Unfortunately, it cannot be unsaid that Kanye West is one of the most iconic people of our era. Yes, that’s right. An egomaniac, narcissist that calls himself a god, and also even believes that he is the most suitable candidate to run for president for the United States of America while in the meantime he is embracing the fact that before his speech he “smoked a little bit”. However, his superiority in the fashion world has raised the past two years due to his equally annoyingly egomaniac wife. The queen of nothing and everything, Kim Kardashian.

Endless photoshoots and collaborations with designers and fashion houses, Kanye and Kim or Kimye as the fans call them, have dominated the fashion scene as the ‘It’ couple.  Really close friends with both Olivier Rousteing (creative director of Balmain) and Ricardo Tisci (creative director of Givenchy), Kimye even posed for the campaign of the fashion houses, thus connecting the history of two haute – couture fashion houses with the faces of a lunatic and a wannabe sex tape celebrity. This example, gives an idea of the ‘violation’ and the chaos these two have created in the fashion world. However, as we all guessed Kanye West did not stop there.

Collaborating with Adidas in 2015, he created a clothing line called ‘Yeezy’; more like “Jesus” when we got to see the collection. Long story short, oversized parkas, spanx, leggings, baggy hoodies and pants, all in neutral colors. Either way, in the New York Spring/Summer 2016 fashion week, Kanye presented the season 2 of Yeezy. Of course the hype for the show was vast, maybe the most talked show of the fashion week, and he also surprised the guests by cancelling it and then actually cancelling the cancelation; no comment. The show started, and everyone thought that there was probably a mistake since the collection seemed almost identical to the previous one. Nothing new, nothing fresh, only a very strictly coordinate color scheme of the models/clothes on the runway and of course Kanye West’s unreleased song. The show ended with the designer, Kanye – if that’s not another blasphemy to the fashion world -   walking around triumphing for what he accomplished once more while Kim was applauding for the photographers in her best pose. A few hours later, fashion reports started being published; and that is the root of the problem.

Titles such as “Yeezy Season 2 is More of the Same, but That’s Not A Bad Thing” or “Yeezy Season 2: Takes Your Breath Away” bombarded the majority of the well known fashion websites, making you wonder “Am I missing something?”.  The answer is no. You are not.

What is missing is actual journalism; actual opinion and harsh criticism. Most of these well known publication will definitely not go against Kanye West’s lunacy for many reasons. First of all, they want and need to sell copies. 

By embracing Kanye West’s fashion show they expand their audience by having fans reading them as well as advertisement; we all know that advertisement always pays well enough. Secondly, who really wants to go against a tenacious stoner with such power and money as Kanye West? It would be a nightmare.Therefore, we have journalists such as Alec Leach, editor of HighSnobiety, not only supporting Kanye West’s fashion vision but also stating that the almost non progression that was witnessed at the show was the best choice he made as he is a new designer, experimenting with everything still.  Specifically, it was argued that as a new designer he should be taking baby steps. The truth is, Alec Leach may just actually be that naïve and ‘celebrity-crazed’ brainwashed that he cannot see the untalented nature of the ‘God of music’ – and ‘God of fashion’ now -. However, as an editor of a ‘small’ online lifestyle news site he needs to attract more audience, thus conform to the majority’s opinion. This is actually an element in most of Alec Leach’s pieces of writing. Nothing fresh, nothing original just recycling the already recycled.

Thank God – No, Kanye I am not referring to you -, there are still journalists such as Cathy Horyn. who are even banned from fashion shows, she is banned from YSL and Giorgio Armani, they  continue to express their true original opinion despite the fashion media fascism. Cathy Horyn’s pieces are defined by two things, raw honesty and humor. She does not conform to society’s norms and she doesn’t write things that people want to read. She writes what she actually sees and thinks. Nothing more, nothing less. Particularly, surfing through endless reviews of the Yeezy Season 2 show, she was the only on to have written lines such as “ This second round of drab, broken-down basics proved he can’t be taken seriously as a designer” or “ they [people] wouldn’t bother with this stuff if it were offered by an unknown, and if it’s the spectacle they seek, it changes as little as the clothes.” She was not writing something amazing or extraordinary; she was writing the truth. She was watching a show that looked almost identical to the previous one and she was not afraid to say it as that is the job of hers; a journalist. Truthfully, journalists such as Cathy Horyn are outnumbered in today’s society through the constant bombardment of Kanye West appraisal. They might not even be in the first articles to come up when you google “Yeezy Season 2 Review.” However, journalists and pieces such Cathy Horyn give you food for thought and to actually take a step back and form your own opinion in this media dictatorship. 

So, is Kanye West fooling the fashion world or is the fashion world fooling us on behalf of him? It’s not really up to me to answer that. At the end of the day he could be God indeed, who knows.