Balenciaga cuts ties with Kanye West
Balenciaga revealed that the fashion house will no longer be working with Kanye West.
“Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” parent company Kering told WWD.
The Post has reached out to Balenciaga for comment.
In recent weeks, West, 45, has made increasingly controversial remarks, from debuting “White Lives Matter” T-shirts in his newest fashion collection to tweeting anti-Semitic threats.
West has opened for Balenciaga fashion shows and collaborated with the house’s artistic director, Demna, on several occasions, including the release of the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga line that dropped earlier this year.
However, Balenciaga also has close ties with West’s ex, Kim Kardashian, 42, and her plethora of fashion icon sisters. Kardashian has starred in Balenciaga campaigns while Kylie Jenner, 25, and Khloé Kardashian, 38, were recently spotted attending the release of the new collection at Paris fashion week on Oct. 2.
West dabbled in designing for years before officially joining the fashion world in 2015 when he dropped Yeezy Season 1 with Adidas.
Adidas, who has had a 10-year relationship with West, recently announced that their partnership with the rapper-turned-designer is “under review.”
While being dropped and placed “under review” by major brands, West also recently announced that he is abruptly ending his deal with Gap.
As his fashion career seems to be in peril, West is attempting to expand into new avenues. He announced plans to buy the social media app Parler, which has been accused of playing a role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
The rapper, who was diagnosed in 2016 with bipolar disorder, has seemed to be spiraling out of control with some dismissing his remarks as mental illness and others calling him out for hate speech.
He has been banned from Twitter after writing Sunday that he wanted to go “death con 3” on Jews. His Twitter suspension for anti-Semitism comes days after West was knocked off Instagram for making anti-Jewish remarks.
His Instagram account was first restricted after sharing a since-deleted screenshot of an iMessage exchange in which he accused Sean Combs, a k a Diddy, of being controlled by Jews.
After his suspension, West sat down with British broadcaster Piers Morgan to say he was “sorry for the people I hurt,” while trying to justify his actions as “fighting fire with fire.”