Kanye Announces Last-Minute Yeezy Season 2 Runway Show, And Other Designers Are Pissed
This weekend, Kanye West announced a Yeezy Season 2 collection runway show as a last-minute addition to New York Fashion Week. The presentation is scheduled for this Wednesday at noon, and other designers aren’t so happy about the short notice. As Women’s Wear Daily reports, designer Anne Bowen was planning to launch her new streetwear collection Nomad VII at the same time, and now she’s scrambling to reschedule her show for Thursday. “We have been prepping for a year for this at considerable financial, labor- and commitment-cost to our company. Our show date has been scheduled for months and has been on the Fashion Calendar for weeks. We went through all the proper channels to make this a reality. And just yesterday we learned that Kanye West is having a show at the same time on the same date as ours,” Bowen told WWD. “Kanye knows he is a media sensation and it is just not ethical to do this. It’s like we are David and he is Goliath. We have put our heart and soul into our show, and should not be stepped on like this. In order for our show to have any significance, we now have to move our date and time which is a logistical nightmare, three days out from our originally scheduled time.”
As Footwear News reports, the Yeezy Season 2 collection includes new Boost colorways, beige fitted thigh-high boots, and long-sleeve camo shirts, and Wednesday’s show will be livestreamed to select theaters in various cities around the world. Kanye debuted “Wolves” at a New York Fashion Week show earlier this year, so maybe he’ll preview some more SWISH material at this one? (Let’s not hold our breath, though.)
SEASON 2 http://t.co/8T1uPQewkc
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 14, 2015
Season 2 will be live streamed to theaters in the following cities
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 15, 2015
Atlanta GA
Belfast Ireland
Berlin Germany
Birmingham UK
Cary NC
Chicago IL
Copenhagen Denmark
Dallas Tx
Denver CO
Dublin Ireland
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 15, 2015
Emeryville CA
Framingham MA
Frankfurt Germany
Hanover MD
Houston TX
Las Vegas NV
London UK
Los Angeles CA
Manchester CT
Manchester England
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 15, 2015
Mays Landing NJ
Melbourne Australia
Miami Beach FL
Minneapolis MN
New York NY
Orlando FL
Paris France
Philadelphia PA
Phoenix AZ
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 15, 2015
Richmond Heights OH
San Diego CA
San Jose CA
Seattle WA
Sterling Heights MI
Sydney Australia
Washington DC
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 15, 2015
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 15, 2015