Reviews of the Kanye West x Adidas Yeezy show #yikes #quotes
“The 5 Things That Worked About Kanye’s Fashion Show (The Clothes Weren’t One Of Them)’ refinery29.com
“ Around 4:40 p.m. a baby started crying. “That’s baby speak for ‘Daddy, what the f–k?,’” said one editor, interpreting the whimpers of little North West, who eventually had to be taken backstage midshow by her mother and grandmother”. WWD
“Kanye West Hasn’t Graduated Fashion School Yet” Cathy Horyn in the nymag.com
“I relate the generally positive response it produced to Stockholm syndrome, a creeping problem in the fashion world, don’t you think? There was very little criticism of West’s vacant presentation”. nymag.com
“He may want “to create something better” for us, as if we hadn’t a clue already, but it will take a lot more than words “Cathy Horyn
“A camo parka that Kim Kardashian also wore was a highlight. But overall? Meh. refinery29.com
“That Grammys ceremony said it all: the strongest musical performances of the night undermined by the assholery that would deny another artist his well-deserved moment in the spotlight. West’s collaboration with Adidas launched tonight in a similar storm of conflicted emotion” Tim Blanks at style.com
“Sweatpants and music aren’t such a bad legacy”. WWD #ouch
“His obnoxiousness is tolerated in music because he’s extraordinarily talented and he’s proven that…But to come into another [field] where he is still so clearly at the beginning of a learning curve, and to display that same level of cockiness, who wouldn’t be put off by that?” Pulitzer prize winning fashion journalist Robyn Givhan
“I think he’s fine as a rapper. I think he’s a joke as a fashion designer. I just think that you should stay focused at what you’re good at. Just because you’re a good rapper doesn’t mean you’re going to be a good fashion designer” Kelly Cutrone.
“ You know those photos that you see with me getting on my knees in front of the paparazzi to fix Kim’s pant leg? That’s what I want to do for the world. I want to get on my knees and fix everyone’s pant leg, if they’ll have me. If they’ll have me make that adjustment.” Kanye. #onyourkneesbegging
“There is a series of people who write just negative comments,” They want to joke around and say, ‘Why is he still trying?’” Kanye said on a recording of a philosophical soliloquy that opened the show. #yep WHY??? WHY?
