Following criticism that he was making fun of the homeless community by displaying his new Yeezy collection in trash bags in GAP shops, Kanye West is defending his choice.
The rapper said during his appearance on Fox & Friends on Thursday morning that he was only attempting to question long-standing customs around how we dress and create attire that is more equitable and less pompous.
Kanye said on Fox & Friends, “I’m an inventor and I’m not here to sit up and apologise for my ideas.”
He added that the purpose of the bags is to make life simpler and informal so that we can all, essentially, dress in the dark. He also clarified that the bags are not “garbage” bags, but rather construction bags, and that the reason for the bags is so people can informally reach in and grab what they want to buy.
The father of four stirred some controversy last week when he claimed on his Instagram account that “the homeless” served as the inspiration for his clothing line, Yeezy.
After pictures were shared showing his clothes stored in giant black bags rather than on hangers or neatly folded in heaps, Twitter users expressed surprise at his strange vision.
A tweet from Owen Langan that included a picture of the unkempt goods and the assertion that a “sales colleague stated Ye got upset when he noticed they had everything on hangers and this is how he wanted it” set off the uproar.
They won’t assist you locate [your] size either, so you’ll simply have to go through everything, he said.
Kanye had people thrifting at Gap, the public joked after viewing images of his most recent clothes collection, which he said was “inspired by the homeless” last week on Instagram.
Others noted that “working at Yeezy Gap is going to be horrible” and that he “knows what he’s doing” since he was a former Gap employee.
Kanye has a song entirely dedicated to how much he hated working for the Gap. Why would he make life more difficult for Gap employees? The whole shop is soon to resemble a laundry basket vomit scene. Everyone else will be working in recovery, and one cashier will be let go.
Nevertheless, a Twitter user said he was attempting to “avoid the irritating repetitive loop of always refolding and hanging and presenting items to a corporate vision standard.”
It’s crazy, haha, the things people let Kanye get away with. One social media user said, “Those Gap coats and Yeezy boots are terrible, but people will wear them since it has his name on it.”
In response to Kanye’s Instagram post on how the homeless inspire him, several followers advised him to assist the destitute end their homelessness rather than utilising them as inspiration for his designs.
Another individual said, “Sounds like exploitation of the helpless.”
Ye “has a strong and solution-oriented commitment to solving problems around homelessness,” a Yeezy GAP spokeswoman said in January to The Post.
According to TMZ, Kanye met with philanthropic groups in November 2021 to brainstorm solutions to the city’s pervasive issue.
According to the city’s most recent homeless census, the housing crisis has been a major problem for Los Angeles, and as of January 2020, there were more than 66,400 homeless persons in Los Angeles County, with 41,000 of them living within the city boundaries, including thousands on Skid Row. Only New York has a larger estimated homeless population than this one.
The nation’s second-most populated city is now home to rows of tents, cardboard shelters, broken RVs, and improvised plywood buildings, while the homeless population used to be mostly restricted to the infamous Skid Row district in downtown.