The platinum-selling rapper with a penchant for fashion design is rumoured to be looking to further his label in the capital.
BY Olivia Bergin | 30 December 2011
Kanye West at the finale of his spring/summer 2012 collection during Paris Fashion Week Photo: AFP
Kanye West's fashion design debut may have been met with mixed reactions (you can read what our fashion editor, Lisa Armstrong, made of it here ), but the Gold Digger rapper isn't going to give up that easily.
Rumours are swirling that the Los Angeles-based rapper is seeking a studio in London from which to base his fashion label, DW.
Kanye West's spring/summer 2012 collection in pictures
"He's close to the lecturers and students at the Central Saint Martins College and being in London means he can stop by for advice any time," a source told The Sun.
West presented his debut ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week in October, hiring top models Jourdan Dunn, Karlie Kloss and Anja Rubik to show off slashed bandage skirts and navel-plunging dresses.
Kanye West's Paris Fashion Week debut was rap with a capital-C
London-based knitwear designer Louis Goldin and Royal College of Art graduate Katie Eary were hired to ghost-design the collection, while Central Saint Martins College fashion MA professor Louise Wilson's name was also thrown into the frame.
With London regarded as the capital of creativity, perhaps London fashion Week could provide the perfect home West and DW are looking for?
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