Luxury brand Balenciaga Cut Ties With Kanye West. The brand’s parent company officially confirmed saying that there are no planned future projects with West. The decision comes after Ye has been on a controversial run this month, displaying a ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirt during his YZY fashion show held during Paris Fashion Week.
The shirts have since been passed out to the homeless in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Following the runway show, the Donda 2 artist has made anti-Semitic remarks on social media, and talk shows including Drink Champs, Tucker Carlson Tonight and LeBron James’ The Shop
Balenciaga had removed the official Vogue Runway photo of the 45-year-old strutting down the very muddy runway as he made his modelling debut at the most recent Paris Fashion Week.
Products from West’s Yeezy Gap Engineered By Balenciaga collection were removed from the company’s website, as well as the pages of other retailers where they were previously sold. These two things together lead many to believe that the partnership between the two industry behemoths had wrapped up following the father of four’s most recent anti-Semitic comments.
The Hip-Hop music mogul has a years-long history with Balenciaga. Most recently, he collaborated with the fashion house for their Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga line, which launched in February in conjunction with the rapper’s Donda 2 listening event in Miami.