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‘Fashion cares more about billionaire bile than those on the breadline’: Fashion academics react to Kanye West

When Ye (Kanye West), stepped out wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with ‘White Live Matter’ on Monday evening, he shocked the room at his YZYSZN9 Paris Fashion Week show.

Jaden Smith was amongst those who walked out, before a social media maelstrom commenced. The following day, Ye took to Instagram targeting Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. Post-show, she wrote she was “fuming” and that "the t-shirts this man conceived, produced, and shared with the world are pure violence. There is no excuse. There is no art here." It prompted West to upload two now-deleted photographs of Karefa-Johnson mocking her appearance and stating she is “not a fashion person”.

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