All the Fashion Talk From Kanye West's New Charlamagne tha God Interview

"Some people have to do things just to prove that they can be done, whether they become the billionaire on the other side of it. Obama went into that office as a public servant in a service position. It didn't matter the amount of money or ownership. The world needed to see that this is a possibility. For Virgil, it's like, the world just needs to see things."

"OFF-WHITE has five, 10 stores. Louis Vuitton has 2,000 stores. It's like taking the job as the president. Trump, you see Trump's name on all types of buildings, but he still took the job as president."

"The breakthrough with Virgil is now we have someone who's come from Donda, who's come from the school of Kanye West."

"You know, I met with Hermès maybe a year and a half prior to that. I met with Bernard Arnault. We had a deal on the table that we shook on. I did some performances at the museum. Then, three months later, the deal got dropped at the board. That set me back in apparel a bit when that happened because in order for me to even negotiate the deal—this is after I did Season 1 with Adidas—I had to go to Adidas and say, 'I know we have the best fashion show,' all this, 'but Louis Vuitton is gonna back Yeezy and the Kanye West company and these guys are masters of clothes so I need you to indemnify the clothes.' I got paperwork on it."

"I'd done a fashion show and I was 45 minutes late and they LeBron'd me, bro. Like when LeBron went to Miami and they just killed him and they burned his jersey and all that. I'd just done MSG—Young Thug on stage and go and plug in an iPhone with 16,000 people. Everybody in the audience—whoever you wanna name—streaming live, all this, a breakthrough.  As soon as I was 45 minutes late, I felt it was the fashion community getting the right to say n***** without saying it. To be like, 'Yo we know you're stepping on necks and all that and what you do in your approach, but if you get out of line boy, we gon' roast you. it affected me because I'm an artist. and it affected me emotionally. It's all these things was almost set up to put me on meds, to break me down..."

"The reason why we went into fashion, wasn't to stay there or be there or just do cool high priced stuff, It was actually to take the incredible HSP [highly sensitive people] that usually end up in a fashion house, and bring them to some place where they can consistently connect with the public. Yeezy will eventually be closer to like a relief company—if there's a disaster, we're gonna dress, we're gonna bring clothes and water."

"The same design perspective that can sell a $300 T-shirt, we're just gonna give it. You'll look up, five, 10 years from now, and Yeezy will be the biggest service provider of apparel."

"One by one, every year, we're gonna take one, two, three, 10 people who would've normally ended up in a fashion house, would've went to other places, and we're going to Calabasas, we're building factories."

"You have like, you know, this conversation about a creative director role for me at Adidas, it's like, 'OK, I got my brand, it's this billion-dollar brand, this unicorn company that's growing.' But, to be able to go and be able to direct Adidas in all those stores, it's another conversation. I'd be open to the conversation to taking a job like that."

"We interned at Fendi but we ain't do shit, bruh. We ain't get to do nothin'. I was just happy to have a key card."

"I am in too good of a position to take a job where I have to be away from my wife, and my son, and my daughters. That just makes no sense. Family is your most important currency."