Fashionista Anna Wintour criticised for describing Kanye West’s clothing line as ‘migrant chic’
West was debuting his new album, The Life Of Pablo , and his Adidas Yeezy Season 3 fashion line.
Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, has been criticised for using the phrase “migrant chic” to describe a Kanye West fashion show.
During an appearance on the US TV talk show Late Night With Seth Meyers, Wintour discussed pictures of her sitting alone in a VIP area at West’s event at Madison Square Garden, in New York. West was debuting his new album, The Life Of Pablo , and his Adidas Yeezy Season 3 fashion line at the event.
Wintour explained she had arrived early and was “waiting for the Kardashians to arrive en masse – and Jay-Z. So, eventually, they did turn up and The Life Of Pablo concert started and the migrant chic fashion show started and they were both wonderful,” she said, in an apparent reference to the clothing on show.
She was criticised for her choice of words, with some people posting messages on social media. One Twitter user wrote: “Apparently migrant chic is becoming a thing in the fashion world. Do we really need to spell out how insensitive that is?”
Another tweeted: “Anna Wintour called Yeezy season 3 Migrant Chic. Even though Chic is a good thing, the word Migrant can be taken any other ways.”
In October last year, a photographer took down images he had posted from a fashion shoot that took its inspiration from the scenes of refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe.