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For a long time, Kanye West had made his best effort to avoid speaking to the press because he was tired of his words getting misconstrued. But lately, he’s been quite vocal, letting us back into the mind of Kanye. In a recent interview with T Magazine, Kanye opened up about his future plans for the fashion world. Here are a few excerpts:
On the impact of his latest fashion endeavors: “It’s literally like… I know this is really harsh, but it’s like Before Yeezy and After Yeezy,” West said. “This is the new Rome!”
On wanting to make his apparel more accessible: “Before the Internet, music was really expensive. People would use a rack of CDs to show class, to show they had made it,” West said at one point. “Right now, people use clothes to telegraph that. I want to destroy that. The very thing that supposedly made me special—the jacket that no one could get, the direct communications with the designers—I want to give that to the world.”
On wanting his own store: “I dreamed, since I was a little kid, of having my own store where I could curate every shoe, sweatshirt and color,” he said. “I have sketches of it. I cried over the idea of having my own store.”
On self-realizations: “I have this table in my new house,” West said, offering a parable. “They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.”
On criticism about his new collection: “I would like to be influenced as much as possible,” he said. “I don’t care if you can see the influence in something, as long as I made it better.”
On the photo of Ralph Lauren touching Kanye’s face: “Do you know what he said when he did that? ‘This is my son,'” West said. “And I was thinking, ‘I knew it! I knew Ralph was my daddy!'”
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