Kanye West’s low-key Yeezy Season 10 fashion show was held in Los Angeles earlier this week, and elements of it have been linked to Nazism.
The connection was made by Stem Player, the audio company who previously severed ties with Kanye in 2022 due to his antisemitic comments.
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Stem Player’s Instagram account posted a series of photos from the fashion show condemning Ye and making sure their audience understood they are no longer in business with the polarizing rap star.
One photo showed the skinhead models kneeling down behind a line of candles inside the empty warehouse where the show was held. They compared it to white nationalists carrying tiki torches during a march in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
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Another post featured Kanye’s wife, Bianca Censori, wearing a pair of white angel wings the day after the show, which they suggested represented the controversial German Reich coat of arms that Kanye donned on a T-shirt last year.
Finally, they wrote over a photo of a fake Donda Doves T-shirt setting the record straight: “Stem is not a part of this. If you found us through far right politics, this account isn’t for you. If you found us in other ways, clarification over and not needed. Back to building.”
Yeezy Season 10 came roughly seven months after Kanye West’s controversial Season 9 show in Paris where he donned a “White Lives Matter” shirt. The L.A. show was reportedly an “extremely low-key affair” with not much to offer on the clothing side. Ye reportedly wasn’t even in attendance.
Grainy live stream footage from the empty warehouse, however, did reveal that Frank Ocean’s Blonde track “Self Control” served as the show’s soundtrack.
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Kanye came under fire in 2022 for his string of antisemitic remarks, which was capped off by an appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars in December where he praised Hitler.
“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” Ye said. “I love everyone and Jewish people are not gonna tell me, you can love us and you can love what we’re doing to you with the contracts and you can love what we’re pushing with the pornography, and this guy who invented highways, who invented the very microphone I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I’m done with that.”
Reports surrounding Kanye’s fascination with Hitler began to leak out, with one claiming he wanted to name his 2018 album ye after the disgraced Nazi Germany leader, but was talked out of it.
Former TMZ employee Van Lathan also claimed that Ye professed his “love” for Hitler during his infamous 2018 interview on the channel, but those parts were edited out.
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A long line of entities have since severed ties with Kanye as a result of his controversial antisemitic remarks, including adidas, Gap, Balenciaga, Def Jam, CAA and more.
