On Yeezy Season 3, or maybe Kanye is this generation's Warhol...but probably, most very likely not.

Darlings -On Yeezy Season 3:Darlings, do you think that Kimye has something on Anna Wintour? Do you think that they found a picture of her eating a donut and have threatened to share it with all of society if she doesn't publicly support them in all of their ridiculous cultural initiatives. Because I can see no other reason that #HBIC Anna Wintour would sit at Madison Square Garden for two hours and watch women in dystopian spandex stand still, follow "rules" (see below) and listen to Kanye's new album in it's entirety. No other reason than the threat of public humiliation through carb consumption.Darlings, you know how I feel about the Kardashian klan - I applaud them for figuring out a way to make enough money that they will never have to worry about money by doing the things that they are good at - being pretty, being insane and playing the system.I find people that go on and on about how they are what's wrong with American absolutely dreadful. In fact, I think that they really and truly define the American Dream, just like any other great/polarizing American family - The Jacksons, The Kennedys...the only difference is that they won't need an unfortunate mini series made about them, because they've been proactive and have done it for themselves.But just because I think the Kardashians have it all figured out, doesn't mean that I think that Kanye deserves any of the fame he has in the fashion world. I can't really comment on his music because I just don't have the critical chops for that (although I will say, darlings, check out the below mashups).[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/users/204804423" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]I'm also not going to make any critical comments on the fashion itself, because although it is not to my taste and in fact, looks like my gym wardrobe if I used RIT brown to dye all of it, I imagine that a lot of people said similar things about Andy Warhol to what I'm thinking about Kanye - it's not fashion, it takes no talent, it is political, not fashion. Well I guess now you know how I feel.But darlings, Warhol was actually doing something different. He was a renaissance man before it was de rigeur to be a renaissance man. And his work changed the perception of the mundane into something grander, a reason for "stopping to smell the roses." And although he really did foreshadow our generation of "me" with his famous quote "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes," Warhol himself seemed to often be on the sidelines of his mass, to be the most passive one in the group.Warhol as a new world authority was so much different than Kanye's desire for authority.“Warhol [was] among the great masters of passive power. Although it proclaimed its independence at every opportunity, the youth culture of the Sixties was by and large composed of very dependent people who couldn’t bear to face that fact...In his passive presence, security and recognition seemed to make no demands. Warhol dominated all, while seeming merely to look on. Sweetly and shyly, in the language of a five year old, he could make or break at will. As with a monarch, proximity to the famous presence was everything. And just as Warhol could bestow that presence, he could also take it away. Put it this way: Warhol became famous by ceasing to be a person and becoming instead a presence. He became a phenomenon; the phenomenon Andy Warhol, who in his muteness and passivity seemed to be a being without needs. (Stargazer: The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol, Stephen Koch)

So let's talk about the man himself, not his fashion, not his thoughts on Taylor Swift -because that's what his real passion is. Himself.

Honestly, darlings, he believes he  himself should be the next creative director of Hermes so that he can "bring more beauty to the world," has chosen to only shine the spotlight on himself through this latest endeavor.First and foremost, choosing to host a fashion show at Madison Square Garden could possibly the most narcissistic thing I've ever heard - especially considering that most shows are cramped and uncomfortable and certainly haven't shared a stage with some of the greatest talents of the last century.Because fashion shows are not really for entertainment, they are for business. Before they became the place where celebrities got photographed taking photographs of the show, they were places for editors and buyers to come understand the next seasons trends, to educate themselves so they could educate their readers, their customers.And darlings, I'm not stuck in history, I know that the purpose of a fashion show has evolved from Coco Chanel's inaugural idea of clothes looking better on women than hangers to the travesty that is The Victoria's Secret fashion show.So for someone to say that he'd like to be creative director of one of the most important fashion houses of our life, he has to learn to be a creative director of a fashion house, not a curator of his own life and talents. They are not the same thing. This was not a fashion show, it was a show of narcissism. It was a way for him to be the center of attention, to pay (or have Adidas pay) his way to a mic where he got to name drop all of the people who give him any cache as a fashion professional.The poor proletariat that actually paid for a ticket (like thousands, darlings) to this mess may have expected a concert or something. And instead they were treated to this new album, played from a laptop and a bunch of women acting as an example of what you need to be able to do in order to afford rent in New York City.It's a shame because I think that if he stuck to doing the things that people think he's good at - music, random acts of scene stealing - it would make what he does do all that much better. It's kind of like when J.Lo creates a line for Kohls. You know what J.Lo? Shake your booty, sing some tunes, look way too good for your age. But don't half ass a line for Kohls where the seams are already coming undone before you even get to the pastel haired teen asking you if you have any coupons (ALWAYS).Look, darlings, creativity is creativity. And even though I loathe this guys narcissism, it's completely possible that he just feels like he is too good to contain within his own system and needs to share ALL of his thoughts with the world (I mean, same could be said for me). And I'm not going to feel bad for opining on his showing. But I do feel bad for opining on his desire to create if in fact it does come from a good place.Perhaps I am most critical of this event because it is so indicative of the world in which we live - the world where being good at just one thing is not enough. The world where success is measured by the amount of names you can drop. Where just achieving is no longer enough - over achievement is the new average.And where you apparently need to go into 53 million dollars of debt in order to do what you want to do.  So yea, Kanye, he's just like you and me, darlings.xoxo lcf