Date: Saturday, Oct 1st
Event: Paris Fashion Week 2011Venue: Lycée Henri IV
Picture the scene as Vogue Editor Anna Wintour, Alexander Wang, the Olsen twins, Sylvia Fendi, Jeremy Scott, Lindsey Lohan, and many others sit awaiting a fashion show from a music mogul, the most unlikely of hosts. This man has become a fixture on the front row of runway shows from Milan to New York. He has flirted with internships at multiple major European fashion houses including Louis Vuitton. He almost launched his very own fashion line Pastelle in 2006, 2007, 2008 and again in 2009, but this never came to fruition. We've seen his MBDTF scarves via M/M Paris, watches with his own image rendered in diamonds from Tiret, and Air Yeezy's he's designed with Nike. He raps a lot about designing clothes, but until recently we have not been privy.
After years of buildup, Kanye West finally put his money where his mouth was. All the built up anticipation was released Saturday night. Shown before a tightly controlled crowd, the collection turned out to be neither triumph nor a train wreck, an effort expected of a freshman designer and perhaps more impressive than your typical celebrity showing.
West's take was that on high-end women's streetwear, anchored in cleavage, leathers, fur, and sporty details. A large portion of the collection was inspired from guidance of experienced designers whom West admires including designer Louise Goldin and Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci, whom were in attendance. West said his design process was a team effort. “Every designer works with a team, it’s just different for me because I’m a celebrity. I’ve learned so much even in one day.”
I have included some of my favorite looks below:
The After Party
Lindsey Lohan, taking time away from running amuck in Los Angeles, was among a raucous crowd — including Dean and Dan Caten, Bar Refaeli, Leigh Lezark, Ellen von Unwerth, Karlie Kloss, Anja Rubik and Jared Leto — who gathered at the party West threw for himself at Paris night spot Club Silencio. During the party, West grabbed a microphone and launched into a stream-of-consciousness, obscenity-laced tirade. After thanking his team and industry figures including Scott and Olivier, he laid into his skeptics.
“Thank you for anybody that didn’t believe, because they motivated us to break our boundaries,” he said.
“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,” he concluded.
And with that, his DJ segued into Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.”
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