Kanye West stepped out in a pair of Yeezy Season 8 boots for the first time since he debuted the footwear on the runway at his Paris Fashion Week show back in March. Ye was spotted out and about this week, heading to the main Yeezy headquarters located in Calabasas. The multi-hyphenate star was wrapped up in a fleece coat. zipped all the way up to cover his mouth in an effort to prevent spreading germs during the coronavirus pandemic. However, it’s what Ye was rocking on his feet that caught people’s attention.

High Snobiety points out that the shoes Ye is wearing in these photos are one of the three styles of footwear from the Yeezy Season 8 collection that the designer debuted on the Paris Fashion Week FW20 runway this year. As the publication notes, the yellow shoe “features a shorter puffer upper that is encased in a Duck Boot-like shell.” It appears that the encasement is meant to protect the shoe from extreme weather conditions, while the “highly-serrated outsole” offers better grip for the wearer. The style is certainly unique, and was debuted along with an oversized slide design as well as a puffer boot design on the Yeezy Season 8 runway.

Even stranger than the beef between Bhad Bhabie and Skai Jackson, 5-year-old ZaZa (and her parents) kicked off a light-hearted feud against North West (and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West) yesterday after the stylish 6-year-old performed a rendition of ZaZa's song "What I Do" at Yeezy Season 8. The moment was insanely cute and garnered tons of reactions online, which is likely what ZaZa's parents were peeved about. Explaining that they would have appreciated receiving the proper credit, Kim K actually took the high road and shouted out ZaZa, tweeting that North hopes she is a fan of the remix. On the original post, singer Tinashe ended up leaving her mark by slightly shading North West, which has earned her lots of backlash, forcing her to respond herself.

"North west wishes," wrote Tinashe on ZaZa's post, clearly supporting the 5-year-old in the short-lived beef. The comment netted her a bunch of confused and angry comments from fans who wondered why she would dare shade a toddler. Tinashe took the opportunity to address the drama on Twitter.

"It was a fucking joke y’all seriously dragging it," wrote the pop star, replying to a fan who implied she was wrong for the comment. "Y’all really acting As if I personally reached out to the little girl like she even on the gram like I’m fucking sick of everyone being so damn self righteous Plssssssssssss."

Do you think that Tinashe should have kept her mouth shut on this?

Kanye West is overseas at the moment taking in Paris’ fashion week, which he participated in yesterday by unveiling season 8 of his Yeezy line that included a surprise performance from daughter North. Well ahead of the show, the Chicago legend caught up with Highsnobiety and a few other journalists to talk about his new line.

In his brief chat, Kanye went on to mention the entry point for fashion is still through t-shirts, and that he wanted to get away from that. So he did. ‘Ye mentioned that he stopped making merch and t-shirts months ago to focus on his opera. He adds that he “wasn’t pushing himself enough” as reason for the change.

“I stopped doing merch, like, four months ago, and then we started working on the opera because I wasn’t pushing myself enough,” West said. “We were doing $1 million a night in merch — I remember when I first started in fashion and we did the first Kanye collections, everyone kept saying, ‘Just do a T-shirt, The Row started with a T-shirt’ because they had to do this celebrity comparison. And we fought to not do T-shirts, and then I looked up and I was only doing T-shirts. So we stopped, and we started focusing on changing, making new shapes.”

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Later, Kanye talked about the experimentation of fabrics and where he can make a change. “The wool will be [from the sheep on my ranch]. We’re just looking at different ways to approach things. 90 percent of this collection is muslin in its original fabric. We’ve been looking at how we can create a suede effect or how we can dye it. This is all experimental. Each one of the pieces here is in its infant stage. They’re all new inventions and new approaches to apparel. Now I’m looking at them and thinking, where I can take them with their colors and forms.”

Elsewhere, Kanye talks about his architectural future & creative influence, which he says he helped make the “most iconic shoe of the past 15 years.” 

“We’ve presented so many things that have influenced color palettes and shapes of shoes, like the shape of the 350s that have become the most iconic shoe of the past 15 years. Now we have these new slides that we’re doing, and you’ll see that these shapes will start to affect other designers.”

Read all that & more in the interview with Highsnobiety right here.

Today marks the Paris Fashion Week debut of Yeezy Season 8, the latest collection derived from the mind of Kanye West. Enlisting a bunch of models to show off his newest designs, performance duties were kept close to home.

Usually, fashion designers call on some of the biggest acts of the moment to accompany their designs on the runway. Perhaps Roddy Ricch would be there to perform "The Box" or maybe Justin Bieber would perform a medley of his recent hits. Kanye West moves differently and, being an artist himself, he wasn't about to hand the spotlight to a competing rapper. Instead, his show was topped off by his own daughter, North West, performing an original song for the audience.

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After sending fake rattlesnake eggs and sage as part of the invitations for Yeezy Season 8, Kanye West passed the microphone to his 6-year-old daughter to spit some pure bars for the crowd of hundreds. 

"Walk through the streets, yeah/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah," sang Nori, showing glimpses of star charisma. "Cool, cute, cool, yeah!/What are those!?" she continued, eliciting ahhs and oohs from the crowd.

Watch the clip below, which has been a highlight of the show thus far. Do you think North West will become a star just like her dad?

Kanye West brought the Sunday Service magic to Paris Fashion Week, turning the Bouffes du Nord theatre in the city of love into his own spiritual oasis. While Kanye may be a fashion designer himself, Paris Fashion Week served as more than just an opportunity for him to debut Yeezy Season 8. The multi-hyphenate innovator orchestrated a performance of the gospel collective at the famous Parisian theatre, and it looks like the event was a major success.

Kanye West has been somewhat low key (for Kanye) as of late, but it looks like Yeezy season is approaching. The hip-hop icon made a surprise announcement email to several industry insiders inviting them to Yeezy Season 8 in Paris for Fashion Week. As reported by Women’s Wear Daily, West sent out invites to a  Sunday Service which will take place in Paris, and a few moments later he sent out another invite for Yeezy Season 8.

It is unclear if West will be unveiling an entire line, or if he will just be showing off limited works. West, who has long gone against the grain, is rushing into Paris while many others are heading out. Several designers have canceled their Paris Fashion Week plans due to the spread of Coronavirus. Masha Ma, Maison Mai, Uma Wang, Shiatzy Chen, Agnés B and more have abandoned Paris Fashion Week. Other designers and brands have found a way to mix medical face masks into their entire. 

The Yeezy Season 8 show will take place on March 2, and Sunday Service will take place the day before. The gospel presentation is set to start at 9 AM, and will presumably feature guests. West’s switch to gospel music has been working well for his career, which suffered a public bludgeoning after supporting Trump.