'Source' Says Kanye Is Headed to LV Men's; Ye Worked with Donald Trump to Overturn GA Election; Kanye Tells Kim K to 'Run Right Back to Me, Baby' Pt.1
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In 24 hrs. starting Thursday evening December 9, 2021 to Friday morning December 10, 2021
Rumors are that Kanye West is headed to Louis Vuitton because he and creative mastermind Virgil Abloh made an agreement that West would take over after Abloh’s death.
Kanye West joined Drake in a LA-benefit concert for Larry Hoover, currently serving a 150 - 200 years sentence at a high security prison in Colorado. At that concert, Kanye went off script and sang ‘Runaway’, dedicating the song to his estranged wife Kim Kardashian, asking her to 'Run Right Back to Me,Baby'.
This morning Reuters broke the story that Kanye West’s publicist became very involved in trying to overturn the Georgia election results by giving total credence to Donald Trump’s accusations against Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter.
Anne of Carversville does not presume to know what makes Kanye West tick. For all we know, he’s headed towards another mental health episode, which we wouldn’t wish on anybody — even Kanye’s best buddy Donald Trump.
Since Kanye jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon and declared that God came to him in the shower, telling him to shut down Planned Parenthood, we have little time for Kanye West. A decade ago, we were big Kanye fans.
However, everywhere I’ve turned since 11pm last night, Kanye West is in my face.
Kanye fancies himself — like Trump — a great manipulator of simple minds like ours. After all, God speaks to him in the shower, so he’s a VIP on planet earth, knighted by God to do men’s work of keeping women subordinate to male rule.
To me he’s just another misogynist in the long-line of so-called men of God running roughshod over women’s bodies, but I’m sure Kanye knows best. After all, he has a direct line, and I have none — being a scarlet woman.
I’m about to do a brain dump on Kanye West and will divide it into two parts. We start with my Thursday night reading and pleas of “No, no, no . . . don’t do it.”
1) Kanye at Louis Vuitton Mens
AOC is still reeling from Virgil Abloh’s death, and last night Kanye West rumors broke that he’s headed to Louis Vuitton Men’s. In quotes from ‘The Sun’ that troubled me deeply, an unnamed source said: “Kanye is devastated about Virgil’s death because they had been friends for years and worked together a lot. They shared a similar vision and now Kanye feels he owes it to Virgil to continue his work at Louis Vuitton.”
Besides expected sources like Hypebeast, Highsnobiety, then the Daily Mail, Yahoo and scads of syndicated local publications by Friday morning, CR Fashionbook just picked up the Kanye West to Louis Vuitton Men’s story.
Kanye West Was Jealous of Virgil Abloh
AOC has a long memory and we recall distinctly Kanye West’s assertion that HE — and not Virgil Abloh — deserved the LV Men’s position. West expressed jealousy to DJ Zane Lowe during a 2015 interview for Beats 1 saying, "I felt like it was supposed to be me. I was the Louis Vuitton Don. People still called me the Louis Vuitton Don on the street."
None of us have forgotten this story, and it’s one that keeps getting resurrected.
In October, 2019 W Magazine wrote Kanye West Thinks He Should Have Virgil Abloh’s Job at Louis Vuitton.
When Kanye West sat down for an interview with DJ Zane Lowe in 2015, he proclaimed himself “the greatest living rock star on the planet.” In his latest interview with Zane, released today, West has upped himself to “unquestionably, undoubtedly the greatest human artist of all time.” His greatness, apparently, now transcends both mediums and eras. Leonardo Da Vinci, who?
“It’s just a fact,” he added for emphasis.
Let me say for the 27th time — Kanye West has a God complex, just like his good friend Donald Trump. If Kanye is unquestionably the greatest human artist of all time, Bernard Arnault would have hired him, because Bernard Arnault is one of the world’s most brilliant business executives.
Of course, there are many additional skills required to be a successful creative director and not seeing yourself as the center of the universe from sunrise to sundown is typically one of them. Temperment is an issue today, as we were recently reminded with the departure of the most talented designer Daniel Lee from Bottega Veneta.
Bernard Arnault doesn’t need Kanye West in his face now and probably ever.
Louis Vuitton is the biggest, most successful luxury brand in the world. Seriously, Kanye West called for a boycott of Louis Vuitton almost a decade ago. West is a loose cannon; and now he is tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection against the US government, as Trump’s man in Georgia.
Bernard Arnault Does NOT Need Kanye West
Arnault can have a trusting relationship with Rihanna and Jay-Z, and with Jay-Z comes his uber-talented wife Ms. Beyonce-Knowles — for advice on what to do in this matter.
They roll just fine with Mr. Arnault and his kids and are excellent sounding boards, who don’t belong to the “I am God” club. They are talented businesspeople-creatives, and they are genuine activists and philanthropists capable of looking at life from perspectives not their own.
This fine team of advisers is far from being alone on the LVMH roster.
Virgil Abloh was very tight with the new design director at Kenzo Nigo of A Bathing Ape fame. In reading about Nigo a few nights back, of course my man Pharrell Williams popped into the picture.
While Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and Pharrell Williams are running around town trying to create positive change in the Black communities of America and beyond — while they are giving of themselves for humanity and practicing some real Ubuntu Nelson Mandela style in their businesses and personal lives — Kanye West was trying to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
I can’t keep up with writing about all the extraordinary work that Pharrell is doing in Black communities. Those efforts are very much what makes for a successful creative director today. Spotting talent and advancing talent is key and Virgil Abloh was a master at that.
Collabs are more important than ever — much more important than some dude running around town telling anyone who will listen that he’s the greatest artist ever in the history of humankind.
PLEASE! If Kanye West planted the “he’s on his way to LV Men” story, what a disgrace. What a dishonor to the barely cold body of his friend Virgil Abloh. Every time I write about Abloh, I start crying.
Managing Risk and Volatility, Travis Scott Style
Let me say one more thing about prominent talents who can be volatile. LVMH already has risk built into the Dior Men’s Spring 2022 collection, a collab with Travis Scott.
Clearly, the LVMH team is learning a lot about the impact of a major incident — in this case the Nov. 5 Astroworld tragedy in Houston — on their business.
Scott was the headliner and creator of the Astroworld festival, where 50,000 people were in the audience. Scott’s set turned deadly as fans surged toward the stage, leaving 10 people dead. The youngest victim was 9-year-old Ezra Blount. Some 300 people were injured and treated at the festival site and 25 were taken to hospitals.
More than 300 lawsuits have been filed, and reality is that Scott has a long history of encouraging people to rush the stage.
I have no idea what will happen, and AOC considers the Dior Spring 2022 collection with Travis Scott to be brilliant. Reality is, however, that there is no guarantee that Dior won’t somehow get dragged into this situation when 300 lawsuits have been filed.
Lawyers today go after everybody who might have money, and the settlements in these cases will be major. Will people be as inclined to wear Travis Scott co-created product after Astroworld? No one knows, but LVMH is about to find out.
This may be enough excitement for Bernard Arnault and the entire LVMH team to deal with in 2022. Do they seriously want to add Kanye West to the bonfire?
Also, the French are proud secularists, not-God-fearing people. Does Bernard Arnault really want to back God’s man in charge of taking down Planned Parenthood?
Does the women’s division of Louis Vuitton want to back a total misogynist who said a few weeks back, about women who have spoken out against sexual assault in the entertainment industry and beyond — attacks from men like Harvey Weinstein and Marilyn Manson — Kanye West called these women’s stories an example of “mob mentality . . . Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control.”
That’s talk from a true authoritarian, loving Republican dude no different than US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is also devoted to Godly authoritarian rule. Just today, Thomas was the only US Supreme Court Judge who voted against allowing the lawsuits in the Texas six-week abortion law, accompanied by vigilante enforcement, to proceed. Like Kanye, Thomas is another of God’s men determined to shut down Planned Parenthood.
Seriously, does Bernard Arnault really think Kanye West is worth taking all this mess onto his corporate shoulders in the middle of a global pandemic.
Of course, on the Subject of I.B. Kamara . . .
And what about I.B, Kamara for Louis Vuitton? Granted, he’s very young, but Kamara towers over Kanye West in terms of fashion design talent. The Dazed EIC worked closely with Virgil Abloh as a stylist at Louis Vuitton.
i was checking out Kamara’s backstory yesterday, reading more about Sierra Leone, and its own experiences in the American and British attempts to return freed slaves to Africa. AOC has written about the founding of Liberia, but we knew nothing about Sierra Leone. Hands down, I.B. Kamara is among the truly elite visionaries to enter the fashion industry in recent years.
AOC wrote a few days ago, that I have no doubt that Kamara channels ancestral memory in his work. The New York Times wrote an in-depth on I.B. Kamara in September: How Ibrahim Kamara Found His Place in Fashion.
We continue tomorrow with Kanye West’s role in trying to overthrow the Georgia presidential election and his strong misogynist tendency, inspired by his embrace of an authoritarian God. ~ Anne
