Kanye West has one of the most interesting personalities in the entertainment industry. The musician is often considered to be one of the greatest and most influential names in hip hop. The 45-year-old rapper has also successfully transitioned into a fashion designer.
His brand, Yeezy which is a collaboration with Adidas, is widely popular. But West has been receiving criticism lately for a reason. Netizens have slammed him for selling the GAP collection in trash bags. It felt as if Kanye wanted to create an aesthetic look out of poverty and homelessness.
Read More: Kanye West Says No To Rolling Loud Miami Festival Days Before Performance
Kanye West Slammed For Selling GAP Collection In Garbage Bags
The rapper turned fashion designer is getting a lot of heat for his marketing techniques. His latest clothing collection, Yeezy’s GAP in trash bags.
According to Page Six, the recent clothing line is being sold in large black garbage bags on the floor of a Gap store. People quickly started pointing it out on their social media.
A user from New York shared a picture on Twitter and wrote, “This is how they are selling Yeezy GAP“.
This is how they are selling Yeezy GAP. The sales associate said Ye got mad when he saw they had it on hangers and this is how he wanted it. They won’t help you find ur size too, you just have to just dig through everything pic.twitter.com/GNd08Zv1zC
— little miss (@owen__lang) August 15, 2022
The person elaborated on his experience, “The sales associate said Ye got mad when he saw they had [the clothes] on hangers and this is how he wanted it. They won’t help you find ur size too, you just have to just dig through everything.”
Another user slammed Kanye for using homeless people as a fashion muse. They tweeted, “Balenciaga & Kanye’s fetish with the homeless as “fashion muses” it’s everything that is wrong with billionaires…they no longer see the plight of people, they don’t see humans that are suffering, they see opportunities to be “edgy” and profit from it…it’s disgusting.”
Balenciaga & Kanye’s fetish with the homeless as “fashion muses” it’s everything that is wrong with billionaires…they no longer see the plight of people, they don’t see humans that are suffering, they see opportunities to be “edgy” and profit from it…it’s disgusting
— 🌚GrushenkaH🌝 (@GrushenkaH) August 16, 2022
Earlier, the “Jesus Walks” rapper had said that his “biggest inspiration for all design” was “the homeless.”
John Legend And West Are No Longer Friends Because Of Donald Trump
Kanye West has lost out on a lot of friends because of his strange behavior lately and his political opinions. One of the friends he lost is John Legend.
John talked about his fallout with West recently and said, “[Kanye and I] aren’t friends as much as we used to be. I honestly think because we publicly disagreed on his running for office, his supporting Trump, I think it became too much for us to sustain our friendship, honestly.”
He talked about Kanye’s failed Presidential run in 2020 and mentioned, “I wasn’t alone in that, but, you know, he was not happy about that. And we really haven’t been close since then.”
Kanye and John were friends since the early 2000s when Kanye was one of the producers on Legend’s 2004 debut album ‘Get Lifted.’
Read More: Kim Kardashian Does Something Special For Ex Kanye West After Break-Up With Pete Davidson
