Kanye West wants to be the 'Steve Jobs of the Gap'. The rapper revealed in an interview with Style.com for New York Fashion Week that he once dreamed of being the head creative director of the clothing chain.
'Perhaps this is a bit of a demo tape,' he joked in the interview as he leaned to speak directly into the tape recorder. 'When I say Steve Jobs of the Gap, as I talk to the people at the Gap right now I’m not talking about a capsule. I’m talking about full Hedi Slimane creative control of the Gap is what I would like to do.'
Slimane is the head creative director for Yves Saint Laurent, who while West respects his work, he also said in the interview their prices are 'unfair'. Throughout the one-on-one, the musician name checked the late Jobs' company Apple, as well as Pixar, a number of times, clearly keen to position himself as clear head of his fashion field yet while remaining accessible to the masses.
He insisted the graduates of the great design schools dreamed of one day designing for Paris runways, and were afraid to create for the mass market because it was frowned upon - but now he has broken down the barrier between the two.
-DM
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