“Since we’ve been defined as futurists, we will define what the future is,” Ye tells Vogue.
newest sunglasses have the rapper and designer’s daughter’s seal of approval. “I put these glasses on Chicago last night and she was like ‘these are my glasses now,’ she didn't want to take them off,” says Ye, speaking over the phone. It seems to mean a lot to him that she’s able to appreciate the YZY SHDZ. “She was able to throw shades in the air and they fell on the ground, and I wasn't running like ‘you’re going to break the prototype.
The style has been making rounds on social media—and were notably worn by Kim Kardashian and North West. Ye designed them with creative involvement from Balenciaga’s similarly mononymous designer Demna. “Bothand Demna worked on Yeezy season one, and now with losing Virgil, I wasn’t able to work with him when he was at Louis Vuitton, so that’s why I think it’s so important that me and Demna still get to work together.
“I can send them out to any modeling agency now and be employed for the top of my head only,” Knight says. Since the two have worked together on many projects including the short film, music video “24,” and the YZY SPLY website, Knight and Ye have built a rapport. “Unlike virtually any other person I’ve worked with, he very much wants to make sure he sees what he wants to see.
They can make anyone—be it Lil Uzi Vert or Lisa Rinna—look like they’ve landed from the year 3022. Ye himself appears to have mixed feelings about the term “futuristic,” though. “Saying something is in the future takes out the accountability of it needing to exist in our reality and the fact that it’s 2022, and we don’t have the future we thought we were going to have,” he says. “Certain things are more futuristic, and a lot of things are less futuristic than we thought we would have.
Ye says that the conversations he, Swanepoel, and Knight had on set were centered around leaving a better world for future generations. “People are so quick to think it’s going to be so dystopian, but I feel it’s going to be James Turrell spaces, and Nick Knight photos, and foods from localized farms with no pesticides,” Ye says.While these images are—at their core—showcasing sunglasses, the collaborators involved spoke to me of a bigger vision.
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