Posts Tagged: Kanye West
Understanding What Kanye West Is Doing With DONDA (So Far)
This image represents hunger for the rapper as per usual successful people really lack drive after they have made it
Balenciaga Fall 20 Runway Show
Kanye West In RAF (an outfit resembling Balenciagas idea)
Kanye West seems to be taking fashion into a different musical era because with his last show the rapper/musician make sure that you could see the references from the Balenciaga fall/winter 20 show with a very clear lineage and a very dark theme. The rapper is trying to convey a message that from now on he’s going to be silent.
Balenciaga Fall 20 (Kanye Wore The Jacket on Stage, Which According to Balenciaga Represents “A Bear Killing Tuxedo”)
Balenciaga Fall 20 (A Replica Of DONDA Merch)
John Galliano for Maison Margela made custom Yeezus concert mask to inspire the rapper but now the rapper is taking the idea of Martin Margela (Founder of Maison Margela) into another level as he continues to silence him self until the album is released.
“It kind of seems weird not hearing Kanye talk, Could he be in a sunken place?”
The first event was held and the rapper was wearing all red resembling great power in his messaging of silence ( hence the show really disappointed a lot of fans as Mr West just stood there in silence, played a few tracks without carrying the “KANYE” character (cause of the faceless masked fashion philosophy by Margela)
With the second event the rapper made sure to hire the Balenciaga creative team to stage the show, to stage the room in which he slept and to make sure that the version of a silenced Kanye is now in full mode.
Making sure that you the consumer enjoy the ART his portraying rather than being starstrucked by the rapper.
We are all not sure on what the album is going to sound like but from the images, the construction theory is that it’s going to be an album full of grime and dark-mess focusing on religious philosophies. Some might easily say resembling a “rappers” version of The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga.
Since that is the image the rapper is introducing to us we wonder how long will it last. Now we will wait and wonder where the rapper is taking us next as art is interpreted in so many ways like Kanye is showing us about the Balenciaga Fall 20 show.
YEEZY
Adidas Yeezy is a fashion collaboration between the German sportswear brand Adidas and American designer Kanye West.
The collaboration has become notable for its sneakers, and the Yeezy Boost sneaker line has been considered one of the most influential sneaker brands in the world. While mostly known for its sneakers, the collaboration also produced shirts, jackets, track pants, socks, and women’s shoes.
Kanye West originally designed a shoe for Adidas in 2006, but it was never released. The first brand to officially collaborate with Kanye West was Bape. Together, West and Bape released a pair of Bapesta “College Dropout” shoes, which are now quite rare and garner high resell prices.
He has also designed shoes for Louis Vuitton and Giuseppe Zanotti, and (most notably) Nike. His collaboration with Nike lasted for five years and led to the release of a total of three (two silhouettes, Yeezy 1 and the Yeezy 2) sneaker styles. In 2013, after the release of the “Red October” Air Yeezy 2s, Kanye West officially left Nike. Although West described this break as “heartbreaking”, he claimed that Nike would not pay him royalties for his shoe designs, instead offering to pay some of the proceeds to a charity of West’s choice.
This ultimately led West to reach out to Adidas. Adidas agreed to give him royalties, and West described the CEO of Adidas as “someone who allowed him to build something”. In February 2015, a year and three months after the confirmation of the Adidas and Kanye West collaboration, the collaboration officially debuted. “Yeezy Season 1” was highly anticipated and celebrities such as Rihanna, Diddy, and Kim Kardashian were at the showing. “Yeezy Season 2” and “Yeezy Season 3” also saw notable amounts of success upon their releases. “Yeezy Season 1” was released on October 29th, 2015, and was the first apparel collection to release from this collaboration.
This collection was noted for its stripped-down, ready-to-wear style, which drew on military clothing and flesh-toned colors. The prices ranged from $600 for sweatpants to $3,000 for jackets. Although the footwear sold out quickly, the apparel collection did not. West revealed in a 2018 interview that he was in talks with Louis Vuitton for a $30 million apparel deal. The deal was not approved by the LVMH board and West was left with no clothing partners. After the “Yeezy Season 1” show.
Adidas announced they would no longer be a part of Yeezy apparel, instead focusing on the footwear collection with West. With Yeezy Season 6, Adidas and West re-introduced several articles of clothing with Adidas branding As of December 2017, a total of 19 colourways and 6 designs have been released between the Adidas and Yeezy collaboration. Through a combination of factors including popularization by celebrities, Adidas Yeezy sneakers have come to be extremely influential and highly coveted. Most of the shoes utilize Adidas’s Boost material, noted for being an extremely comfortable material for the wearer’s feet.
On June 27, 2015, the second shoe from the collaboration, the Yeezy Boost 350 was made available through a worldwide release. The shoe was first released in a white and grey “Turtle Dove” colour scheme. On August 22, 2015, an all-black version of the Yeezy Boost 350 released, known as the “Pirate Black.” An olivine variant, the “Moonrock,” was released exclusively to stores who were vendors for the Yeezy Season 1 clothing line. The fourth and final version of Season 1’s 350 Boost was the “Oxford Tan,” which featured a light-brown color scheme. In early 2016, a revised version of the Pirate Black colourway was released. Revisions included additional support and padding to the heel.
However, both iterations are relatively identical in appearance. All variants of the shoe retailed for $200 On August 27, 2016, the Yeezy Boost 350 re-released in infant sizes. The shoe was released in the “Turtle Dove” and “Pirate Black” colour scheme. There have been no further releases or restocks of the sneaker, but the style was later reimagined and reintroduced with the “Yeezy Boost 350 V2”.
On The Cover
Born June 8, 1977 also known as Ye is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago. West first became known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s producing hit singles for recording artists such as Jay-Z, Ludacris and Alicia Keys. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The Collage Dropout in 2004 to widespread critical and commercial success, and founded the record label GOOD Music.
He went on to experiment with a variety of musical genres on subsequent acclaimed studio albums, including Late Registration in 2005, Graduation in 2007, and the polarizing but influential 808’s And Heartbreak in 2008. He released his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010 to further rave reviews, and has since succeeded it with Yeeus in 2013 and The Life Of Pablo in 2016, as well as full-length collaborations with Jay-Z and Kid Cudi West’s musical career has been marked by dramatic changes in styles, incorporating an eclectic range of influences from soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock, synth pop, industrial and gospel.
Over the course of his career, West has been responsible for cultural movements and progressions within mainstream hip-hop and popular music at large.
West’s outspoken views and life outside of music have received significant media attention. He has been a frequent source of controversy for his conduct at award shows on social media, and in other public settings, as well as his comments on the music and fashion industries, U.S politics , and race. His marriage to television personality Kim Kardashian has also been a source of substantial media attention.
As a fashion designer, he has collaborated with Nike, Louis Vuitton, and A.P.C on both clothing and footwear, and have most prominently resulted in the Yeezy collaboration with Adidas beginning in 2013. He is the founder and head of the creative content company DONDA West is among the most critically acclaimed musicians of the 21st century and one of the best selling music artist of all time. He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards making him one of the most awarded artist of all time and the most Grammy-awarded artist of his generation.
Three of his albums have been included and ranked on Rolling Stone’s 2012 update of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list and he ties with Bob Dylan for having topped the annual Pazz and Jaz critic poll the most number of times ever, with four number-one albums each. Times magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 and 2015.
The album features guest vocals by PartyNextDoor, Ty Dolla Sign, Kid Cudi, Jeremiah and 070 Shake, among others. West produced the album in its entirety, with additional production by Mike Dean who serves as a co-executive producer as well as Francis and the Lights, Benny Blanco, Irv Gotti, 7 Aurelius, Noah Goldstein,Che Pope, Caroline Shaw, Pi’erre Bourne and Ty Dolla Sign, among others.
Ye is the second of five seven-track albums produced by West in what have been referred to as the “Wyoming Sessions” and set to be released weekly following the release of Pusha T’s Daytona. The album preceded the release of West’s collaboration with Kid Cudi titled Kids See Ghosts, Nas “Nasir” and Teyanna Taylor’s K.T.S.E The album was supported by the lead single “Yikes”. Ye received generally positive reviews from music critics and became West’s record-equalling eighth consecutive album to debut at number-one on the US Billbroad 200 .
Upon its release, every song on the album managed to enter the top forty on the Billboard Hot 100, with “Yikes” reaching number 8. The album has since been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA). In April 2012 West began dating reality star and long term friend Kim Kardashian they became engaged in October 2013and married May 24th 2014 at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy their private ceremony was subjected to widespread mainstream coverage with West taking issue with couples portrayal in the media. They have three children North”Nori” West born June 2013, Saint West born December 2015 and Chicago West born January 2018 of a surrogate pregnancy.
In April 2015 the West’s travelled Jerusalem to have North baptized in the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Cathedral Of St. James. The couples high profile status and respectively careers have resulted in their relationship becoming subject to heavy media coverage. The New York Times referred to their marriage as “A Historic Blizzard Of Celebrity”. In September 2018 West’s announced they will be permanently moving to Chicago and will establish his Yeezy company headquarters in the city
