LC :: SO KANYE WEST WANTS A BALMAIN WARDROBE…

RUMOR: Kanye West To Wear Balmain On Upcoming Tour

Not to be outdone by Diddy, Kanye is tapping Balmain’s Christophe Decarnin to design costumes for his upcoming, sure-to-melt-your-face-off tour. Rumor has it Yeezy is asking for “seventies-centric pantsuits, cutaway coats, and gilded jeans” from Balmain’s fall 2010 collection to be remade just for him.

Though the rapper has a total crush on Lanvin, it makes sense that he’d want something more theatrical for hisMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy tour. Kanye’s been wearing Balmain for some time now, but he’ll be swapping their hoodies and jeans for brocade and fur. And did we mention it sounds like he wants pieces from the women’s fall 2010 collection? Like we said, face melting. In the best way. If only he would wear that gold Balmain dress…

Timeline of Kanya West in couple years: 

The moments leading up to Kanye West’s Balmain-spirations were these:

1. In early 2009, West joins the fashion world traveling from New York to London to Paris with editors and buyers taking in shows big (Louis Vuitton) and relatively small (Christopher Kane) and befriending people like The Sartorialist for the perfect blend of fashion cred.

2. Later, in September 2009, the Taylor Swift thing happens, and even the fashion world is annoyed by West.  In fact, he’s about to go on tour with Lady Gaga, which would have made him fashion’s king to her queen, but then she says, “No thanks!” and does her own thing.

3.  West goes soul searching for the first half of 2010 before coming back to make My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which has been lauded by critics and embraced by fashion.  He makes a short film (sort of, 30 minutes) to promote the album, Runaway, and includesPhillip Lim and Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks.  He stages the first screening during New York Fashion Week and invites fashion’s elite.

4.  Someone leaks that he’ll be wearing Balmain on tour for MBDTF.  Then, this morning, most reports switch and say that he “wants” to wear it.  Meanwhile, just last week, dozens of pieces of Christophe Decarnin’s recent work for Balmain go on sale on the Outnet, which means that Kanye and Balmain kind of need each other and will probably be inseparable in the new year.

sources :

http://fashion.elle.com/culture/2010/12/09/so-kanye-west-wants-a-balmain-wardrobe/

http://www.hintmag.com/department/hint-blog?_page_5eef9f90f4359542db6a882a3efc5a17=1

Interesting : It's a great and interesting combination between a fashionable hip-hop icon and a high fashion house; from what I look in the mentioned collection, I suppose it's definitely gonna fit with Kanya West's image (All the blink blink and dazzling garment) And I was so surprise that there're really these kind of things (from what I read once Spice girls and Britney Spears used to do like this before) They both earned the benefits by wearing and producing the garments. and Kanye West is quite an interesting celebrity. He's the one that everyone talked about when he destroy Taylor Swift 's night at MTV but still...lots of people (from what I read on the blog and some comment from site) loves his inspirational clothes and consider him as a fashionisto. 

I found one of his video which is the video promote of his album; it's look so fashionable and represent his attitude of fashion even it's not showing much garments.

Here's the video ( actually it released since october this year)