{"id":87260,"date":"2022-10-05T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/gigi-hadid-calls-out-ye-out-for-bullying-after-yzy-show\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T02:05:00","slug":"gigi-hadid-calls-out-ye-out-for-bullying-after-yzy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/gigi-hadid-calls-out-ye-out-for-bullying-after-yzy-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid Calls Out Ye Out for ‘Bullying’ After YZY Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It all started with Ye’s \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d T-shirts \u2014 which feature this slogan categorized as \u201chate speech\u201d by the Anti-Defamation League \u2014 on the back and a graphic of Pope John Paul II on the front. Ye himself wore the T-shirt, matching with guest Candace Owens, at his YZY 9 show during Paris Fashion Week, and the message caused editors to leave and others to speak out against the harmful phrase online.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m fuming,\u201d wrote Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, stylist and Vogue<\/em> contributing editor, on her Instagram Stories alongside a video of a Black model wearing the shirt on the runway. \u201cIndefensible behavior.\u201d She expanded her thoughts in subsequent Stories, writing in part that while she thinks she understood Ye’s intentions \u2014 \u201cHe thought it was duchampian\u201d \u2014 she does n’t think it was effective. \u201cHe was trying to illustrate a dystopian world in the future when whiteness might become extinct or at least would be in enough danger to demand defense,\u201d she wrote in messages to a friend, screenshotted and shared to Instagram. \u201cBut the danger is that, this very premise, the idea that white supremacy is in danger of extinction is what justifies mass incarceration, murder en masse, indeed even the advent of slavery,\u201d she continued in her messages. Adding more context to the messages on her stories, she called the shirt \u201cdeeply offensive, violent, and dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ye then began an indefensible bullying campaign against Gabriella Karefa-Johnson<\/a>\u201d by uploading three posts about Karefa-Johnson. In one post, which featured a photo of what appears to be the stylist out and about, showing off her style, Ye wrote, \u201cThis is not a fashion person You speak on Ye Ima speak on you Ask Trevor Noah.\u201d He then posted a close-up of her boots and brought in Vogue<\/em>‘s Anna Wintour, writing, \u201cI KNOOOOOOW ANNA HAAAATES THESE BOOTS.\u201d Wintour was, coincidentally, at the YZY show and has yet to comment publicly about Ye’s behavior.<\/p>\n

But Gigi Hadid has. She commented on one of his many posts, sticking up for Karefa-Johnson: \u201cYou wish u had a percentage of her intellect. You have no idea,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIf there’s actually a point to any of your shit she she might be the only person that could save u. As if the ‘honor’ of being invited to your show should keep someone from giving their opinion ..? lol. You’re a bully and a joke.\u201d Hadid also shared her support for Karefa-Johnson on her Instagram Stories, calling her \u201cone of the most important voices in our industry\u201d who could \u201cschool that disgraceful man in more ways than he knows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others spoke out as well. Ye posted a message, supposedly from fashion designer Mowalola Ogunlesi, that implored him to have a \u201creal conversation\u201d about the shirt instead of attacking Karefa-Johnson.<\/p>\n

Ye also took aim at Bernard Arneault, the man who heads LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, among other luxury brands. \u201cCan’t we talk about more important things like how late the show was or how Bernard Arnault killed my best friend,\u201d he wrote in a separate post, seemingly referring to Virgil Abloh. \u201cEveryone’s got a right to an opinion right there’s mine.\u201d Supreme creative director Tremaine Emory shared Ye’s post on his own Instagram page, calling him out: \u201cI gotta draw the line at you using Virgil’s death in your ‘ye’ is the victim campaign in front of your sycophant peanut algorithm gallery,\u201d he wrote . Emory then claimed that Ye once told his Yeezy employees that \u201cVirgil’s designs are a disgrace to the black community,\u201d suggesting they weren’t as close as Ye insisted. \u201cYe tell the ppl why you didn’t get invited to Virgil’s actual funeral,\u201d he wrote. \u201cKeep Virgil name out your mouth\u2026 Keep @gabriellak_j name out your mouth,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

As the industry reacts to Ye’s Instagram attacks, he posted one final message to his profile: a black graphic with the words \u201cWhen I said war I meant war.\u201d<\/p>\n