Last Thursday, Kanye West did his big Kanye + Adidas show during NYFW. The attendance was star-studded, with Rihanna, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Puffy, Anna Wintour, Alexander Wang and more sitting front row. It was a huge media event too, with tons of photos and coverage. Lens focused on bored-looking celebrities watching Kanye march endless panty-hose inspired looks down the runway. The header photo is a decent glimpse of Kanye’s line – that’s what he “designed.” That his “genius” at work as a designer. So would it shock you to learn that Kanye needed 30 STYLISTS to achieve “the look” for his show?
Kanye West used 30 stylists at his Fashion Week show, according to his friend Russell Simmons.
“I was there the night before,” Simmons told us at Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s Valentine’s Day luncheon at the Plaza. “Kanye had been locked in that studio for 72 hours .?.?. I left, went to Chris Rock’s birthday, came back, he’s still there at 2 a.m. .?.?. He had like 30 French and Italian guys running around, and everything that they did was inspired only by his direction.”
While one critic called Kanye’s show “clothing a homeless person would wear after the apocalypse,” Simmons is a fan.
“His style and influence is so obvious .?.?. I’m old, I’m 57, and I’ve got drop-crotch pants,” he laughed. “There is no reason why his collection, which really is meticulously designed and overseen by him, should not be a big hit .?.?. [I wonder] if [those] who are supposed to be judging understand how much detail, how thoughtful that show was.”
A source close to West would only say of the 30 stylists, “There was a team in place to make sure they were ready for the performance.”
[From Page Six]
Thirty French and Italian men? Ooh la la, Yeezington. I wonder if they were buff gentlemen or Yeezy likes his stylists to be sleek, pale and exclusively European. In any case, I am SHOCKED that it took the work of Kanye and thirty male stylists to create this runway show. Sigh… Poor Kanye.
Last thing… prepare yourselves for a DEMON.
Wolves
A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Feb 15, 2015 at 8:46pm PST
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