Kanye West has recently unveiled his latest fashion line inspired by Bianca Censori, but his fans have not received it well. The rapper faced criticism after sharing a nude photo of his wife from Australia.
On Tuesday, Kanye, who is 47 years old, took to Instagram to announce a new women’s collection under his YZY fashion brand. He gave a sneak peek of one of the designs, which drew inspiration from the Yeezy architect, who is 30 years old.
The design in question closely resembles an outfit previously worn by Bianca just a fortnight ago. It features delicate spaghetti straps and a revealing sheer black fabric.
The Grammy winner’s fans quickly shared their opinions on the bodysuit from the new line, which rivals Kardashian’s SKIMS brand, with one fan calling the tiny piece of clothing a ‘napkin.’
As fans fume at Kanye for ‘putting his wife on public display’ and having ‘no respect’, Daily Mail revisits all the disturbing revelations his ex Julia Fox made about his obsession with dressing up women like ‘puppets’.
In her memoir Down the Drain, the actress and model details her whirlwind relationship with Kanye West, which lasted less than two months in early 2022 but was a ‘game’ of control that she calls ‘sick’ and twisted’.
The Uncut Gems star, 34, refused to sign an NDA after she parted ways with Kanye and offers one of the few firsthand accounts of his obsession with women’s clothing.
‘They’re party decorations. Ornaments to be admired,’ Fox writes as she describes the crowds at Kanye’s ‘Gatsby like’ parties.
‘He appoints a team to work on my wardrobe. I immediately think of an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians where he did the same thing for his estranged wife in their early stages of dating. This is all so surreal.’
Julia writes that she met Kanye — who she refers to only as ‘the artist’ — when a friend asked if he could pass along her number to a ‘famous artist who’s been asking about me.’
Soon enough, a text arrived ‘followed by dozens of phone calls.’
After their first meeting, Julia writes that Kanye swiftly asked her to be his girlfriend and appointed two of her closest friends, Tammy and Liana, to be her stylists.
This created a rift in their friendships, as eventually they don’t ask Julia for her opinion on what she’d like to wear, but his.
‘I watch powerless as my life shrinks to fit inside cardboard boxes. The new clothes he got me won’t fit inside my small place,’ she writes.
When the pair split, Tammy and Liana continued working for Ye, going on to style his next girlfriend. While Liana quit working for Ye after a discussion with Fox, Tammy continued.
‘I block her number,’ Julia writes. ‘I can’t accept that my friend of ten years would choose him over me … for clout.’
According to the Italian-American star, Kanye went so far as to covertly call in one of her stylists in the middle of a date.
Tammy texted Julia, ‘Come to the bathroom.’
‘To my surprise I find [Tammy] in the bathroom with a mountain of clothes. I’m happy to see her, but it’s a little strange he didn’t just tell me he didn’t like my original outfit.’
During the dinner at New York restaurant Carbone, he had photographers snap photos, which she woke to find splashed over gossip website Page Six.
Julia said the experience made her feel like a ‘show monkey.’
During an impromptu photoshoot in a hotel room that would go on to appear in Interview magazine, Julia says she remarked that she couldn’t wear one of the the outfits because ‘it’s not quite right.’
In response, she says Ye offered to get her a boob job.
‘The artist’s words cut through the air, sharp and unexpected,’ she writes. ‘I look at myself in the mirror, taking in my post-baby body. They’re not so bad, I think to myself.’
Julia refused the boob job but says Ye’s offer stuck with her.
As their relationship progressed, Julia began to suspect that she was more prop than partner.
‘The only time he engages is when the camera is on us,’ she writes, ‘when he will grab me and kiss me passionately.’
Many of her significant moments with Ye were documented by his personal photographers, and in at least one instance, the rapper had Julia and her friends re-create their reaction to his gifting them Birkin bags for her birthday.
‘As we post like puppets, I question his true intentions, feeling that this grand gesture is nothing more than a publicity stunt,’ she writes. ‘I’m disconnected from the moment. I try to find gratitude for the lavish gifts, but the feeling of insincerity lingers.’
Early on in their relationship, Ye promised Julia a ‘million-dollar deal’ with an Italian denim company and negotiated it on her behalf. However, after she initiates their split over the phone, she’s told ‘it’s contingent on you being his girlfriend.’
Not long after, Julia writes she was hit with a barrage of texts and calls from Ye about the unsigned NDA.
‘I can’t be friends with you if you don’t sign it,’ he warned her.
‘I’ll live,’ she texted him.
Speaking to his competition in the announcement of his new fashion line this week, Kanye wrote: ‘Yzy women’s coming next • SCALING INNOVATION For anyone in clothing that doesn’t work at Yeezy be afraid Be very afraid.’
