8 French Brands That Kanye West Should Collaborate With

We went ahead and imagined what these would look like.

June 24, 2013

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Some scintillating news broke today that Kanye West may be collaborating with the French brand A.P.C. In an interview with W Magazine, the article mentioned the rapper's "new men’s capsule collection of jeans, T-shirts, and hoodies for a hip French brand, to be unveiled in July." It's still a stretch at this point, but the best educated guess one can make is that Kanye would be teaming up with his friend Jean Touitou, the founder and designer of A.P.C. Obviously, everything is still at the rumor stage, but it's impossible not to wonder how Kanye would infuse his personal sense of style into the minimalist and simple A.P.C.

Then we got to wondering what a Kanye collaboration would look like with other notable French brands. The Yeezus MC could definitely inject his newly pared down sense of style and ego into eight dope brands that are already going strong. We already came up with how Kanye would re-interpret the brand's signature pieces, so you're welcome, Yeezy. Now just sign on the dotted line, and partner up with 8 French Brands That Kanye West Should Collaborate With.

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Kanye West x Kitsune Tee

Potential piece: Kanye and Kitsune Tee could make a T-shirt that plays on the brand's well-known "Parisien" cursive piece. It could say "Parisien-ass Restaurant" or "Croissant."

Kanye West x Etudes

Potential pieces: Kanye and Etudes could make a T-shirt or hoodie with the dope Etudes crayon-drawing like print, but use the cover art from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy instead.

Kanye West x Saint James

Potential Piece: Kanye and Saint James could partner up to create a striped shirt that has stripes composed of Kanye lyrics. Wearable art?

Kanye West x Kenzo

Potential piece: Kanye and Kenzo could remix the super popular Kenzo x New Era caps, and put "KANYE" on the cap over the label's wild print.

Kanye West x Pigalle

Potential piece: Kanye and Pigalle could re-work the box logo T-shirts that the Paris brand is well-known for, and use "NOT FOR SALE" instead.

Kanye West x Saint Laurent Paris

Potential piece: Kanye and Saint Laurent Paris could team up to create a full-zip leather hoodie that's inspired by the label's classic motorcycle jacket. Bonus: zipping the leather piece all the way up gives you instant bondage wear.