News: Kanye West Talks Music and Clothing with T Magazine

Kanye West recently spoke with T Magazine about his new project and clothing line with Adidas. Take a look at what he had to say below.

On Fashion:

‘Before the Internet, music was really expensive. People would use a rack of CDs to show class, to show they had made it. Right now, people use clothes to telegraph that. I want to destroy that. The very thing that supposedly made me special — the jacket that no one could get, the direct communications with the designers — I want to give that to the world.

I dreamed, since I was a little kid, of having my own store where I could curate every shoe, sweatshirt and color. I have sketches of it. I cried over the idea of having my own store.’

On His role as a Celebrity:

‘I’m not a celebrity, I’m an activist. The fact that when I see truth it’s really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity. I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a supersmart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.’

I have this table in my new house, they put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked.

I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.’

Take a look at the behind-the-scenes video from T Magazine below and read the full article here.