Kanye X Addias Originals

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>>9547374

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February 12, 2015

Kanye West is probably the most polarizing personality in popular culture at the moment. That Grammys ceremony said it all: the strongest musical performances of the night undermined by the assholery that would deny another artist his well-deserved moment in the spotlight. West's collaboration with Adidas launched tonight in a similar storm of conflicted emotion. "I'm here to crack the pavement," his fierce voice-over announced. "I want to create something better for you." But a show that started this willfully late in a schedule as dense as New York's spoke to a certain insensitivity. Was it perfectionism? Or was it simply the event-oriented consciousness of a musician who would scarcely stage a concert with the understanding that his audience has another performance to attend in an hour? That's an ongoing situation with West. Ardent fans will always find a reason to cut him slack. Genius has its reasons.

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Still, transplant that genius into a context where its muscles are called on to flex in a more conventional way and different criteria come into play. When West sets himself up to be judged as a designer, he becomes a more familiar, more ordinary creature. It took 18 months to make this collection of sportswear happen. He staged it with the Italian performance artist Vanessa Beecroft, whose ability to strip back everything to its purest form was something he related to. There were certainly enough flesh-toned body stockings to convey the notion of the pared-back-to-nothingness that is a Beecroft trademark. And for the show, 50 models of all shapes and sizes advanced in the serried military ranks that are another Beecroft signature in time to the sonorous electronic chords that are a staple of West's latest sound.

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fuck kanye's new shoes, I'm copping juun. j x adidas shoes.

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That military aspect was key. West said the collection had come together in the shadow of the London riots, but they were a good few years ago, so maybe it was more an echo of those events that sparked the dystopian subtext of his collection. In a curious way, it did connect with the pessimistic tone of the men's collections we just saw in London—all of it, from the distressed knits to the backpacks to the conspicuous exhaustion of some of the models (do you think they were told to yawn?), suggesting a ragtag army on its rims. The mix of savagery and sweetness in West's recent musical output means it's tempting to assume there is some kind of internal conflict raging in him. That would certainly account for his provocative public persona. It was that suggestion of conflict that gave some spine to this collaboration with Adidas: a protective toughness, a body-conscious severity that made the clothes more than a simple accessory to the footwear that was the predictable focus of the whole event. Even so, it will be the Yeezy Boosts that snare the spotlight. Justin Bieber was backstage in a flash, laying claim to a pair.

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>>9547400
to be fair, I'm not the biggest fan of the yeezy boosts, but I also don't wear kicks.

is there anything that isnt oversized

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Before the fluorescent lights pulsed for the first time, before the lone horn metronome led the model formation in lockstep, before the voice of Kanye declared, “I want people to feel like awesome is possible,” before a new song with Sia and Vic Mensa blasted through the speakers, and before young North started crying from it all, the inaugural show for Kanye West’s collaboration with Adidas, Yeezy Season 1, was already the talk of Fashion Week. The chatter surrounding West in the past week, about his new Yeezy Boosts, and his wife, and his baby, and his faux-bumrush on Beck, and his union of Paul McCartney and Rihanna, was so constant that he wouldn’t have had to put on much of a show at all and it still would have dominated discussion. But of course, he did put on a show, and somewhat surprisingly, the clothing was as memorable as the surrounding mayhem.

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Anyone who had even casually followed Kanye, Kim, and North for the past year will have had a general idea of his desired aesthetic, but it was always going to be Kanye’s and Adidas’s ability to fulfill these desires that would be decisive. For its part, the German sportswear juggernaut has conceded identifiable branding almost entirely (no stripes, no logos, not even in the abstract, as Adidas has previously asked of its other high-profile collaborators) and apparently given Kanye the latitude that he could not find elsewhere. These pieces are militaristic staples, from body-conscious undergarments to camo M-65 jackets dropped to the knee to crop tops made from recycled Adidas socks. Hems were raw and frayed, tops billowy, bottoms either skintight to slide into newly unveiled suede stiletto boots or cinched and ready to be tucked into aforementioned Boosts. There were immaculate flak vests and officer sweaters that looked like they’ve actually taken shrapnel, and everything was said to be unisex.

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It all created a sense that Kanye is outfitting some kind of ground force for the muted and dusty-hued future: The color palette is reminiscent of military uniforms past and present, while the nylon MA-2 bombers were presented on buzz-cut models, men and women, wearing brand new Adidas commando boots. With Kanye, anything is possible, and it was only 20 months ago that he released Yeezus, an album of similar provocation. All of this may be made moot when people pick and choose individual pieces, but on display, in rigid lines of expressionless youth, it was at the very least satisfyingly instigative for a line of sportswear.

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yeezy and co talking to ALT
http://www.vogue.com/10683183/kanye-west-adidas-collaboration-fall-2015-collection-yeezy-boosts/

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>>9547417
this?

>>9547467
fuck this guys such a hack
also
>people on the internet still think the gayfish joke is funny
some people i swear to god

They look like fucking muppets. There is no message here, no betterment. Just looking as absolutely fucking stupid as you possibly can achieve, all dressed in muted dystopian garb.

Genius? I cannot understand the stupidity therefore it must be genius!

>>9547374
Nigger Kanye. Nice fashion sense nigger. Tennis shoes and a hoodie. Ghetto rat with money.

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>>9547477
people on the internet are stupid, and kanye is really a designer aggregator.

he's probably intentionally trying to duplicate pieces he likes at a lower price point to make them weidely available.
even though the addidas collab isn't all that cheap.

*clink* *clink* *clink*
>WARRIORS!! COME TO EFFFAAAAAYAAAYY!

Are these auditions for the new Mad Max movie?

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the level of ignorance on /fa/ lately is almost surprising.
oh well
I kind of thought alot of you would have watched the show, but I guess I was expecting too much

>>9547493
the whole "lower price point" thing didn't end up happening, allegedly

Hoodies/sweatshirts €390
Knitwear €800 - €1,500
Outerwear €1,600 - €3,500

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>>9547514
>watching this shit

>>9547514
it was talked about a lot when it was first shown, there just aren't threads dedicated to it anymore

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>>9547521
right...it didn't happen at all, although one could argue that those prices are less than the designers where these styles..."originated"

>>9547525
>fashion board
>not knowing jackshit about fashion
>not following fashion week
>not watching fashion shows
>not watching the MOST entrylevel celebrity designer show

>>9547507
What a qt.

>>9547521
Yeah those prices kinda disappoint me tbh. Hopefully it'll get better with time.

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>>9547529
well, yeah I remember that, but the number of people shitposting makes it seem like those threads were a giant echo chamber.
I'll come through every season, every other season, and post collections, and the response is always muted, or the thread ends up filled with obvious idiots.
>>9547532
supposedly he working to get them lower, as he implies H&M and Zara are the "goal", price wise

post the leaked lookbook pls

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>>9547546
anon, you should find it and post it.

>>9547530
>although one could argue that those prices are less than the designers where these styles..."originated"
No. You can literally buy the genuine article, archival Raf, Helmut, Margiela, for cheaper than the Adidas collab.

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>>9547546
http://four-pins.com/style/adidas-kane-west-adidas-yeezy-season-1-lookbook/?utm_source=www.complex.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Trending+Widget+graph+Complex+node1

>>9547530
>>9547522
>>9547530
this atsy farsty skin suit shit is the worst excusefor not designing a whole outfit ever

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http://four-pins.com/style/leaked-kanye-adidas-yeezy-season-1-pricing-high-snobiety/
>Clothing:
>Entry-level pieces, like hoodies and sweatshirts: $430
>Knits and sweaters: $880 up to $1650
>Outerwear: $1750 up to $3800+
>Yeezy Duck Boot: $495
>Yeezy 350 Boost Low: $209

>Accessories:
>Canvas backpack: $495
>Leather backpack: $715
>Leather bag: $880
fffffffffffffuck

>>9547560
yeah, you're right.
thats a shame.

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>>9547563
i'd have to agree.
but I can understand wanting to just highlight the backpack

hahahahAHAHAHAHHAH

Why are the models so ugly? I mean, like seriously ugly

>>9547589
not to mention the requirement was to be a manlet

>>9547589
predominantly black and mixed + selected by a manchild

btw guys idk if you got the memo but kanye shit west threads are no longer allowed on /fa/ ;(((((((((

>>9547589
he's trying to play against type.

>>9547530
>>fashion board
>>not knowing jackshit about fashion
>>not following fashion week
>>not watching fashion shows
>>not watching the MOST entrylevel celebrity designer show

behold the intelligence of the kanye west fan ladies and gentlemen, marvel at his earth shattering genius, grovel before his minds terrible power.

>>9547612
and you're an authority on fashion?
because you shitpost?
please get banned again.

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>>9547596
R

>>9547622
>and you're an authority on fashion?
yeah

black manlets not welcome

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>>9547376

>>9547596
This is actually the ONLY thing I like about Kanye's collection. Being a manlet, I find it hard to find sizes that fit me without it being too long.

>>9547567
I'm going to wait till most of this hits Marshalls TJ Maxx

>>9547695
given the amount of people willing to buy third hand yeezys for 2k i'm pretty sure nothing here is going to make it to sales

>>9547700
People buy the shoes cause its obviously yeezys. People are not going to buy a plain oversized cropped black hoodie for $480

>>9547734
given the amount of buzz around the collection i'd like to disagree, we'll see though. only piece i'd actually like to pick up is the undistressed military sweater in >>9547389 but you could buy something so much nicer for the price.

I want the boots so bad...
The adidas boots not the yeezys
except maybe the lows
They might be a reason to buy joggers.
who /adidasfinallydidsomethinguseful/ here?

Looks like shit

>"Let me pay through the fucking nose for lower quality milsurp because it has Kanyes name on it!"

You could buy milsurp, custom tailor it, and it would cost a quarter of how much a single shitty piece here costs. Would last longer, too.

Basically very not worth it.

>>9547700

yeezys are meme shoes though

Completely different from a bunch of ugly and way oversized shit that is a copy of another clothing line

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>clothes look cheap/plain as fuck, especially the vests

can't wait to buy some chinese fakes
they can't fuck these up

>>9547870
>implying they wont find a way

>>9547875
>lead based wool/nylon

they'll get it right eventually and I'll be there to buy

>>9547480
this is my fetish