Kanye West Only Wants "Multiracial" Models in His NYFW Show
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 3, 2016
Over the weekend, Kanye West caused a social-media frenzy when he tweeted the casting call for his upcoming Yeezy Season 4 show which is actually taking place today during this year's New York Fashion Week. The Fade singer stated that he was looking for "multiracial women only" in his model call. Understandably, people felt some type of way.
@kanyewest do they need to bring their https://t.co/ZJLx6HlVaq dna results to the call or.....
— Bri Malandro (@BriMalandro) September 3, 2016
Twitter of course was set ablaze with users angered by the ambiguous term "multiracial." What does multiracial even mean? Aren't we all, to some degree, multiracial? Doesn't a term, which we can only assume is akin to "mixed race," exclude those with darker or lighter skin tones? Was West calling for no white or Black people, just those somewhere in-between? And how, pray tell, did West plan to assess models' ethnic mix? (Refinery29)
Check out some of my fave Twitter reactions below!
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— Ethan Krane (@theEthanKrane) September 3, 2016
@kanyewest ..so no black women??
— @kanye (@kanye) September 3, 2016
A casting call for 'multiracial women only' how do you expect to determine that?
— DarkSkintDostoyevsky (@daniecal) September 3, 2016