If you turned off your computer for the weekend, didn’t check your phone and/or remained totally cut off from any and all Paris Fashion Week coverage, you may not have heard that Kanye West staged his first fashion show.  DW by Kanye West, named for the rapper’s late mother, debuted in the library of the Lycée Henri IV on the Left Bank of Paris. Beyoncé and Jay-Z did not sit front row, as rumored, but plenty of other A-list stars, like the Olsens, Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra, Azzedine Alaia and most top editors and buyers, did. West’s casting was equally as impressive. Eric Wilson reports that West called Chanel Iman the day before the show and asked her to fly in from new York to walk (cue the girlfriend rumors). Anja Rubik, Ruby Aldridge, Eniko Mihalik, Bambi Northwood-Blyth, Jourdan Dunn, Abbey Lee, Anna Selezneva, and Karlie Kloss joined Iman on the all-white runway. The critics, most of whom have sat by or near West at fashion shows over the past few years, are divided on whether it was great, an OK start, or a ill-fitting mess. We’re mostly concerned, given West’s penchant for wearing Céline shirts and Phillip Lim jackets, with what pieces he’ll wear first.
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