Why is Kanye failing with fashion?

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I had to ask this.

You know I am one of the biggest Ye stans on here, but I can't holkd my breath anymore. He needs to stop with this shyt.

Here is the thing. Kanye is good at wearing other people's stuff and making those items a hot item and highly sought after.

Kanye is good at putting his name behind products so they go for hotcakes.

His fashion line howevere?

Yeezy season 2 was cancelled/delayed
Yeezy season 3 was shown at MSG, but where and when is it coming out

And now Yeezy season 4 will be showing in September during NYFW.

As a designer myself, I really want to see this dude succeed but I don't even know what he's doing or what he's trying to do.

Is he trying to compete with the Saint Laurents, LVs, and Gucci's of the world? If so....that's never going to happen.

Is he trying to compete with Alexander Wang, Raf Simons, Rick Owens, and these designers? If so, not going to happen.

Is he trying to be HBA or something along the lines of one of those VFILES brands? If so, that's more realistic.

His sneakers sell out because at this point he's known for sneakers. His ,most successful fashion ventures have been with Nike and Adidas.

The clothes however, don't believe the hype, most of it is selling terribly.

Why didn't Pastelle come out? And why did he entrust the future of Pastelle to Ian Connor...who then sold two Pastelle jackets on grailed for $3000 each?

Why did he spend 53 million on trying to get established when more famous designers started for less?

He will always be known for music more than anything else...but I don't think he knows what he's doing at this point.
 

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nikka should have hooked up with Bape to release Pastelle

he had the juice around that time but he wanted to be Marc Jacobs:yeshrug:
Pastelle was basically Kanye's version of BAPE imo.

And yeah, he does want to be a MArc Jacobs type.

I don't get it, he definetely has the money to get things going.

All we get are these overpriced and unoriginal "merch" like
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These $90 gildan screenprinted Ts....

DONDA people.

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Because his clothes aren't good?

Also he's trying to be high fashion when he should probably more along the lines of a niche market.
His "designs" are terrible. Nothing new or groundbreaking. Just already established pieces that are successful but upmarked 200%

I can name 10 designers who had showings this year who made better stuff.

Even his own protege Virgil with Off white is making more groundbreaking stuff and has surpassed where Kanye realistically wants to be.

And tbh, his women's line is insulting.
 

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Honestly I think his products being exclusive and limited is what's hurting him.Nobody wants to search for items and then pay more than retail for them.Everyday atleast 5 people I follow on snapchat are looking for Yeezy merchandise.
 

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dude was stupid all his fans wore shyt like Supreme and Bape

he could have cashed out but he wanted to design dresses:mjlol:
YE has just lost touch with his day one fans.

He spends too much time around high fashion/high art white people and asians trying to get their approval.

How can someone like Jerry Lorenzo of fear of god be successful and never went to a design school and admitted he had only 4 years experience with fashion...

Yet this man has been trying to get a successful fashion venture off the ground for 10 years nearly and it has not happened?
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I'm like you @Sagat huge Ye mark but I dunno what the fukk he's on with this high end garbage pail kids line he's pushing.

I damn near gave up on the breh musically and artistically at this point. :yeshrug: it's not for me to understand.
 
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