Kanye West Has His Own Plan For Fashion’s Future
The rest of the fashion world may be talking about “a clear call for change” (in the words of the Boston Consulting Group study commissioned by the Council of Fashion Designers of America) and the “danger of designer creative burnout” and the need to slow things down (after a month of shows, doesn’t less seem like more?) and so on and so forth. But that industry disrupter/tweet stormer/creative megalith otherwise known as Kanye West has a different idea about how the future of fashion, or at least his fashion future, may look. Over the weekend, he took to Twitter, as is his wont, to reveal his plan: “No more fashion calendar… I’m going Mad Max… 6 collections a year…3 albums a year,” he wrote. Six collections! It’s not entirely clear how that might look, since Mr. West’s thoughts then took a different direction, but chances are that there will probably be “homeless sweaters” involved. Read more at The New York Times.
