Kanye West Paris Fashion Week 2009
On january 26 of 2009 a photo by tommy ton posted on jak jill of kanye west and his crew at said showcase caused a stir on the internet when social media as we know it was still in its infancy and the idea of hip hop hanging with high fashion forced more clowning than congrats.
Kanye west paris fashion week 2009. Supermodels designers stylists and others came to join. The rapper is notoriously known for abiding by his own rules when it comes to fashion week. It was kanye west s sunday service. It almost looks like he s on a nouvelle vague film.
Kanye west returns to paris fashion week with yeezy season 8 a choir of car horns a special guest appearance by north and oh yeah clothes. Leave it to kanye west to present a surprise fashion show on the last days of paris fashion week. It was a big morning. In 2009 a pre maga kanye west attended paris fashion week with close friends and collaborators virgil abloh don c taz arnold chris julian and fonzworth bentley.
Kanye west and his sunday service choir got paris fashion week to focus on something other than fashion for 90 minutes. Kanye west may have parachuted into paris fashion week when he sent out surprise invitations on saturday to his showing of yeezy season 8 but at monday s presentation for the artist s label his. The musician and designer held a sunday service during paris fashion week introducing the fashion crowd to his religious sermons. It s 2009 and kanye west is sitting in an opulent hotel room with a luxe persian rug beneath him and rich sepia tones lending to the ambience.
In paris kanye west was the welcome disruption fashion week needed once dismissed as a poseur the french don t have much patience for men with delusions of grandeur west may have finally.