Balenciaga’s luxury fashion house severed ties with the American rapper Kanye West less than a month after the rapper opened Balenciaga’s fashion show in Paris.
The rapper sparked backlash after appearing at a surprise fashion show at Paris Fashion Week donning a T-shirt that says “White Lives Matter.”
“Everyone here knows that I am the leader … you can’t manage me. This is an unmanageable situation,” West said before the Yeezy Season 9 show began.
“Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” said a statement by one of the fashion house’s parent companies, Kering, according to WWD daily.
Rolling Stone recently reported that on October 17, Balenciaga released a statement informing customers that a section of its website containing the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collaboration, which debuted earlier this year, as well as Ye’s look from his Paris Fashion Week runway debut, had been deleted.
Kanye West has been very embroiled in controversy lately. Internet users noticed that Balenciaga has been distancing itself from the rapper following his anti-Semitic comments on both Instagram and Twitter.
On October 15, Kanye falsely stated in an interview with “Drink Champ”—which has since been deleted—that George Floyd wasn’t murdered but rather died from the narcotic fentanyl. Floyd’s family has filed a lawsuit in response to this accusation.
A representative of the Drink Champ podcast explained to The Hollywood Reporter that the Ye episode was deleted because “Integrity is very important and we don’t want to promote false narratives on our platform.”
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