“Thank you for anybody that didn’t believe, because they motivated us to break our boundaries. We don’t know what the reviews will be, we don’t know what they will say, but I got a chance to go to Italy and feel those fabrics. I begged Louis Vuitton to let me do more shoes after my shoes sold out in two weeks, and they did not. I begged Nike, I begged this company to let me do it. And I took out motherf---ing loans to get the best models, to get the best designers, to get the best venue. I gave you everything that I had.
“This is my first collection. Please be easy. Please give me a chance to grow. This is not some celebrity s---. I don’t f--- with celebrities. I f--- with the creatives in this room, the amazing people who spend every day of their life trying to make the world a more beautiful place.
“The amount of people that tried to get me a celebrity f---ing deal. They said, ‘You need to do boot-cut jeans, or you won’t sell.’ Shut the f--- up ! Or Hedi Slimane in the motherf---ing Mercer, sitting with me, saying, ‘Stop giving them your ideas, Kanye. Do your own thing.’ Hedi Slimane! To feel so frustrated. And I thank anybody who came to this party, everybody who supported, everybody who believed, because people thought it was a joke, and maybe people still do, but I can only grow from this point."
HERE ARE SOME FASHION PPL REMARKS AND FIRE AT YE'S COLLECTION
HERE ARE SOME FASHION PPL REMARKS AND FIRE AT YE'S COLLECTION
-At that dinner in Azzedine Alaia’s kitchen, Kanye told everyone he “meant for those sausage-casing dresses, the sagging trousers and the swimming jackets dripping with sparkles and strips of fuzzy bits to fit the way that they did.”
-Kanye cornered Joe Zee to complain that he didn’t really care for all the criticism he was getting about showing fur in the spring. Zee’s response to this diatribe? “All I said was congratulations. I wasn’t even there.”
-Wilson thinks Kanye is pretty clueless about the fashion industry’s perception of him, demonstrating “very little understanding of how he might actually be perceived by retailers and editors who have a vast amount of experience at detecting utter nonsense.” OUCH. Apparently the swagger that is so necessary for a rapper doesn’t really work in fashion. While fashion designers definitely have egos, I think this industry likes you to at least seem humble.
-Our contributor Long Nguyen, who was at the show, said, “I feel bad, actually, that there wasn’t anything to grab on to. But you can’t just dump some fox fur on a runway and call it luxury.”
-Carine Roitfeld was a little more gentle, saying, “I’m sure he knows what he did wrong and what he did right. He tried hard, and he wants to learn.”
-The best quote of them all, which says so little yet speaks volumes in its brevity? Anna Wintour said, “Ask someone else.”
