Kanye West x Y-3?

[Anonymous No.7285772]

no... No... NO

PLEASE BE UNTRUE THIS IS SO WRONG

http://sneakerbardetroit.com/2013/11/kanye-west-leaves-nike-signs-deal-adidas-y-3/

[Anonymous No.7285781]

Just shows that Adidas is superior, like it's always been.

[JUICY J No.7285780]

>>7285772
>Ye recently spent time with Y-3 lead designer Yohji Yamamoto

[Anonymous No.7285788]

>>7285772

I guees he was dropped long time ago as he declared in that zane lowe interview
Y3 is like puma in the way that in a couple years you'll cringe when u saw the sneaks nothing classic or atemporal
namsayan

[trunks !!SE08Bv/gZZR No.7285785]

>>7285772
have there been 3 way collabs before?

[Anonymous No.7285790]

Ugh

>Y-3 gets hyped
>Retards namedropping Yohji
>Yohji image becomes the new CdG with their play

[Anonymous No.7285792]

>adidas has rick owens, asap and kanye
top nigger brand

[Anonymous No.7285796]

>>7285792
>implying Nike is any less niggerish

[Anonymous No.7285798]

>>7285796
they dont use niggers to attract niggers

[Anonymous No.7285802]

>All these high profile collaborations
>Still can't sell more shoes than nike

[Anonymous No.7285811]

>>7285798
filename

[Anonymous No.7285807]

>>7285796
>>7285792
both of you probably have never called a black person a nigger in their face.

[Anonymous No.7285808]

Big fan of Yohji, not so much Y - 3. Always thought the concept was a bit too awkward for me and never really liked anything from them.

It irks me a bit to hear this but it probably won't have any negative effect on Yohji, all you Yohi fans can keep doing your thing, Y - 3 wasn't really closely associated with Yohji's image or whatever anyway

But the thing is though... I completely fail to understand WHY they couldn't just do Adidas x Kanye West I mean more people know about Adidas than Y - 3, and Y - 3 is already a collaboration with Yohji... What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.7285809]

I for one am feeling good about this transition. He never did wear enough baggy clothes, Reeboks or a-di-dos.

[faet !!UqsizfrLJ3C No.7285806]

>>7285798
>Jordan

[Anonymous No.7285815]

>>7285807
but i have anon

his response was
>fuckin white boy cracker ass fucking whitey

[Anonymous No.7285813]

>>7285806
jordans is its own brand you idiot

[Anonymous No.7285814]

>>7285808
that nigga kanye wants to be fashion, of course he gonna hop on yohji dik

[Anonymous No.7285821]

last one

[Anonymous No.7285822]

>>7285815
>>7285811
theres a difference between a nigger and a black person, even /pol/ knows that

[Anonymous No.7285823]

>>7285811
you arent making any sense

[Anonymous No.7285819]

>>7285808
>imagining Kanye and Yohji actually speaking with each other about a design
>Yohji making the mistake of allowing Kanye time to speak out of politeness
>Kanye misinterprets Yohji's kindness for weakness and tears out Yohji's throat with his jaws

[Anonymous No.7285826]

>>7285815
I read that as
NIKE AFROLOFT VEST


probs b/c she's black :^)

[Anonymous No.7285827]

>>7285823
i guess you can't figure out that nike has 3 nigs on it's homepage then

>>7285822
he was a crack addict

[Anonymous No.7285829]

>>7285819
unoriginal and unfunny

[Anonymous No.7285834]

[Anonymous No.7285830]

>>7285815
no nigger in 2013 uses the word cracker.

an actual nigger will beat your ass into the ground.

lying on the internet doesnt make you any cooler btw

[Mifune No.7285831]

>>7285790
god i couldn't agree more with this, then infantile fashion wannabes start wearing Yohji not realising you need to earn your black belt.

[Anonymous No.7285835]

>>7285815
Damn saun
dat vests sick

[Mifune No.7285848]

>>7285785
Y-3 isn't a collaboration anymore, it's an actual line. Yohji has signed his name for them to use for the next 10 years and Y-3 have their own dedicated team. The whole lead designer thing is marketing, Yohji himself has very little creative input. It's much more of a legacy label.

[Anonymous No.7285844]

>>7285830
well he did say cracker but he pronounced it cracka

it's cool if you don't believe me that's your deal

[Anonymous No.7285851]

>>7285798
Oh boy

>Clueless cracker

Ok dumbass, even as a black person I know that niggas go way harder over some Nikes before they would do anything over some Adidas.

Mad niggas got killed over Jordans. You ever see a bunch of black people lining up for the latest Adidas release? No, then shut the fuck up.

Every time they do a new release, these motherfuckers are out robbing others in lines starting fights for Nike/Jordans Shit, a few months ago a nigga got killed for trying to rob the whole line. He didn't on there being another more serious dude in the line with a gun of his own. He pulled out, killed the robber and got off clean because some stand your ground shit.

[Anonymous No.7285850]

Nike homepage nigger count: 3
Adidas homepage nigger count: 0

B)

[Anonymous No.7285858]

>>7285851

>Killing people
>bad

lel fuccboi, it's not even on the bible

[Anonymous No.7285860]

>>7285851
*He didn't count on

And it was for the release of some new Lebrons or something, and it happened in Atlanta.

[faet !!UqsizfrLJ3C No.7285865]

>>7285813
it's owned by nike chewboi

cheers
i

[Anonymous No.7285873]

>>7285772
adidas:
raf simons
rick owens
yohji yamamoto
mastermind japan
kanye west
jeremy scott (fugly though)

nike:
undercover

r.i.p. nike

[Anonymous No.7285874]

>>7285831
damn mify i get that you're really emotionally invested in what yohji's doing
but why you gotta be so elitist about it?
yohji makes clothes. if you can affford them and like them, that's all that's needed to wear them properly
yohji isn't about some bullshit code, and fuck the anti-fashion rhetoric saying you can only like yohji and have to subscribe to his theories to enjoy his clothes
at the heart of it, what's yohji about? making clothes you can feel comfortable in, no matter what people think
so you why gotta be so elitist about it?

[Anonymous No.7285871]

the level of idiocy in this thread uuuu

yes, tell me more how adidas is more niggerish than nike
fucking lel

[None !!xzam/DhWm42 No.7285881]

>>7285772
>>7285790
MUH UNDERGROUND BRAND
>mfw

[Anonymous No.7285877]

>>7285858
You think I think killing people is bad?
When a motherfucker is threatening you, you should have the right to blow a hole in them.

Like when that Trayvon Martin shit happened, all of a sudden their were countless black people who didn't understand the stand your ground law. But as a black person, I knew damn well through talking years and years with other black people, they love the idea of something like stand your ground because "If somebody come in my house, Ima kill em" type shit.

No all of a sudden stand your ground is a bad thing. Bullshit. I plan on legally buying a gun, hitting the range, and learning how to use it and what the law is in my state. Because if they fuck with me (hoodlum pieces of shit) I reserve the right to shoot them.

[Anonymous No.7285889]

>>7285790
>>7285881
quick someone make a shitty play on yohji like
"Yohji check my dope hat" and sell it to the retards who bought Comme Des Fuccdown

[Anonymous No.7285886]

Always thought Y3 was a really bad line, Yohji's universe and Adidas to me are veeeeery far from each other and the idea of having them collaborate seemed forced rather than a partnership / creative team endeavour...

And the last thing Y3 needed was even more ugly branding plastered over all their pieces

Pic related, wtf is this shit... Now imagine "KANYE WEST YEEZI" plastered on top of that

[Anonymous No.7285891]

>>7285881

THIS

lel they should hire that nigga from that wolf band or sumthn

[Anonymous No.7285912]

>>7285886

The line hardly seemed like a collaboration, everything looked like they took an adidas piece and some yohji elements and put them in a blender. No harmony at all, just an undefined, crude and vague image. It's supposed to be a "Sportswear line" but you have this:

[Anonymous No.7285909]

>>7285874
also building off this, Y-3 getting more exposure is great, it means more and more people will buy and more and more money for yamamoto, which is especially important for conserving the mainline and offering him near-full creative freedom in his role as designer
same shit with the edwin collab, you can bitch all you want, but if it's putting money in yohji's pocketbook and helping him stay out of bankcrupcy, that's fucking fantastic
>>7285886
Yohji has fucked with Adidas way before Y-3
he's done tons of collabs with adidas outside of Y-3, and Yohji himself has worn adidas for years
I remember one stylist talking about how cute it was to work with Yamamoto-san and that he was always wearing velcro adidas during fittings for his runway shows
Yohji is the Adidas Master

[Mifune No.7285928]

>>7285874
I think we're disagreeing on a fundamental point.

I get where you're coming from, but you're dismissing what I'm saying as merely elitist.

I've said this before. Yohji makes clothes for people who have experienced and expressed themselves, they're for people who are beyond experimenting. But if you think what I just said means

>>at the heart of it, what's yohji about? making clothes you can feel comfortable in, no matter what people think

then we're not going to be able to discuss much further haha.

[Anonymous No.7285925]

>>7285912

...In the same fucking collection as pic related... Everything is so incoherent and it's like they took some Yohji looks from past collections and toned them down and threw in a bunch of uninspired casualwear looks that could have been designed by a 1st year fashion student...

[Anonymous No.7285933]

>>7285874
Fashion is elitist. How much of a noobfag are you?

[Anonymous No.7285942]

>>7285912

.....In the same fucking collection as pic related... Everything is so incoherent and it's like they took some Yohji looks from past collections and toned them down and threw in a bunch of uninspired casualwear looks that could have been designed by a 1st year fashion student...

[Anonymous No.7285958]

>>7285928
No, that's not what I think you're saying, when you say
>Yohji makes clothes for people who have experienced and expressed themselves, they're for people who are beyond experimenting
I think that's wrong
Like I said, they're fucking clothes, you don't need to subscribe to the idea of a timeless style or anything else that. Yohji makes fashion. It's not reserved for an exclusive clientele, like you said, one that is certain in what they're wearing, and more often than not only hold truck by Yamamoto's theories about consumer culture and fashion
I fucking love yamamoto, but there's no barrier that exists in wearing clothes other than the monetary ones; if people find self-expression in wearing yohji or are just comfortable in it, that's cool with me
what you're putting forward is some fucking SZ-tier elitism, which is p. shitty considering you're usually such a chill dude

[Anonymous No.7285962]

>>7285909

Afaik Edwin collab was announced but was cancelled or something and never happened. Also there are a handful of Yohji x Adidas projects (Separate of Y3) and iirc Y3 came to be because Yohji wanted to use stripes or something and asked for Adidas's permission but they proposed Y3? Don't remember someone refresh me on this

[Mifune No.7285960]

>>7285909
I've got Yohji's first collab pieces with Adidas and the 10th anniversary edition stuff, those were actually designed by him and they're great.

Your argument about the financial freedom the collab offers is fine, but it's counter intuitive.

It's more that it's a financial obligation as a huge part of the reason why Y-3 continued was due to Yohji having the financial NEED to do so after the GFC. He didn't sign on for creative endeavours, it was a means to survive... and frankly the new moneymen in Yohji Inc. insisted upon it.

Again, Yohji isn't a day to day force in Y-3.

[Mifune No.7285983]

>>7285958
lol, for someone who's espousing a universal view on fashion you're sure not very tolerant on other's perspectives.

I've tried to read through that post, but I think your emotions got the better of it and it's a bit too much of a ramble for me to get.

>>Yohji makes fashion. It's not reserved for an exclusive clientele, like you said, one that is certain in what they're wearing, and more often than not only hold truck by Yamamoto's theories about consumer culture and fashion

Could you just explain that bit for me? I feel like there's a great point in there, but the weirdly places commas is throwing me off when I read it.

[Anonymous No.7286036]

>>7285960
Du I think you misunderstand me
I'm saying Y-3 putting food on the table for yohji means he can continue on having full creative freedom with the mainline, which is what I meant when I said
> important for conserving the mainline and offering him near-full creative freedom in his role as designer
It's stuff like Y-3 that is keeping him from almost teetering into bankruptcy again
Wish Y's for men would come back tho ;_;

That's pretty cool about the adidas tho, are they the "Endorsed by Yohji Yamamoto" ones with Yohji on the tongue? Those are dope.
Also dig the current Y's x Adidas ones, I might pick them up next time I'm paid, because I need some basic white sneaks
>>7285983
Sorry idk I just really hate the SZ intelligentsia view of fashion that's so elitist, total bummber
Uh, sorry, I'm not very eloquent, but I'll try to explain

What I mean is that Yohji is a very intelligent person and has put forward some really interesting critiques of consumer culture and fast-fashion, but you see a lot of people espoused what he's saying blindly with no consideration of what it means.
When he says "I Hate Fashion", you can't take that at face value.
And so you get all these people being stupid about it - Yohji transcends trends, Yohji transcends fashion, it's timeless, it's yada-yada-yada. Yohji's human, just like anyone else: yes he's an amazing designer and far more emotionally invested in his work than almost anyone I can think of, and that's why his collections are always so cohesive, but threads weave in and out, trends do appear and disappear in his work.
I respect the people willing to acknowledge this and wanting to experiment with Yamamoto's creations and recontextualizing them in interesting ways that speaks about them as an individual, not adopting this bullshit literalism and just trying to nail runway looks and put no real thought into what they're wearing because it's fucking "timeless"

[Mifune No.7286142]

>>7286036
Oh, having adidas' money would definitely help Yohji Inc's bottom line and it's probably fucking awesome because it's essentially licensing his name but there's almost no cost involved for Yohji. It would be interesting to read the contract since with Adidas pursuing so many high profile collabs as of late, i wonder what effect it could have on Yohji.

I don't like SZ either, the stuff I've read there just make me shake my head so much. Their view isn't even elitist, it's just cuntish. Not to mention their ridiculously moderated forums.

What you're saying about Yohji is thoughtful and well considered, I also agree with it.

So what were the issues you had with that I said? I couldn't find it in what you wrote there.

Unless of course we agree, then let's all wear hakamas together.

[Anonymous No.7286175]

So Kirkorov has been avanguarde all along

[Anonymous No.7286195]

>>7286175
That's in 2004?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8USFhWoMec

[Anonymous No.7286200]

>>7286142
Yeah pseudo-intellectual cunts make up p. much all of sz
and it's just about you saying that a certain type of people should wear Yohji, and that it isn't really for aren't "beyond experimenting", when I think it's cool no matter who you are and if you find enjoyment in Yohji's clothes and through using it as self-expression.
definitely got no beef with you, like I said, you seem like a cool dude
And thanks, need to get me some hakamsas, definitely a dream piece, but they're always in size three, need me a 1 or a 2,

[Anonymous No.7286206]

>>7286175
А ты как думал

[Anonymous No.7286221]

>>7286200
and that it isn't really for *people* who aren't beyond experimenting

When you stop striving for new self-expression and stop experimenting, you might as well just have 40 identical double breasted suits made

[Mifune No.7286255]

>>7286200
Bruv, I don't mind if you do have beef with me lol. As long as we can still have good discussion and I can feel like I'm not wasting time replying it's great :)

I probably should explain what I mean a bit more.

I don't agree with the view that ANYONE can put on Yohji and pull it off. That is becoming more and more the prevalent view on a lot of forums. Just check Styleforums' thread, the vast majority of the people posting there look absolutely fucking terrible. But they think because they can hide behind the fog of "self expression"and "enjoyment in Yohji" that they can get away with it.

My point was that the average person needs to make a fuck load of fashion mistakes and have learned from those mistakes to be able have that self assurance to pull off an average yohji runway fit.

That isn't a SZ-tier view, if they've highjacked it then so be it. But the point stands, you've gotta work your way up to the big leagues.

[lovely No.7286268]

>>7285772
Y3 was my first guess when I heard he left nike
I am a freaking mind reader

[Mifune No.7286271]

>>7286255
This is also one of the reasons I will never post pictures of myself on here. Because in my opinion self experimentation is more of a private entity then a shared one. I treat fashion as a growth activity of sorts, personal growth.

[ᵀᴿᴼᴬᴵPoϟt (ง ͠°(...) !!M/8ntLE+we3 No.7286604]

till he get struck by lightning

[ᵀᴿᴼᴬᴵPoϟt (ง ͠°(...) !!M/8ntLE+we3 No.7286822]

>>7286221
no
that's like having sex in one postition/time/location with ur married partner
just no

[Anonymous No.7286945]

>>7286255
Sorry for the late reply I was at Uniqlo lel
And yeah, I definitely see what you mean, in fact it's almost like we're reaching the same conclusion from opposite sides - I think that comes from a naievety and a willingness to believe a lot of the spheal put forward by Yohji's people and just seeing at as easy to pull off, as if no care is required, when it's certainly not, it's arguably harder to style than a lot of fashion and definitely requires a certain amount of introspection: but then again, so does a lot of high fashion
>>7286271
That's a cool outlook to have man

[Anonymous No.7287262]

>implying white suburban kids don't ruin rap

[Anonymous No.7287324]

>>7286255
Shut up. You dress like total shit anyway.

Who are you to determine who should wear yohji or not?

[Anonymous No.7287338]

>>7287262
white people have better taste than black people in rap except black people love gucci mane and he's good

[Anonymous No.7287383]

>>7287338
no they don't. you're just white so you get mad your race has shit taste.
im not white nor black.
white people rap is detron 3030 for example and thats complete shit

[Anonymous No.7287396]

>>7285873

I think Adidas has always been the bigger player when it comes to sneakers people wear for fun instead of functionality, at least in Europe.

[Anonymous No.7287399]

>>7287383
you sound stupid
black people have bad taste in rap even though they create most of it
none of your black friends have heard of busdriver or airborn audio or necro (which is better than ur le real hip hop tupac), and thats what all the white boys listen to

[Anonymous No.7287406]

>>7287399
loled at necro

[Anonymous No.7289348]

>>7287399
my black frends listen to prodigy, roc marciano,wu tang, 3 six mafia, mf doom,nwa, kanyeezy, jay-z, jigmastas and a lot more.
you represent one of the very few whiteboys with an alright taste. the average one listens eminem.
and dont hate tupac just to distance yourself and act like you know your shit about hip hop. i dont even like him but anyone who hates is usually a fat nerd

[trunks !!SE08Bv/gZZR No.7289359]

>>7287399
>none of your black friends have heard of busdriver or airborn audio or necro

so ur just confirming that black ppl have better taste then?

[Anonymous No.7289517]

>>7287399
all three of those rappers are mediocre 90s tier at best

[Anonymous No.7289560]

>>7289359
>busdriver
>not one of the greatest rappers of all time
trunks you're usually okay but now you're fucking up big time

[Aboriginal_Thug No.7289567]

>>7287399

[Anonymous No.7289573]

>>7289560
he is objectively bad XD RANDUMB shit for fedoras

[Anonymous No.7289596]

>>7287399
>(which is better than ur le real hip hop tupac)
LMAO #LMAO

damn nigga shudnt u be making rage comics to post on 9gag or something?

[ᵀᴿᴼᴬᴵPoϟt (ง ͠°(...) !!M/8ntLE+we3 No.7289634]

this thread was decent until the /b/tard who's sole interaction with black people, is one where he enviously hands lube to so his mum doesnt get grumpy the next morning and denies him dosh + curfew time for supreme campouts

[trunks !!SE08Bv/gZZR No.7289643]

>>7289560
busdriver is csscore

[Anonymous No.7289986]

>>7285790
>>7285831

>Y-3 isn't alrdy hype-beast af
>YY isn't well known to all fvcking levels imaginable.

every fucking mainstream rapper has atleast 1 pair of Y-3 shoes where the logo is the size of the fucking moon letting everyone know what they wear.