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Kanye West (ironically with a bottle of water) and wife Kim Kardashian.
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The overarching conclusion drawn from Kanye West’s unveil of Yeezy Season 4 in New York City today had more to do with the fainting models than the collection’s minimalistic comparisons to previous seasons.
West had organised for guests to be picked up, via shuttle buses, from Midtown Manhattan and transferred to Roosevelt Island – the narrow trip of land in between Manhattan and Queens and Long Island. In the 19th century, the island housed several hospitals and a prison, an ironic fact given today’s events.
Yeezy reportedly made fashion’s most respected wait in “holding pens” before models took their position in the same static way as Season 3 in February, where they then remained for two hours in a blistering NYC heatwave, eventually collapsing one by one. Labelled an “abomination” by The Cut’s Stella Bugbee, she then took aim at Adidas who she says “should be ashamed.”
If West and his long-time collaborator and choreographer Vanessa Beecroft thought only casting multiracial models would be the most controversial part of this show, they were indeed wrong. And what a shame given West’s Madison Square Garden shows have been so impressive.
No word from the designer post-show just yet.
Model undone by the heat at Yeezy. pic.twitter.com/vaZlisrMdm
— Vanessa Friedman (@VVFriedman) September 7, 2016
Model passed out in the heat is given water by man in the audience but no one on the #YeezySeason4 team helps.
— Stella Bugbee (@stellabugbee) September 7, 2016
Watching editors leave #YeezySeason4 But I feel obligated to watch out for these models and see what else they have to go through.
— Stella Bugbee (@stellabugbee) September 7, 2016
Is this the show? Waiting until the models collapse one by one? #YeezySeason4 #NYFW Am I complicit? What’s going on! pic.twitter.com/Mm5pi3GVKN
— Robin Givhan (@RobinGivhan) September 7, 2016
Homegirl couldn’t do it anymore. DOGS WERE BARKIN #YeezySeason4 pic.twitter.com/OZXLvhT9I0
— MEFeater Magazine (@mefeater) September 7, 2016
how is she gonna take her shoes like that in the middle of the show #YeezySeason4 pic.twitter.com/CGWbpSjWwG
— erica stark (@biebsushills) September 7, 2016
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
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