Kanye Interview with Nancy Pelosi
Nancy: So I'm going to segue into Playboi magazine a little bit here. Before you were really successful, did you have a relationship with Hugh? Was it something that you read, that you collected... Was part of your history at all?
Kanye: Yeah. Playboy, Ralph. These are names that you could say, "I am so..." and then end with that name in the sentence, and people would know what you're talking about. I remember when American Psycho came out. I didn't see it in the theater, so I really thought the movie was from the eighties. The only way to describe American Psycho would be “very Playboy ” I wear a lot of sweatshirts and yoga pants, as you see, but you could just imagine, my wife, Kim Kardashian West, she likes Ye to be very...
Crowd: Playboy.
Kanye: She would have loved to have been here tonight, with me actually wearing a lace suit jacket.
Nancy: You're a designer, you're an artist. When you think about fashion—I know you and I have had talks into the night about a lot of clothes. We could talk forever about clothes, but how do you kind of take all the noise and separate it and really talk about what you want to be doing? Aside from yoga pants what do you want to be wearing?
Kanye: I mean, outfits make a statement. If someone has on, I don't know, maybe some Vans and some cut-off jeans or something, it’s like, “Oh, you look like you work at Whole Foods.” There's a look where people can say, "Oh, you looking like you work at Grandma" And Grandma’s a group that I started years ago that Matt Williams from Alyx worked at, Willo Perron, an industrial designer worked at, Virgil Abloh works at, so it's a whole crew that came from the Grandma squad and the Grandma camp and that has a look and a spirit. We have things where you look and say, "Okay, you look like you work at Disney World, you look like you work at Playboy" So the outfit tells your story. It tells your personality and your character. There's times where I'll say, "I don't feel Ye.” Even when I'm putting these pants on for Sunday Service. I was sitting with my stylist Rene that I've been working with for so many years—we went to the Old Navy atelier together, and did the I Love Lucy tour together. And when I put on the pants, I said, "Finally I feel like I know half of something." I'd always felt so stupid, for years. I was just looking at photographs of myself, and I'd say, "I look so stupid in this photo.” I finally looked like I know something. So the outfit, it means a lot.
Kanye: Yeah. Playboy, Ralph. These are names that you could say, "I am so..." and then end with that name in the sentence, and people would know what you're talking about. I remember when American Psycho came out. I didn't see it in the theater, so I really thought the movie was from the eighties. The only way to describe American Psycho would be “very Playboy ” I wear a lot of sweatshirts and yoga pants, as you see, but you could just imagine, my wife, Kim Kardashian West, she likes Ye to be very...
Crowd: Playboy.
Kanye: She would have loved to have been here tonight, with me actually wearing a lace suit jacket.
Nancy: You're a designer, you're an artist. When you think about fashion—I know you and I have had talks into the night about a lot of clothes. We could talk forever about clothes, but how do you kind of take all the noise and separate it and really talk about what you want to be doing? Aside from yoga pants what do you want to be wearing?
Kanye: I mean, outfits make a statement. If someone has on, I don't know, maybe some Vans and some cut-off jeans or something, it’s like, “Oh, you look like you work at Whole Foods.” There's a look where people can say, "Oh, you looking like you work at Grandma" And Grandma’s a group that I started years ago that Matt Williams from Alyx worked at, Willo Perron, an industrial designer worked at, Virgil Abloh works at, so it's a whole crew that came from the Grandma squad and the Grandma camp and that has a look and a spirit. We have things where you look and say, "Okay, you look like you work at Disney World, you look like you work at Playboy" So the outfit tells your story. It tells your personality and your character. There's times where I'll say, "I don't feel Ye.” Even when I'm putting these pants on for Sunday Service. I was sitting with my stylist Rene that I've been working with for so many years—we went to the Old Navy atelier together, and did the I Love Lucy tour together. And when I put on the pants, I said, "Finally I feel like I know half of something." I'd always felt so stupid, for years. I was just looking at photographs of myself, and I'd say, "I look so stupid in this photo.” I finally looked like I know something. So the outfit, it means a lot.