Karla Otto, the PR firm in charge of the Kanye West account, confirmed to WWD yesterday that the rapper will not show a Spring 2013 collection in Paris this week. West has thus far shown two collections in Paris, one for Spring 2012, and another for Fall. His first showing was universally panned, with critics like The New York Times‘s Eric Wilson saying, “What Mr. West eventually showed was confusing…it was
obvious that most of the clothes suffered from a poor fit.”
His second offerings were better-received, although rather tepidly. So what does this mean for the Kanye West line? Karla Otto made no mention of whether the label will go kaput after this season.
West’s design efforts haven’t been wholly unsuccessful; the shoes he created for rising Australian designer Dion Lee‘s Spring and Fall 2012 collections were well-received, and those famous pearly Giuseppe Zanotti pumps from his Spring 2012 offerings have appeared in a few editorials.
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