8 Things We Learned From Kanye West & Kim Kardashian’s Harper’s Bazaar Cover Story [Photos]
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian cover the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar. The cover story is the usual sometimes deep (family) often times shallow (nude selfies) ruminations of the the notoriously loved and hated couple.
You know you’re about to get a gang of quotables when the byline reads: “By Carine Roitfeld and Photographs by: Karl Lagerfeld; Text by: Laura Brown; Creative Director: Stephen Gan.”
We took the time to peruse the story for the most interesting takeaways.
The Taylor Swift shade is flawless, while Kanye’s favorite song of all time is a rock joint.
LB: Favorite song of all time?
KW:“All Along the Watchtower.” The Jimi Hendrix cover.
KKW: I really like the song “Only One” [West with Paul McCartney].
LB: Favorite Taylor Swift song?
KW: For me? I don’t have one.
KKW: I was such a fan of hers
Don’t expect stuff in their crib to actually be theirs.
Kim click-clacks in, wearing a long, khaki Lycra dress—”a Yeezy sample”—and full, precise makeup. Kanye perches on a coffee table between two gigantic white couches. On the table are some art books: Annie Leibovitz, the architect Álvaro Siza, and oddly, one titled Great Stud-Farms of the World. “Huh?” Kanye says when I ask if, for any reason, he’s into stud farms.“Nah, that’s not our book.That’s for staging.”
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Photos: Courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar
Kanye wanted to say something controversial, and it was about his adidas sneakers.
LB: I’m ready.
KKW: Laura’s question was, What’s annoying?
KW: What designer on the planet can sell, consistently, 40,000 shoes. In two minutes?
KKW: One minute.
We’re going to say Yeezy was fibbing about his favorite body part of Kim’s.
Laura Brown: Okay! So, this is in no particular order. Kanye, your favorite body part—your own or Kim’s.
KW: Is the face a body part? My favorite body part of Kim’s: heart.
KKW: Awww, now I have to say the same. But of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I’m not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack. [Laughs.] And of Kanye’s? I have to say his heart. And I’ve always loved his legs.
Good answer, Yeezy.
Kim can smell cavities and Yeezy can spot the jig.
LB: Hidden talent? I don’t know if you guys hide your talents, but if you do …
KKW: I can smell when someone has a cavity. It’s a very specific smell—not a bad-breath smell—but something that is really strong.
KW: I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately.That’s just a warning. To everyone.
Remember when Yeezy said he was in debt? No more.
LB: Biggest insecurity?
KKW: I would say looking fat sometimes. I really do take it seriously. I try to do what I can and diet and stay in shape, and it does make me insecure when I’m heavy.
KW: I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.
KKW: Then you didn’t have any debt; it seemed to all figure it out.
When it comes to fashion, Yeezy is still the name drop king.
KW: It’s so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, “Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together.” And there are so many images of things that it’s almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount you’re seeing and carry it into one language. That’s why I’m always fighting either to have a house work with us or to head a house. It’s a lifestyle I can totally see: the future, modern Versailles, modern Versace, modern Calabasas, paparazzi, celebrity language. I just want to build a collection that’s around me and my wife and my kids. Because Kris and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.
LB: You’re saying you’ve got the power of the idea.
KW: The idea. I know I wasn’t allowed to go to fashion school; I can’t cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh…they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia’s studio that night and hung out. (And then Demna, as you probably know, he worked on Yeezy Season 1.) Anyway, I want to say a controversial thing for this article…
Kanye West is pretty self-aware as to why people may not like him and Kim.
KKW: I rented an island for his birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.
KW: You see, those are the type of statements that make people not like us, more so than the “I’m the best” statement. It’s more the “Oh, yeah, I just rented an island for his birthday …” You know in Meet the Parents, Owen Wilson’s character? All of our shit is like Owen Wilson’s character; he’s like, “This is when we jumped off Mount Everest, and we wore turtle flight suits or whatever.”
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