has publicly spoken up in defense of journalist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson after hit out at the Vogue editor for her commentary on his Paris Fashion Week Yeezy show, which featured widely condemned “White Lives Matter” T-shirts.Taking to her Instagram Stories after the show, Karefa-Johnson shared a text conversation with a friend as she unpacked her reaction to West's runway choices.Initially she wrote that she was “fuming” and described the show as “indefensible” before saying that she felt West's vision was misguided.“He was trying to illustrate a dystopian world in the future when whiteness might become extinct or at least would be in enough danger to demand defense,” she said in the screen shots. “But the danger is that, this very premise, the idea that white supremacy is in danger of extinction…is what justifies mass incarceration, murder en masse, indeed even the advent of slavery.”“I guess I get what he was trying to do...
he was trying to be a duchampian. It wasn't. It didn't land and it was deeply offensive, violent and dangerous,” she wrote.Later she described the T-shirts as “pure violence”: “There is no excuse, there is no art here….
I do think if you asked Kanye, he'd say there was art, and revolution, and all of the things in that t-shirt.”West responded by sharing a screen shot of Karefa-Johnson’s Instagram account as well as pictures of the editor, appearing to criticize her appearance.
He also shared screen shots of messages from who is thought to be his design director, Mowalola Ogunlesi, who advised him: “I also don't think u should insult that writer.
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