Kanye West shows up at Paris Fashion Week in a sweatshirt with the words “White Lives Matter” emblazoned on it. This causes a lot of uproar and headwind. Now the musician expresses himself about the scandal and is happy to have shown it to everyone.
Imagine it’s fashion week in Paris and everyone is only interested in Kanye West. This is exactly what is actually happening, because the musician and fashion designer once again caused a real scandal on site.
The 45-year-old wore a shirt with the slogan “White Lives Matter”. Alongside him was black model Selah Marley, 23-year-old granddaughter of reggae icon Bob Marley and daughter of singer Lauryn Hill, whose family has struggled with racism of its own.
West initially left open what he wanted to express with this appearance. The anti-racism organization “Anti-Defamation League” classified the sentence as a racist reaction to the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The inversion of their motto to “White Lives Matter” has long been widespread in the right-wing scene. And so, among others, black right-wing activist Candace Owens shared a picture of West and Marley in their debate-worthy clothes.
Now Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband comments on Instagram himself about the scandal and celebrates that he managed to expose people with his action. Because instead of devoting himself to the rest of the fashion on site, which he himself believes is “crazy, overpriced” and writing about it, the reporting on Fashion Week would now only be about him and his shirts, he writes in the post.
He was concerned with a “paradigm shift”, West continued. The fact that his shirt is now drawing all the attention is that we are all “programmed sheep”. To another photo cost, in which the sweatshirt can be seen again with the print, he answers the question of why he printed it with “White Lives Matter”, so: “Because it is so!”
On Monday Kanye West presented the ninth collection of his label Yezee aka YZY in a hall near the Arc de Triomphe. Only a little more than 100 guests were invited, everyone else could follow the spectacle on YouTube. “We are the street, we are the culture,” was his motto that evening.
