![]() Ye’s role might be less public but even more impactful. Ye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian, of course, is a face of Balenciaga, and has helped Demna pull off some of the brand’s most impactful stunts, like when she and the designer attended the Met Gala in black full-body shrouds. He’s also Adidas’s most influential and famous collaborator, and one wonders whether he advised Demna on the Balenciaga x Adidas collection unveiled yesterday. The new silhouette begs the question: Has Ye, a top Balenciaga customer and on-off Demna collaborator, become something more like a muse to the house’s creative director? (Demna, in a very Ye-like move, dropped his last name at the end of last year.) Ye wasn’t wearing one of his infamous masks at the Spring 23 show, but the models were sheathed in kinky latex face masks that obscured their identities. In a press release, Balenciaga describes the boots as “thick in volume but lightweight.” They look like salvage diver boots, designed to keep a frogman anchored on the seafloor in reality, they’ll probably float. Like the Crocs, the rubber ’Roids are made from a single mold-zoom in and you can see a faint seam running up the Ronald McDonald-esque toe box. But Ye’s new Balenciagas, which would officially debut on the runway moments later, take his love of exaggerated proportions (and what one writer dubbed “shale country chic”) to even-more-provocative heights.īalenciaga calls them the Steroid Boots, a conceptual follow-up to the viral galosh-boots the brand released with Crocs earlier this year. Which is saying something, considering Ye himself has introduced colossal, OSHA-approved stompers like the Red Wing 3094s into the men’s fashion lexicon. It was Ye, neé Kanye West, wearing the largest boots I’ve ever seen. At Balenciaga’s Spring 23 show, held on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, most of the attendees had taken their seats when a sort of rubbery creaking approached from the other side of a trading terminal. ![]() I could hear them before I could see them.
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