Kanye West has lost a major business deal with fashion house Balenciaga.
On Friday WWD reported that Balenciaga had dropped the troubled rapper who has been on a tirade lately calling for death to Jews who have wronged him and also calling President Biden the ‘r’ word.
Meanwhile, his ex wife Kim Kardashian, 42, still models for the French brand.
Parent company Kering said the French fashion house would no longer be working on projects with the rapper and fashion designer who has legally changed his name to Ye.
‘Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,’ Kering told WWD.
He is out: Kanye West has lost a major business deal with fashion house Balenciaga. Seen in 2020
Earlier this month West made his surprise modelling debut at Paris Fashion Week.
The 45-year-old singer opened Balenciaga’s SS23 show, walking down a muddy catwalk.
Demna, creative director of the luxury fashion brand, explained that the mud is ‘a metaphor for digging for truth and being down to earth’.
The Georgian fashion designer explained: ‘Individualism in fashion is downgraded to pseudo trends dictated by a post in stories of some celebrity of the moment… fashion in its best-case scenario should not need a story to be sold to someone… let us let everyone be anyone.’
The ‘Good Morning’ hitmaker wore an oversized jacket, leather trousers, a baseball cap, and his hoodie over the top.
Bye: Parent company Kering said the French fashion house would no longer be working on projects with the rapper. ‘Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,’ Kering told WWD. Seen on ABC
German sportswear giant Adidas on October 7 said it was reconsidering its partnership with West after the US rap star publicly criticized the brand. ‘After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,’ the company said in a statement
Among those in the audience was Kanye’s former sister-in-law Kylie Jenner, while Kanye and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s brood – North, Chicago, Psalm, and Saint West – were seen arriving to the event with their father.
Kanye follows in the footsteps of SKIMS founder Kim, 41, in modelling for Balenciaga.
Earlier this year, the reality star turned heads wrapped in layers of yellow and black tape emblazoned with the Balenciaga name.
German sportswear giant Adidas on October 7 said it was reconsidering its partnership with West after the US rap star publicly criticized the brand. ‘After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,’ the company said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Ye has had trouble with Gap as well.
Muddy: The 45-year-old singer opened Balenciaga’s SS23 show, walking down a muddy catwalk. Demna, creative director of the luxury fashion brand, explained that the mud is ‘a metaphor for digging for truth and being down to earth’
His ex: Meanwhile, his ex wife Kim Kardashian still models for the French brand
He accused Gap of ‘copying’ his work.
The rapper claimed the retailer ripped off ideas from his Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collaboration with their own designs.
He shared a message exchange with an unknown person, in which the texter had sent a link to a photo of a navy T-shirt with the Gap logo on the front along with the message: ‘This is Gap copying — YGEEB.’
Kanye replied: ‘Exactly.
‘Do you want me to post this text message?’
The ‘Stronger’ star used the caption of the post to air another grievance about the company, claiming they had axed a planned photoshoot with his kids without him knowing.
He wrote: ‘But they canceled the photo shoot with my kids in Japan without me knowing. (sic)’
In a separate post, Kanye claimed he had been cut out of meetings by Gap.
He shared a photo of some Yeezy Gap sunglasses and wrote: ‘Gap held a meeting about me without me?’
Making noise: West and Candace Owens attend the The Greatest Lie Ever Sold Premiere Screening on October 12 in Nashville, Tennessee
The ‘Bound 2’ hitmaker also shared a video in which he addressed a group, possibly of Gap staff.
He declared: ‘This is not celebrity marketing. This is not a collaboration. This is a life mission.’
And in a later post, Kanye hit out at both Gap and another of his collaborators, Adidas, for failing to fulfil a promise to build ‘permanent stores’ for their ventures.
Sharing his plan to open independent Yeezy stores around the world, beginning with Atlanta, he wrote: ‘I’ll buy the land and or building.
Then we gonna open up in every state and then internationally.
‘Anyone who has over 10 years retail experience and is ready to change the world post your instagram handle or store location in the comments and we’ll find you.
Post: This comes as David Schwimmer demanded Adidas drop Kanye West for making anti-Semitic remarks
‘I signed with both Adidas and Gap because it contractually stated they would build permanent stores which neither company has done even though I saved both of those companies at the same time.’
This comes as David Schwimmer demanded Adidas drop West for making anti-Semitic remarks.
The Friends actor, 55, shared a video of West, 45, saying: ‘The thing I can say about Adidas is, I can literally say anti-Semitic s**t and they can’t drop me, I can say anti-Semitic things and Adidas can’t drop me. Now what? Now what?
Schwimmer captioned his post: ‘Now what, Adidas?’ before posting ‘Join me and the Anti-Defamation League in demanding Adidas #RunAwayFromHate and sharing a link to a petition from Campaign Against Antisemitism calling for West to be dropped -which has garnered more than 3000 signatures.
Earlier this month Adidas – who launched its collaboration with West’s brand Yeezy in 2015 – put their business partnership with the rapper ‘under review’ following his anti-Semitic tweets in which he vowed to go ‘death con 3 on Jewish people.’
Vile: The Friends actor, 55, shared a video of West, 45, saying: ‘The thing I can say about Adidas is, I can literally say anti-Semitic s**t and they can’t drop me’
Rally: Schwimmer captioned his post: ‘Now what, Adidas?’ before posting ‘Join me and the Anti-Defamation League in demanding Adidas #RunAwayFromHate’
Petition: Schwimmer shared a link to a petition from Campaign Against Antisemitism calling for West to be dropped -which has garnered more than 3000 signature
West’s deal with Adidas is worth $220 million annually and $1.5 billion total, cites Forbes.
The Anti-Defamation League has also written an open letter to Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted and Chair Thomas Rabe urging the brand to drop West.
They wrote ‘In light of Kanye West’s increasingly strident antisemitic remarks over the past few weeks, we were disturbed to learn that Adidas plans to continue to release new products from his Yeezy brand without any seeming acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding his most recent remarks.
‘We urge Adidas to reconsider supporting the Ye product line and to issue a statement making clear that the Adidas company and community has no tolerance whatsoever for antisemitism.’
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Adidas and Kanye West for comment.
Post: Schwimmer has previously called out West over his anti-Semitic posts, taking to Instagram to brand the star a ‘bigot’
Schwimmer has previously called out West over his anti-Semitic posts, taking to Instagram to brand the star a ‘bigot’.
Sharing an image of the word ‘bYE’, Schwimmer wrote: ‘Jews make up only 2.4 per cent of the population of the US but are the victims of more than 60 per cent of all religious hate crimes.
‘Whether or not Kanye West is mentally ill, there’s no question he is a bigot.
‘His hate speech calls for violence against Jews. If you interpret his words any other way and defend him, guess what? You are racist.
‘If we don’t call someone as influential as Kanye out for his divisive, ignorant and anti-semitic words then we are complicit. Silence is complicity.’
Canceled: Kanye promised to ‘go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE’ in a shocking tweet earlier this month
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