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“Zoolander Territory!” Kanye West Slammed For Displaying Yeezy Threads In Garbage Bags

Mary Madigan
Published on: 19th August 2022 at 11:18 AM
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Kanye West is hitting back at criticism for showcasing his latest Yeezy Gap collection in garbage bags.

It’s 2022, inflation is happening, and West is defending his right to store his designer GAP clothes in literal garbage bags. Yes, people are forced to forage for their designer goods.

https://twitter.com/owen__lang/status/1559325159827316737

During an interview with Fox & Friends, he said: “I’m an innovator, and I’m not here to sit up and apologise about my ideas.

“That’s exactly what the media tries to do. Make us apologise for any idea that doesn’t fall under exactly the way they want us to think.”

He also clarified that they are construction bags, not garbage bags, but they look very similar to garbage bags.

Basically, he is defending his right to display clothes in garbage bags. This is an interesting response because no one is questioning his right to use the garbage bags. People are instead criticising the fact he is choosing to use garbage bags.

Also, it’s worth keeping in mind the clothes stuffed in the bags that customers then have to riffle through aren’t cheap. Yeezy hoodies retail for around $US240, and a basic t-shirt hits the $US120 mark.

Naturally, Twitter has gone wild over it.

https://twitter.com/DaveyBucky/status/1560429576131514368

The richer Kanye get the more slave ideas he come up with ain’t no way Bruh we ain’t no damn dogs to be pickin out a damn garbage bag is you crazy pic.twitter.com/L87lMrAaX3

— Google imastarr (@ImaSTARRduh) August 18, 2022

Walks into a store, looks around..

Excuse me.. why do you have everything hung up nicely..

I only shop at places that display their clothes in garbage bags..

I prefer to dig for my $300 shirt..

*insert Eye Roll inspired by Kanye

— Gingy the Ginger Queen (@Feisty_Ginger_6) August 18, 2022

They mad at Kanye for selling his cloths out of bags but belenciaga got y'all wearing garbage bags lmao

— UCIT2020 (@UCIT2020) August 18, 2022

Kanye West introducing his new (literal) garbage bag marketing innovations is straight up Zoolander territory. LET ME SHOW YOU… DERELICTE! pic.twitter.com/8J0ZlOMPSy

— Hunter Keegan (@HHKeegan) August 18, 2022

https://twitter.com/SowmyaK/status/1560135915024023552

While the backlash is loud, it will be more interesting to see if consumers actually dig through the garbage bags/construction bags for Yeezy.

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Mary Madigan began her career working for ex-Vogue editor and chief Kirstie Clements and has since done everything from PR to tutoring at The University Of Notre Dame. Mary Madigan was a journalist at B&T until 2022.

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