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Kanye West’s “Affordable” Adidas Originals Line Is Actually Very Expensive

He’s no champion of the people, he's been lying

Mar 9, 2015 14:33 GMT  ·  By
Kanye West introduces Adidas Originals collection at New York Fashion Week
   Kanye West introduces Adidas Originals collection at New York Fashion Week

When Kanye West accepted the invitation from the Oxford Union Guild to come to Oxford and meet with journalists, faculty and students to talk about his plans as a designer, he proclaimed himself a champion of the masses, one that would bring beauty to the people, taking it back from big fashion designers selling it as luxury.

He also boasted of wanting to deliver high-quality products at an attainable price, to create a line that would be halfway between art / high-fashion and practicability. Those were just empty statements, it turns out.

Kanye’s clothing is very expensive, as it happens

High Snobiety obtained pricings for some of the items in the new Kanye West collection for Adidas Originals, the one that includes oversized sweaters with huge holes in them, oversized hoodies, leggings, leg warmers, bomber jackets and bulletproof vests. If you ever happen to be in the line of fire, you will surely want to be protected by a fashionable item of this kind.

No matter how much Kanye talked about accessibility and catering for the average Joe and Jane, and of bringing beauty to the masses (his exact quotes are available in the tweets below), he still priced all items in his collection very high.

So while Kanye might think that only a car should cost $5,000, not a piece of clothing, he’s actually ok if you buy one from him priced at $3,800, which is how much the camo jacket wife Kim Kardashian wore at the show costs.

So much for affordable fashion.

Entry-level items like hoodies and sweatshirts cost around €390 ($420), while knitwear is priced between €800 and €1,500 ($860 and $1,600). Outerwear is the most expensive, with items selling between €1,600 and €3,500 ($1,700 and $3,800).

Accessories are just as expensive: the brand new Duck Boot is €450 ($500), which is the same amount you’d have to fork out for a canvas backpack. For the leather version, you have to be prepared to part with €650 ($700), while a leather back is €800 ($870).

The quality is top-notch

Not that this is an excuse for Kanye’s lies, but all items are said to be of very high quality, which would explain the pricing, the same media outlet continues.

All items are manufactured in Italy, with the wool and the leather used for them being of top quality, the kind you could only expect to find in high-fashion products.

This basically means that Kanye is just like the very people he was so bitterly criticizing, so either he deliberately lied in all his statements to date or he really is that disconnected from reality as to have no idea that the items he branded as affordable are actually expensive.

Which do you think it is? Let us know in the comments section below.