Kanye West shows love for Nike by wearing the brand’s gloves and shoes alongside wife Bianca Censori at Milan Fashion Week… amid feud with Adidas
Kanye West rocked Nike gear at Milan Fashion Week amid his dispute with Adidas.
The 46-year-old rapper was spotted wearing Nike shoes and gloves next to his scantily clad wife Bianca Cesori at the Marni show on Friday.
Dressed in an all-black leather ensemble, the Flashing Lights hitmaker modeled the brand’s black high-tops and black gloves with the iconic white swoosh symbol.
His partnership with Adidas, which was said to be almost as lucrative as Nike’s decades-long partnership with Michael Jordan, ended nearly two years ago amid his anti-Semitic rants, prompting the discontinuation of Kanye’s lucrative line of Yeezy shoes.
Adidas said in a statement at the time that it “does not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech.”
Kanye West rocked Nike gear with his wife Bianca Censori at Milan Fashion Week amid his dispute with Adidas.
Kanye shows off his Nike sneakers next to Renzo Rosso
Weeks prior to his split with the sneaker company, Kanye had made anti-Semitic comments in interviews and on social media, including an October Twitter post in which he said he would soon be going to “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” an apparent reference to the U.S. . scale for defense readiness conditions, known as DEFCON.
Executives estimate Adidas owned $1.3 billion worth of Yeezy inventory when it broke off the partnership. The company has started selling them in limited batches.
The outing comes after Kanye was ridiculed for his Yeezy sock shoes, the first release independent of Adidas after the company cut ties.
The backlash caused Kanye to launch a series of baseless claims on social media, saying: “Adidas copied all my stuff and treated me like shit. Adidas is suing me for $4 billion and selling my shoes without paying me, and they say I misused the marketing fund while I was in marketing.”
The unrest comes after insiders claimed Kanye and Bianca’s relationship has improved ‘dramatically’ – thanks to the highly lucrative success of Kanye’s latest album, Vultures.
DailyMail.com previously revealed that the couple, who tied the knot in December 2022, had a huge row after Bianca warned the rapper not to make anti-Semitic comments during a listening event for his album earlier this month.
The couple’s huge blowup is said to have been the reason she failed to show up at his event and afterparty in New York on February 9, with sources now revealing their relationship was ‘hanging by a thread’ and claiming Bianca had started. questioning everything.”
‘She knows [what] her husband is on everyone’s mind – and his recent outbursts made her question everything,” an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively.
“But then suddenly his album is a success and she is a loving, adoring and supportive woman again.”
The source explained how dire things had been in recent months, adding, “Kanye and Bianca’s marriage was hanging by a thread. Everyone in her life wants her to leave him and she is aware of that.’
However, Bianca’s apparent change of heart has left her loved ones worried that the designer is only staying in the marriage for financial reasons – views that were only further fueled when Kanye revealed that his brand, Yeezy, had made $19.3 million with a Super Bowl ad. .
Kanye rocked Adidas clothes in 2017
Bianca went braless in the incredibly revealing garment which also had a waistband
The beauty also showed off a new hairstyle as she sported a dark black bob as she socialized with her husband at the event
Kanye, 46, wore a black jacket and matching pants as he shared a kiss with Bianca as they posed for the cameras
Bianca put on a leggy display in a pair of pink boots and joined her husband in the front row during the show
Bianca showed off her stunning figure in the very revealing outfit
Bianca made sure all eyes were on her during the show with her daring look
“To her friends and family, this just screams what her real motivation behind all of this is: his money,” the insider said.
‘They are now in a partnership and she has made a fortune herself thanks to all the work she has done for her husband – as an architect for his brand and as a model.’
They added, “No one doubts that she loves him, because she does. But the dynamics of their marriage have certainly improved dramatically thanks to the success of his album and the massive new influx of wealth it has brought.”
DailyMail.com contacted representatives of the couple for comment.
The couple’s financial health looked less promising last week when Kanye, who now goes by Ye, claimed he was “two months away” from bankruptcy after reportedly losing $2 billion in one day when Adidas canceled its partnership with Yeezy finished.
The rapper famously lost his billionaire status in 2022 when a number of brands terminated his lucrative contracts over his anti-Semitic outbursts and were outraged by his decision to promote White Lives Matter T-shirts at his Paris Fashion Week show.
Last week, Kanye explained to fans that he put “everything I had” into his $7 million Super Bowl ad for his fashion brand and new album Vultures.
‘I’m just being honest with you. I was only two months away from going bankrupt, and I put everything I had into it [the album and the Super Bowl advert],’ he told TMZ.
The couple were all smiles as they took their seats
Kanye was seen whispering in Bianca’s ear
Kanye said that when his wealth started to plummet, he moved to Italy with his wife.
“We moved to Italy,” he said. “We moved to the factories and survived. We survived the cancellation. We’re number one again.’
Last Thursday afternoon, the rapper’s new album – which his daughter North posted about in a now-deleted TikTok – was removed from Apple Music and iTunes, where the song Carnival was at No. 1 on the Top 100: Global chart.
The move was revealed amid reports that the distributor was working to remove it from all streaming services after Kanye allegedly uploaded it to several platforms without permission, according to Billboard.
The album – which went to number one in 100 countries – was first hit by streaming problems last week when Spotify removed the song Good (Don’t Die) due to claims of ‘copyright infringement’ made by Donna Summer’s estate.
As of now, the album remains accessible on Spotify, but the song Good (Don’t Die) is currently unplayable.
Vultures Volume 1 marks the first part of a planned trilogy. After this, the second and third projects are scheduled for release in March and April respectively.
Before the album’s release, Kanye was reportedly furious after the livestream of a listening event at Chicago’s United Center was interrupted when he spit out the lyrics: “And I’m still Crazy, Bipolar, Anti-Semite / And I’m still the king .’
Sources previously claimed that Bianca urged Kanye to apologize for any offense caused by his numerous anti-Semitic comments. He wrote it in Hebrew and shared it on his Instagram
Bianca allegedly warned him about singing the problematic lyrics, and as a result she refused to attend the planned events in New York the following evening.
In December, Bianca reportedly pushed her husband to apologize to the Jewish community because she was “tired” of having to “babysit” him and feared his behavior would endanger them.
“She told him his recent behavior was unacceptable and that he should apologize because he was endangering them and setting a terrible example for his children,” a source told DailyMail.com at the time.
“Bianca is really tired of his attention seeking and she knows this isn’t who he really is, but it gives her the impression that she’s anti-Semitic, which is so far from the truth.
“She has a lot of Jewish friends who she loves very much, and he knows that.”
Kanye acknowledged his behavior on Instagram, telling his 19 million followers in Hebrew: “I deeply regret any pain I may have caused.”
His apology came after a series of unhinged and insulting outbursts, including his anti-Semitic lyrics in Dubai and praising Hitler at a listening party in Sin City in December.