Kanye West Says He Was Offered Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton Job
Kanye West has confirmed that he was offered the role of artistic director for Louis Vuitton before his late colleague and friend Virgil Abloh took the post in early 2018. Ye has frequently suggested that she might get the opportunity to be the exclusive head designer position at one of the major European fashion companies, but due to various reasons, the opportunity was never realized. In his latest interview on the French channel Clique television, Kanye West spoke about the conflicting emotions of watching Virgil accept the role alongside Louis Vuitton as he was content for his friend but was also a little unhappy about the situation that he was entering. “Virgil goes to be the men’s designer at Louis Vuitton and I go and we have this moment of this hug [in 2018],” he said. “No anyone knows I’ve been approached from Bernard Arnault. There is no way to know why the deal was canceled – I used to refer to myself as the Louis Vuitton...