Is it fair to assume that the humble opinion of Pub. Enemy #1,Kanye West, is all of void and moot at this post-Taylor Swift moment in time? Many would say "yes", but can we stop for a moment to decipher whether Mr. West's style point-of-view is also shrouded in doubt? Although for his Hennessey-fueled VMA disruption he was clad in a leather button down (yeah...I know), he's usually dressed to the nines and goes to painstakingly deep lengths to be on-time for every fashion trend that is occurring, has occurred, or will occur.With countless design collabos, a clothing-line of his own in the works, and an internship with GAP all under his belt, he takes fashion seriously. Or at least he takes the image of him taking fashion seriously, quite seriously. Which is perhaps how he managed to convince ELLE to allow him the chance to style his fembot gf, Amber Rose, in a photoshoot for their October issue. At this point with Ms. Rose, we could assign tropes: bleached buzz cut. catsuit. no underwear. A&T. wrap-around sunglasses. So color me underwhelmed when I got my hands on the issue and the pics. Nothing new, nothing transgressive. Her posterior still ceases to amaze, however.
When I met the couple a few weeks back, funnily enough the same feeling flooded over me. I gushed for a mere two seconds...then their glow quickly gave way to their dimness. Kanye was not the fashion juggernaut I supposed him to be, but instead a consumer. He consumes for the shear pleasure of "having an item", rather than "loving an item"...which defeats the purpose of personal style or the love of fashion. Amber was...bored. She encouraged, she entertained, but her focus was elsewhere. But the girl does certainly orbit. She's all circles, all space, all odyssey.
Her talent as a model is meager, but she has a plan. That plan of course resides on the fact that Mr. West holds up his end of the bargain, with his relevancy and cultural capital offering her the same by default. What would prove to be interesting is if her star would rise, while his faded in a total-svengali form. Time will tell....
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