Multiple designers are accusing Kanye West and Yeezy of “borrowing” their ideas
thefader.comEarlier this week Kanye West launched his Season 9 show at Paris Fashion Week. The runway show was notable for Ye's decision to wear a T-shirt with the phrase "White Lives Matter" emblazoned on the back.
He later doubled down on his his support of the message, deemed hate speech by anti-hate organization ADL, as well as mocking an editor at Vogue who had criticized him.
The fashion world has since begun to turn on Ye, with model Gigi Hadid calling him a "joke" and Supreme's creative director Tremaine Emory branding him an "insecure narcissist." It seems it is not just those at the top of the industry that are speaking out.
In a new report from Rolling Stone, a raft of young designers have suggested that the Yeezy brand is guilty of "borrowing" or taking undue influence in their work and neither crediting nor paying them for it.
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