West, Kanye

September 9, 2020

How ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Changed Everything

This week, the Kardashian-Jenner family announced that after 20 seasons, their namesake reality TV show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” would come to an end in […]
August 13, 2020

What Are Walter Van Beirendonck, Virgil Abloh and Kanye West Fighting About?

On Tuesday night, the rapper, designer and presidential candidate Kanye West passionately defended his longtime friend and former creative partner Virgil Abloh on Twitter. “Virgil can […]
February 23, 2020

Kanye, Out West

CODY, Wyo. — It’s surprising that a global celebrity who frequently self-identifies as the greatest artist living or dead has become an everyday presence in a […]
February 6, 2020

Kim Kardashian Has Learned Restraint

LOS ANGELES — When Kim Kardashian West says it, she’s not being funny. She doesn’t smile. She is professional and sincere, and that sincerity is worth […]
March 3, 2017

Vows: An Islamic Romance, Soundtrack by Kanye and Drake

Vows By BROOKE LEA FOSTER In fall 2013, Samir Nurmohamed wanted desperately to go out with Salimah Nooruddin. There was only one problem: He had decided […]
December 13, 2016

Interpreting Kanye West’s Blond ’Do

Kanye West, the rapper, fashion designer, showman and epic Twitter ranter, has maintained a low profile since canceling his “Saint Pablo” tour and being hospitalized in […]
September 8, 2016

Fashion Review: Selling the Experience: Tom Ford vs. Kanye West

The first two shows of New York Fashion Week weren’t shows at all. One was a piece of performance art; the other, an evening of dinner […]
September 8, 2016

Fashion Diary: Waiting for Kanye

If there were ever an audience primed for the cuckoo rigors of performance art, it is followers of fashion. Who understands duration better than those for […]
July 23, 2016

Taylor Swift Is Summering in Rhode Island. Locals Just Shake It Off.

WATCH HILL, R.I. — You can’t miss High Watch, a rambling, white clapboard 1920s “cottage” that sprawls atop the bluff that gives this town its name, […]