabling the situation”.
“I don’t feel like I’m even in the same business as Kanye West”.
GQ caught Amina Blue, who has participated in other Yeezy shows, ditching her heels mid-runway after limping noticeably. “She is hoping that he will calm down after the fashion show”. Comey knows this. Her spring/summer 2017 collection, which, for the first time in over ten years, included menswear, built upon core Comey staples: variations of the wide-leg, frayed-hem Legion jeans that every fast fashion brand has copied; structural jumpsuits; light trenches; shimmery cocktail dresses. “The long wait before, I believe it was planned because [West] wanted the audience to get into this state of having to observe and having to stay”. She also took a DNA test to see if she was black, and when the results came back negative, she said: “I want to do it again, because when I work with Africans or African-Americans, I feel that I am autobiographical”. To drive that point home, Comey asked her models where they would wear their outfits.
Kylie echoed her big sister’s explanation, saying, “I used to walk but I’ve gotten to a new level and now I get to sit and watch”.
I mean, look at Parker Posey and her dog taking it all in: they want it.
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The Yeezy show has received mixed reviews, with The New York Post calling it “a total disaster” while Billboard couldn’t decide if it was performance art or “a hot mess”.
