American rapper-turned-fashion designer Kanye West has been slammed online for selling his latest clothing collection out of trash bags.
According to Page Six, a New-York based Twitter user shared a photo showing dishevelled merchandise stuffed into large black garbage bags on the floor of a Gap store. It was captioned, “This is how they are selling Yeezy GAP.”
“The sales associate said Ye got mad when he saw they had [his clothes] on hangers” because “this is how he wanted it,” stated eyewitnesses, as per Page Six.
They added, “They won’t help you find [your] size. You just have to just dig through everything.”
The image sparked a major backlash, with several critics slamming West’s “fetish” of using homeless people as “fashion muses.”
“It’s everything that is wrong with billionaires, They no longer see the plight of people, they don’t see humans that are suffering, they see opportunities to be ‘edgy’ and profit from it…it’s disgusting,” the dissenter argued, reported Page Six.
One person wrote, “This gotta be a social experiment,” while another joked, “Finally, something to satisfy my instinct to burrow.”