What is it like to dress Kimye? As if British GQ read our minds, the magazine posed that very question to Riccardo Tisci, head of Givenchy and BFF of the Wests. Surprisingly, it wasn’t all that glamorous prior to the #WORLDSMOSTTALKEDABOUTCOUPLE’s Vogue cover.
Tisci, who outfitted the then-expecting pair in an iconic ensemble for the 2013 Met Gala (remember Kim’s rose print dress with built-in gloves? JK, how could you not?), recalls for the magazine the backlash he received when he first started dressing them—and how Kim is not at all what you’d expect.
“When they started dating Kanye came up to me and said we should all get dinner, so they came to Paris to visit me. I like the girl. She’s cool, she’s also different from what people think. She’s very special. Very beautiful. Then I found out from fashion people that people didn’t like her, people didn’t want anything to do with her. I’m a Leo and Italian and very proud, so I didn’t change my way about them. I invited them to the show, started doing special projects with them, dressing them and I got killed so much. But that’s what you do to be a friend, to be real—you don’t care about what people are saying.”
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Given all of his divisive monologues, Kanye is a living embodiment of that last point. (It’s no wonder he and Tisci are best friends.) Perhaps not surprisingly then, Tisci and Kimye had a kind of high school reunion moment while preparing for their wedding, when they found out that—after Anna Wintour’s cosign—the rest of the fashion world was clamoring to dress them, especially for their wedding.
“By the time they came to get married, about 50% of fashion people had changed their minds about her, [and] about Kim and Kanye [as a couple], when the Vogue America cover came out. It was sweet because she could have asked a lot of people at that time—but she still asked me.”
Kimye’s loyalty to Tisci also explains why he’d give a one-year-old a front row seat at his fashion show. (Granted that one-year-old is, as Karl Lagerfeld proclaims, The Future of Fashion.)
You can read the rest of the fascinating interview over at GQ, where Tisci also talks about how he had no idea who the Kardashians were before one of them started dating Kanye (!!!), and his relationship and collaboration with Nike.
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