Is This Ye’s New Uniform?

Ye, née Kanye West, has lengthy been fascinated by the thought of camouflage—generally sartorially, however extra typically conceptually. Whether or not he’s sporting a full-face masks, or shifting to after which away from rural Wyoming, or stripping down his title to a monosyllabic moniker, he’s toyed round with the extent to which he can disguise his identification or look. That pursuit has grow to be much less like a method transfer and extra like a conceptual artwork efficiency over time. It makes you wonder if or not somebody as well-known as he’s can efficiently conceal themselves in any respect.

All that’s to say: the type of cumbersome, booted, Balenciaga-heavy outfits that Ye has spent the final yr sporting (and designing, and promoting) have grow to be routine to the purpose that they’ve grow to be part of him. Like his unfathomably well-known ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, Ye has grow to be recognizable just by his silhouette—a lot so that in the first place many assumed it was Ye, slightly than a masked-up Demna, accompanying a spandex-sheathed Kardashian to the Met Gala final fall. And even when he fortunately hasn’t gotten followers to put on morph go well with masks whereas out and about in public, he’s made dressing like a lobsterman right into a modus operandi with a designer price ticket, which has impressed many followers to begin tucking their denims into some massive honkin’ boots within the course of.

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So on the subject of Ye’s uniform dressing, even small deviations appear notable. Final week, he stepped out in Los Angeles sporting what one would possibly enterprise to name “Kanye informal”: a sleeveless Balenciaga emblem hoodie over a inexperienced camouflage long-sleeve, with a pair of dishevelled grey denim carpenter pants, a weathered baseball cap very like those Demna typically wears, and lug-soled black work boots. Nothing right here is precisely new to Kanye outfit oeuvre—he’s all the time liked workwear, military surplus gear, and camo print, even when it’s gotten him into hassle—however we haven’t seen him put collectively garments like this in a while. (That, and military inexperienced is extra colour than we’ve seen him put on in months.) Whether or not or not he’s absolutely shifting gears on his Donda uniform, it’s nonetheless protected to say that no matter’s occurring with Ye’s private type is a gentle sign for what’s to come back within the menswear realm. That, or possibly dressing a bit in a different way is Ye’s precise type of camouflage.