He's always worn ladies' things on occasion. So let's not get our panties in a twist about his “skirtgate” of 12-12-12.
At the 12-12-12 Sandy relief concert Wednesday night, Kanye West performed wearing a leather a-line skirt over his leather pants.
To go with his manly gold statement bracelet and wrist warmers, of course. Anyway, after this skirt appeared on stage, slung low on Kanye's hips over a pair of slim-fitting leather trousers, it took on a life of its own — via a fake Twitter feed full of uninventive jokes about him raiding Kim Kardashian's wardrobe. Yet Kanye has been perfectly open about his attraction to women's clothes in the past. In 2010 at New York Fashion Week, he told me he decided to wear a women's blouse to sit front row at the Philip Lim show: "This is a women's shirt [Phillip] had, and I just felt this color would be really, really nice on my skin."
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Kanye wearing ladies' Phillip Lim:
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Kanye also titillated the fashion community when he wore this women's Celine blouse in January.
With shiny mardi gras beads and bike chains around his neck.
Here's how that blouse looked on the runway.
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