Kanye West’s latest bullying campaign—and the resulting backlash—played out almost exclusively on Instagram. Read the latest from delia_cai:
’s global contributing fashion editor at large who was also at the show, described the stunt on Instagram Stories as “indefensible behavior,” later adding that while she could see how West might have considered the shirt something of a “Duchampian” provocation, “It didn’t land, and it was deeply offensive, violent and dangerous.”
It’s no surprise that West, who officially changed his name to Ye last year, would get prickly over the criticism, but he went on to single out Karefa-Johnson on his own Instagram by posting a photograph of the stylist, churlishly announcing, “This is not a fashion person” and mocking Karefa-Johnson’s shoes .
For anyone attempting to keep up with the whole debacle, it required a good deal of toggling back and forth on Instagram accounts over several days, not to mention a knack for catching all the said posts, Stories, and comments before they expired, or were deleted. Amid the dramatics, I found myself thinking about the singularly critical role that this one platform has played in facilitating and documenting both the connections and clashes between celebrities and everyone else.
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