How Kanye West went from rapper to fashion designer

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He makes headlines at every fashion week. He's sporting matching outfits with his girlfriends. Here's how Kanye West established himself as a respected name in fashion...

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00:00I'm like really into clothes.

00:28I'm gonna be the best dressed rapper out in the game.

00:58You know, I'm fortunate to have Kanye as a friend and a mentor.

01:28A lot of our producers, you know, are very similar to fashion designers and that's one

01:33of the reasons why I'm so interested in fashion is because it's the same thing.

01:37People sample from like, you know, take a military jacket and, you know, and modernize

01:58Kanye West and Yeezy.

02:21This was the decade of the Yeezy, which took on a whole life of its own.

02:24And then I think also closely related to that was the cult of street wear, which was

02:29hugely popular.

02:30Street wear became so incredibly influential and that was definitely, that did not come

02:35from the runway.

02:36It came from the street and this idea of this casualization of fashion.

03:00Beauty's important and it's illegal to be naked.

03:02So why not be adorned in beauty?

03:19Okay, do we not like these?

03:23No, no, no, no, no.

03:24I need these.

03:26It's like, yo, I'm getting on best dressed list now.

03:29I'm stepping all into this territory.

03:32Thank you, you know, to Kanye even for really introducing me to the fashion world.

03:58I'm influential.

03:59The reason why I'm influential, same reason why you want me to come to your show or you

04:02want me to wear your product is the same reason why you got to involve me and you got to cut

04:06me in.

04:30Doing clothes you would have thought I had help, but it wasn't satisfied unless I picked

04:36the cut and myself.

04:49Just the ability to do what no one said you could do to do the impossible is the most

04:54inspiring thing to me.

04:59Because people are afraid as an artist and in this world, we can do whatever we want.

05:23There's only a small amount of pairs left.

05:26I think there's only like, what, let's say 90.

05:28So, yeah, so everyone's rushing.

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