{"id":18117,"date":"2012-12-13T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18117"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:22:02","slug":"kanye-west-and-fashion-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/kanye-west-and-fashion-amnesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West and Fashion Amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big moments of last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/12\/15871197-rock-legends-roger-waters-bruce-springsteen-and-more-perform-at-the-sandy-benefit-show?lite\" target=\"_blank\">12\/12\/12 Concert for Sandy Relief <\/a>&#8212; for Twitter, at least &#8212; was <a href=\"http:\/\/thelook.today.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/13\/15884603-kanye-wests-leather-skirt-steals-the-show-at-sandy-benefit?lite\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West&#8217;s leather skirt<\/a>. Peeps couldn&#8217;t stop talking about it. Yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vladtv.com\/blog\/69466\/kanye-west-rocks-skirt-at-watch-the-throne-concert_____\/#video_image-61797\" target=\"_blank\">it was also<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gossiponthis.com\/2011\/11\/11\/kanye-west-wears-leather-skirt-while-watching-the-throne-with-jay-z-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">the subject of much chatter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiphopsince1987.com\/fashion\/kanye-west-wears-a-skirt-to-the-watch-the-throne-tour-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\">and news coverage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/08\/kanye-west-wears-leather-_n_1082672.html\" target=\"_blank\">last year when<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/realtalkny.uproxx.com\/2011\/10\/topic\/topic\/pictures\/poppin-or-floppin-kanye-west-wears-a-skirt-during-the-watch-the-throne-tour-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye wore what looks like the same skirt<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/glamazonsblog.com\/2011\/11\/in-honor-of-kanye-west-s-watch-the-throne-skirt-5-men-we-love-in-skirts\/\" target=\"_blank\">for his Watch the Throne tour with Jay-Z<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18118\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-wendy-wore-a-dinner-and-two-shows\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18118\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18118 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kanyejz2crop.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kanyejz2crop.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kanyejz2crop-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My own blurry 2011 photo of Kanye&#8217;s skirt. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s up with the fashion amnesia? Do we have to be shocked &#8212; SHOCKED! &#8212; all over again if he wears the skirt next year too? Try some ginseng, y&#8217;all. To me, this is as much of a fashion scandal as <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/usher-was-at-the-bet-awards-nick-rhodes-is-an-icon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Usher&#8217;s neon sneakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also be happy if everyone retired the Kanye West\/Kim Kardashian\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY\" target=\"_blank\">gold digger<\/a> jokes. Whatever you may think of her, (a) she&#8217;s got money of her own and (b) you&#8217;re not the first one to make that joke! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big moments of last night&#8217;s 12\/12\/12 Concert for Sandy Relief &#8212; for Twitter, at least &#8212; was Kanye West&#8217;s leather skirt. Peeps couldn&#8217;t stop talking about it. Yet, it was also the subject of much chatter and news coverage last year when Kanye wore what looks like the same skirt for his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/kanye-west-and-fashion-amnesia\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,581,42,122],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-concerts","9":"category-music","10":"category-skirts","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18121,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions\/18121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}