Kanye West attempts to ban skirt photos
Rapper Kanye West has reportedly asked one photo agency to remove any photos of him wearing his Givenchy leather kilt following jibes from fellow rapper Lord Jamar.
BY Bibby Sowray | 08 February 2013
Kanye West is never one to shy from a headline-grabbing outfit. His recent homemade beanie-cum-balaclava and the Cline womenswear shirt he wore back in 2011 (which we thought looked rather good) are particular favourites of ours, but it seems he's rather regretting one particular wardrobe choice - his leather Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci kilt.
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The custom-made skirt kilt had its first outing back in 2011 and was sported throughout Kanye and Jay-Z's 'Watch The Throne' tour but, if today's reports are to be believed, it's recently been causing West some grief. The father-to-be has allegedly asked photo agency Getty Images to remove all photos of him wearing the skirt at a concert in aid of Hurricane Sandy last December after receiving jibes from fellow rappers, reports The Sun .
Although Kanye ha! d already worn the skirt on numerous occasions, his appearance at the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert in Madison Square Gardens caught the attention of MC Lord Jamar, who decided to write an elegantly-titled song about it, Lift Up Your Skirt
He introduced the skinny jeans to the rap sceneThen he wore a f***ing skirt on a video screenThen he wore it again at a memorialI can't pretend that this s**t ain't deplorable
Just a taster of some of the less vitriolic lyrics for you there.
To be fair the kilt did look, for want of a better word, more 'skirty' than it had on previous occasions, owing mainly to the lack of a longer-length T-shirt being worn over it, but "deplorable"?
Lord Jamar has also kindly annotated the lyrics on rapgenius.com with the following eloquent explanation: "In HIP HOP CULTURE men wearing skirts is UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD. Just like it's not acceptable in BUSINESS CULTURE for a man to show up in a skirt."
Who knew a leather kilt could cause such a furore? We say stick with it Kanye, don't let the haters bring you down, and maybe even try a dress la Marc Jacobs next time.
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