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| Not the one he wore at the 12 12 12 concert but you get the idea! |
Even if people want to call it a kilt, a skirt is a skirt.
And rapper Kanye West pulled it off handsomely! At the 12 12 12 Concert currently on in Madison Square Garden, NYC, to benefit Hurricane Sandy survivors, West donned a leather skirt over some skinny jeans, topped with a hoodie.
The black skirt was just above the knees and had great volume and pleating. Every swing and movement would cause it to swish, as any great skirt should!
West has made great efforts to be accepted as a serious fashion designer with his womenswear label, DW Kanye West. Launched in 2011, the label received mild to nasty reviews from fashion media.
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| Kanye West the Designer at the Fall 2012 show |
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| DW Kanye West Fall 2012 |
It must have caused a paradigm shift, and a change his is attitudes. If you recall, some of West's past songs are a tad homophobic. I like to think that his foray into high fashion has opened his eyes about the universality of the human existence. And that what is worn outside is just an expression, but does not speak of the totality of the person.
I mean after all, the soft supple leather skirt bears no real reflection to the hard edged, angry rapper image the man possesses.
FYI though, this isn't the first time he wore skirts at his performances. And not the only rapper or R&B artiste to do so either....right DIDDY?
