Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

[Lalaloves]

Didn't know where to post this.

Kanye West represented his first ready-to-wear collection at Paris fashion week today.
I think he should stick to music.
Thoughts?
http://nowfashion.com/01-10-2011-kan...show-1059.html

[TheRealMH]

Re: Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

Not as amazing as his music

[Mr Xclusive]

Re: Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

not really into Kanye's fashion, some shit he wears is dope tho, but i aint into designer clothes and shit like that, too expensive and most the stuff isnt even appealing, people just wear that stuff for the brand name.


i like Tyga, Breezy and Sean's type of fashion.

[Sakakistan]

Re: Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

lol....yikes

[JoelReal]

Re: Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

He only design women's fashion?

Actually I liked some of them, I thought they were pretty sexy (just not on those anorexic models)

[Lalaloves]

Re: Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

^For now only for women, yes.
The problem I have with this collection is that it's nothing new. I see lots of Balmain (#2), Balenciaga (#1), Alexander Wang (#9, #10, #14, #16, #19, #23), Calvin Klein (#7) and Celine (#3, #6, #15) inspiration.
The fitting is not that good and whoever did the styiling has failed miserably.
BUT we have to take in consideration he never studied fashion design...

[Lalaloves]

Re: Kanye West Spring/Summer 2012

Some reviews:

PARIS, October 1, 2011

By Tim Blanks

Kanye West said he found taking a bow at the end of his first fashion show in front of a few hundred industry professionals much more daunting than encoring in front of thousands, as he usually does. No surprise there. West's genius as a groundbreaking musician is unquestionable, whereas his status in the fashion world has been, until now, that of an ardent-bordering-on-obsessive fan. Which was clear from his genuine delight when Silvia Venturini Fendi and her daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi came backstage to congratulate him after the show.

They were two of a surprising number of designers who turned out for Kanye: The presence of Azzedine Alaïa, Dean and Dan Caten, Olivier Theyskens, Jeremy Scott, and the Olsens sealed this evening's deal as a fashion event. Equally, they underscored the goodwill he had going into this. And Kanye himself was poignantly aware of the challenge. "The biggest hurdle I had to face is the celebrity designer or the hip-hop designer concept," he said backstage. But he had some major help in battling preconceptions. Among the people he bounced ideas off, he name-checked Kim Jones, Louise Goldin, Katie Eary, and Louise Wilson, the guiding light of Central Saint Martins and, by extension, guru of British fashion.

Maybe that's why what Kanye actually offered on the catwalk was such a surprise. He was keen to communicate that, as far as he was concerned, there was a couture level of workmanship in items that had taken three days to complete in the atelier he'd established in London. What we actually saw was something that looked like a baby Balmain vision of womenswear. The context was impeccable—soundtrack and staging exactly what you'd expect from someone whose 360-degree vision has been responsible for some of the best albums and concerts of the past decade. The clothes? Heavy might be the operative word: zippers in excelsis; suede and leather high-performance clothing; beading, crystals, and appliqué weighting jackets and tops. And more fur than you'd want on a night when the mercury hit the roof in Paris. It's kind of a cheap shot to go the trying-too-hard route with someone who is so undoubtedly passionate about what he is doing, but at the same time, it's frustrating that someone who seems to almost effortlessly realize his vaulting musical ambitions comes up short elsewhere, at least on the first attempt. Of course, what Kanye West is trying to achieve is unprecedented. There isn't a fashion designer alive who could match his music. But tonight's show suggests that conquering his new medium is a work in progress.

-style.com

Stick to the day job, Kanye
Kanye West's Paris Fashion Week debut was rap with a capital-C.
BY Lisa Armstrong | 02 October 2011

It was certainly a grand venue, a ravishing neo-classical Lycée opposite the Parthenon on one of Paris's most imposing cobbled squares. Inside the Lycee's library, the book-lined walls were concealed behind temporary white screens and the room frazzled with infra red light. Kanye West's fashion debut was like being subjected to an hour long MRI scan - but not as much fun. Those blanked-out books turned out to be a depressingly apt metaphor for this entire stupendously vacuous enterprise. Even those actresses turned designers, Lindsay Lohan and the Olsen sisters struggled to look engaged.

There has been much breathless speculation in the media in the past few days about who was really designing Kanye West's collection. He was spotted shopping for fabric and zips in London, and he was rumoured to be consulting Louise Wilson, head of St Martin's fashion course (an allegation she furiously denied). In the end rumours settled on young British designer Louise Goldin as a possible collaborator, along with a stylist from Australian Harper's .

Really, though: who cares? If this is the way fashion's going then anyone with any real talent should seriously consider a career in Tesco instead. Because that's a job with dignity. Unlike ghost-designing for a rapper who has the presumption to show "his" very first collection in Paris during prêt-à-porter - supposedly the summit for true creativity in fashion. It was the equivalent of Karl Lagerfeld launching a hip-hop career: i.e. absurd.

To be fair, what West and his ghosts sent out looked well enough made, and all that video-set experience means he knows how to make a model look sexy - no death-head make-up for him. Backstage, he was even tweaking the clothes before the models walked. But Oh dear God, those clothes: does the world really need another slashed bandage dress that requires a woman to go commando and depilate every last centimetre of her body or for that matter another pair of Balmain-esque spray-on shiny jeans? Not sure those fur rucksacks are a major - or even minor - contribution to civilisation either. Why so much fur in a spring collection?

We could endlessly debate the merits of hooker dressing - it comes down to taste in the end. But we can certainly take issue with clothes so tight they reduce a woman's walk to a hobble. Not big, not clever, and not welcome. Afterwards, we asked an Olsen if she'd liked it. "Yes!", she trilled. Any particular look? "Ummm....". Exactly.

-telegraph.co.uk