Kanye West is shedding new light on why North was in tears before his recent fashion show. Or, least, whyhe thinks his 20-month-old daughter was crying.
“Maybe she was just scared for her daddy,” he tells i-D. “She just wanted people to stop being mean to her daddy. Because she knows that her daddy loves the world and just wants to make it a more beautiful place.” Indeed, West went from his much-criticized Grammys rant to debuting his highly-anticipated new Adidas collection, even though many still don’t take him seriously as a designer. Talk about pressure.
As Extreme Entertainment reported, much was made online about North crying before West’s runway presentation began, largely based on a photo of the tot seemingly wailing with Beyoncé and Anna Wintour next to her. It wasn’t actually the big deal many outlets made it out to be, and Beyoncé even later posted an Instagram photo from the event, hailing West’s little girl as “beautiful princess North.”
West and wife Kim Kardashian also brought North to Alexander Wang’s New York Fashion Show on Saturday, where she again cried a bit. Naturally, certain webloids are again sensationalizing the incident, and even dragging Nick Minaj into it, since she was the one sitting by North’s side this time. Of course, in actuality, Minaj wasn’t bothered in the least (after all, kids do cry, and North is hardly the first kid to be at Fashion Week), and afterward posted a photo of herself with the toddler on Instagram.
In a separate interview, West credits North and the Kardashian family for positively impacting his view on women, and notes how that in turn has helped his fashion perspective. “Before, when I drove down the street, I would see these brands and think they’re really desirable for a girl who would dream of one day walking in that runway show or something like that. And that’s a, you know, dated view and degrading to women, in a way,” he tells Complex.
West goes on, “Because when I was a single bachelor rapper, and with the access that I had, I realized that I wasn’t respecting women the way I needed to. God has an amazing way of teaching people, and literally for two years I lived with all alpha females and a daughter, you know? [Laughs] So I had to learn to really do what my mother taught me, and become the man she always knew I could be, and bow as a creative.”
The rapper brings up a recent photo of himself bending down to the floor to adjust Kardashian’s pant leg, and notes, “That’s what I want to do for the world.” He explains, “I want to get on my knees and fix everyone’s pant leg, if they’ll have me. If they’ll have me make that adjustment. I want to look at a festival and see what all the kids are wearing, and then say, ‘Hey I want them to feel like they’re wearing the exact same thing, but somehow just a more informed version.’
In other words, stop being mean to West, let him make you some clothes, and North will stop crying at fashion shows. Maybe.
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