“Your lady has been by means of it!” vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson posted Wednesday.
Kanye West has made headlines as soon as once more together with his designs throughout Paris Trend Week.
The 45-year-old Yeezy founder sparked controversy by carrying attire branded with the problematic slogan “White Lives Matter” throughout his PFW presentation on Monday — earlier than additionally sending fashions down the runway in the identical look.
West wore a black long-sleeve tee with the divisive assertion printed on the again, which the Anti-Defamation League has branded “hate slogan.” Becoming a member of him was conservative commentator Candace Owens, who wore the identical shirt in white. The entrance of the garment featured Pope John Paul II and the phrase “Seguiremos Tu Ejemplo,” which means “We Will Observe Your Instance.”
Following his present, vogue editor and stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson shared her ideas on Instagram after attending the presentation. She additionally shared screenshots of messages she’d despatched to buddies that detailed her excessive disturbance with West and his attire.
The “Donda” artist shortly took to the social media platform and mocked Karefa-Johnson’s garments and questioned her place within the vogue world within the course of. He known as the Vogue editor in a since deleted publish “not a vogue particular person” and claimed that Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, would hate the boots she was carrying in considered one of her social media posts.
“There isn’t any excuse, there isn’t a artwork right here,” Karefa-Johnson later added, “I am sorry I didn’t make that clear — I believed I did. I do assume in the event you requested Kanye, he’d say there was artwork, and revolution, and all the issues in that t-shirt.”
In response to each West and Vogue, Kanye and Karefa-Johnson met as much as hash out the incident.
“IM NOT LETTING PEOPLE GO TO BED THINKING I DIDN’T MEET WITH GABRIELLE AT 5 PM TODAY FOR 2 HOURS THEN WE WENT TO DINNER AT FERDIE [an Italian restaurant in New York City,” he claimed, saying the two “APOLOGIZED TO EACH OTHER FOR THE WAY WE MADE EACH OTHER FEEL” and “ACTUALLY GOT ALONG.”
Vogue added, “She was personally targeted and bullied. It’s unacceptable. Now more than ever, voices like hers are needed. In a private meeting with Ye today she once again spoke her truth in a way she felt best, on her terms.”
Early Wednesday, she added, “Your girl has been through it! I’m exhausted, but I am so moved by and grateful for the outpouring of love I’ve received (here and elsewhere) over the last 24 hours.” She concluded, “One thing about me: I will always speak my mind, and always try to honor my truth. My thoughts are my own, and I stand by them.”
Karefa-Johnson, however, has not said anything about the alleged meeting.
During the controversy, a number of stars came to Karefa-Johnson’s defense, including Gigi Hadid, who worked with her on her March 2021 Vogue cover.
“You wish u had a percentage of her intellect,” Hadid commented under West’s post. “You have no idea haha…. If there’s actually a point to any of your s— she might be the only person that could save u. As if the ‘honor’ of being invited to your show should keep someone from giving their opinion ..? Lol. You’re a bully and a joke.”
The 27-year-old continued her sentiments on her Instagram Story, calling the Vogue editor “one of the most important voices” in the industry and could “school that disgraceful man.”
Her mom, Yolanda Hadid, also commented on Vogue’s post, adding: “YES!!! Gaby is an extraordinary, super intelligent, kind, honest and one of the hardest working woman of “fashions future” Her voice should be heard because she will be running the show one day…”
“Thank you for calling it how it is,” Tess Holliday also wrote on the Vogue post.
Following Hadid’s example, Hailey Bieber took to her own Instagram story in support of the editor. “My respect for you runs deep my friend!” the 25-year-old wrote over a photo of Karefa-Johnson. “To know is to adore you and to work with you is an honor …The most kind. the most talented. the most fun. the most chic.”
Also in attendance at the Yeezy show was Jaden Smith, who shared he walked out of the Yeezy presentation on Twitter.
“I had to dip,” he wrote. “I don’t care who it is, if I don’t support the message I’m out.”
Smith also tweeted, “Black Lives Matter” and urged his followers to “think for yourself, have an opinion” and to “follow your own morals, not people” before claiming that West did not have “the full support of the youth.”
Kendall Jenner subtly showed her support for Jaden walking out of the Yeezy show by liking a series of his tweets about her sister Kim Kardashian’s estranged ex-husband.
In addition to Jenner, Khloe Kardashian stepped up to defend her sister Kim from West’s comments against his ex-wife amid his PFW controversy — after he resurfaces his birthday drama with Kardashian while asking, “I wonder what Gigi and [DJ Venus X’s] views have been after I did not know the place my baby was on her birthday … why did everybody really feel so free to assault me about my t shirt however Candace Owens was the one public determine to say that it was flawed for the Kardashians to maintain me from seeing my daughter.”
The Good American founder requested Kanye to “STOP tearing Kimberly down and utilizing our household whenever you need to deflect” in response to the “Donda 2” artist’s public rant about Kim’s uncared for invite to his daughter Chicago’s party which he ended up attending.
“Once more with the birthday narrative. Sufficient already. Everyone knows the reality and in my view, everybody’s uninterested in it,” she commented beneath Kanye’s publish. “You recognize precisely the place your youngsters are always and YOU wished separate birthdays. I’ve seen all the texts to show it.”
Kanye responded to Khloe’s claims by making his personal beneath a screenshot of her remark and known as her and the Kardashian household “LIARS” saying that Chicago was “kidnapped” on her birthday.
Diddy additionally chimed in on the controversy on “The Breakfast Club” on Wednesday, praising West for being a “free thinker” and saying that “lots of time what he means is misconstrued,” earlier than criticizing his transfer and calling it “tone deaf.”
“We do not have to sentence Kanye or cancel him … however on the similar time, you gotta perceive your actions,” he added, saying he wanted a couple of days to recover from West’s shirt.
“Proper now, we are the ones which can be dying, which can be incarcerated, which can be left in poverty, don’t get any cash for reparations,” he added. “This time is the flawed time, we need not get distracted, we have to know what is going on on in our communities.”