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Balenciaga Officially Severed Ties With Kanye West

The decision comes less than a month after Ye opened Balenciaga’s summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week.By by Ellen DurneyBuzzFeed News StaffPosted on October 21, 2022, 3:55 pmTwitterFacebookLink

Balenciaga s partnership with Kanye West is officially over

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Kanye — now known as Ye — has a long history with the French fashion house largely due to his close relationship with its creative director Demna

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Demna and his brother Guram Gvasalia were enlisted to consult on Ye s Yeezy Season 1 line back in 2015 and the two creatives have only grown closer in the years since

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In 2021 Demna served as creative director for Ye s three Donda listening parties and by January of the following year the pair had announced their ill-fated collaboration Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga

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Now less than a month after he opened Balenciaga s summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week a parent company for the fashion house has announced it has officially cut ties with the rapper

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Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist read the statement which was provided to WWD on Friday

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Though the spokesperson did not elaborate any further the end of the partnership comes after a string of controversial statements from Ye

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Balenciaga appeared to publicly distance itself from the Yeezy founder earlier this month after he was suspended from both Twitter and Instagram for making antisemitic comments

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Days later on Oct 15 Ye made an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast in which he claimed among other things that the Jewish media blocked him out

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In this interview — which has since been deleted — he also falsely claimed that George Floyd wasn t murdered but was instead killed by the drug fentanyl This claim has resulted in a lawsuit from Floyd s family

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According to Rolling Stone on Oct 17 Balenciaga issued a statement informing customers that Ye s look from his runway debut at Paris Fashion Week had been removed from its website along with a section containing the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collaboration which launched earlier this year

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Ye s fashion relations have been a contentious issue in recent months

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On Sept 15 shortly after Ye claimed that he had cut ties with Gap the retailer confirmed that its 10-year partnership with Yeezy had come to an end

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Less than a month later on Oct 6 Adidas issued a statement announcing that its multibillion-dollar partnership with the rapper is officially under review

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This came just three days after Ye faced intense backlash for featuring a White Lives Matter T-shirt during his YZY SZN 9 runway show at Paris Fashion Week on Oct 3

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The slogan is often used to counter the Black Lives Matter movement and has been associated with racism and white supremacism

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BuzzFeed News has reached out to Balenciaga and Ye for comment

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