Balenciaga fashion house cuts ties with Ye, according to report

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The Balenciaga fashion house has cut ties with Ye&comma; the rapper formerly known as Kanye West&comma; according to a news report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move came after several offensive comments from Ye&comma; including antisemitic posts that earned him suspensions from Twitter and Instagram&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist&comma;” parent company Kering told Women’s Wear Daily in response to a query&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company did not respond to multiple emails and calls from The Associated Press requesting comment&period; A representative for Ye also did not respond to a request for comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ye had collaborated in several areas with Balenciaga and its artistic director&comma; Demna Gvasalia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The label has also had an active relationship with Kim Kardashian&comma; Ye’s ex-wife&comma; who has appeared in their advertising campaigns and credits her former husband with introducing her to the brand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ye was recently blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He has also suggested slavery was a choice and called the Covid-19 vaccine the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mark of the beast”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After getting locked out of the social media platforms&comma; he has offered to buy right wing-friendly social network Parler&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During Paris Fashion Week&comma; the rapper walked as a model in Balenciaga’s ready-to-wear show — what designer Gvasalia at the time called an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;iconic moment”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was then seen at Givenchy’s collection wearing a Balenciaga-branded black tooth brace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ye was also criticised that week for wearing a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his Yeezy collection show in Paris and the shirt made an appearance on the runway itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre&comma; 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