{"id":1610511,"date":"2022-08-17T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610511"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:02:40","slug":"fishing-a-240-hoodie-out-of-a-garbage-bag-kanye-wests-collab-with-gap-faces-backlash-over-performative-and-annoying-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fishing-a-240-hoodie-out-of-a-garbage-bag-kanye-wests-collab-with-gap-faces-backlash-over-performative-and-annoying-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fishing A $240 Hoodie Out Of A Garbage Bag\u2019: Kanye West\u2019s Collab With Gap Faces Backlash Over \u2018Performative And Annoying\u2019 Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffishing-a-240-hoodie-out-of-a-garbage-bag-kanye-wests-collab-with-gap-faces-backlash-over-performative-and-annoying-presentation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610511&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kanye-west\">Kanye West<\/a> is being mocked for his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fashion\">fashion<\/a> collaboration with retail giant Gap due to his unique requests for merchandising the clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kanye-west-mocked-selling-yeezy-gap-clothing-collection-what-look-like-trash-bags\">Fox News<\/a>, the rapper is allegedly insisting on selling the product line out of giant black bags that shoppers must dig through to find sizes rather than presenting the clothes on hangers like everything else at Gap. Apparently, this merchandising decision is part of the overall vibe of Yeezy Gap, which was said to be inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/homelessness\">homeless individuals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook to the children \/ Look to the homeless as the biggest inspiration for all design,\u201d West posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ChKgOlBLNAK\/\">Instagram<\/a> last week referencing the new collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers have been posting images of the store setup, mocking the \u201cFlashing Lights\u201d rapper for his out-of-the-box concept.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is how they are selling Yeezy GAP. The sales associate said Ye got mad when he saw they had it on hangers and this is how he wanted it. They won\u2019t help you find ur size too, you just have to just dig through everything <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GNd08Zv1zC\">pic.twitter.com\/GNd08Zv1zC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 little miss (@owen__lang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/owen__lang\/status\/1559325159827316737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is how they are selling Yeezy GAP. The sales associate said Ye got mad when he saw they had it on hangers and this is how he wanted it,\u201d a Twitter user shared alongside a photo of the clothing in black bags. The post went viral with more than 57,000 likes. \u201cThey won\u2019t help you find ur size too, you just have to just dig through everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFishing a $240 hoodie out of a garbage bag,\u201d another person quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Another person shared a photo of the same black bags, but the clothing looked a bit less chaotic than the original poster\u2019s image. \u201cEverything was folded and they helped find sizes,\u201d that user explained of their Gap experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Someone else voiced their contempt for West using homelessness as inspiration. They said there was \u201cgeneral pretentiousness that Ye made a weird demand from on his insanity throne so now everyone has to rummage through bags for an hour to find your size of what you\u2019re looking for. It\u2019s all performative and annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBalenciaga &#038; Kanye\u2019s fetish with the homeless as \u2018fashion muses\u2019 it\u2019s everything that is wrong with billionaires\u2026they no longer see the plight of people, they don\u2019t see humans that are suffering, they see opportunities to be \u201cedgy\u201d and profit from it\u2026it\u2019s disgusting,\u201d someone else on Twitter shared.<\/p>\n<p>The Yeezy Gap collection, which was created alongside fashion designer Balenciaga, consists of eight items including a reimagined classic Gap logo sweatshirt in gray plus unisex sweatpants and T-shirts, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/fashion\/kanye-west-yeezy-designs-homeless-b2144158.html\">The Independent<\/a>. The collaboration was described as \u201ctimeless silhouettes translated through the lens of Ye and Demna\u2019s shared vision of utilitarian design.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West is being mocked for his latest fashion collaboration with retail giant Gap due to his unique requests for merchandising the clothing. Per Fox News, the rapper is allegedly insisting on selling the product line out of giant black bags that shoppers must dig through to find sizes rather than presenting the clothes on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}