In January 2022 the brand announced its collaboration with luxury fashion house Balenciaga, with the first collection from that line releasing the following month. Yeezy Gap was terminated two years after its announcement in September 2022 after a series of disagreements between West and Gap executives.

Kanye ended his 10-year collaborative deal with Gap last September after accusing them of not properly fulfilling the terms of their agreement. But before that, the 'Bound 2' hitmaker accused the firm of ripping off his ideas for their own designs.

Kanye West Accuses Gap of Copying Yeezy Gap x Balenciaga, Blasts Them on Social Media. Kanye West wants answers. The rapper accused Gap of copying designs from his Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collection.

While that last statement might be an exaggeration, it's true that both Yeezy sneakers and Yeezy x Gap have been popular ventures. On StockX, Yeezys are among the most popular sneaker brands. And the first drop of the Yeezy x Gap line gave Gap its single best e-commerce sales day in history, on June 8, 2021.

Gap Inc. is tightening its belt amid continuing losses and disappointing results across its portfolio. While some of the softness was due to consumer pullback on discretionary spending, the company is also struggling with its own failure to produce apparel people want, analysts said.

Kanye rarely does interviews or speaks to the media about his hijinks but made an exception for Bloomberg, to whom he explained his rationale for leaving adidas and GAP. "I made the companies money. The companies made me money," Ye said.

Adidas Yeezy (or just Yeezy) was a fashion collaboration between American rapper, designer, and entrepreneur Kanye West and German sportswear company Adidas. It offered sneakers in limited edition colorways, as well as shirts, jackets, track pants, socks, slides, lingerie and slippers.

Eight new pieces drop today, extending the darkly futuristic vision of Ye's work with Demna. Call it a hacking, a creative exchange, or, like longtime collaborators Kanye West and Balenciaga designer Demna Gvasalia, an engineering.

For decades, Gap was one of the most beloved retailers in the US and an emblematic part of American fashion and style. With its laid-back classics and iconic denim, the company became the go-to destination to obtain the effortless jeans-and-t-shirt look at an accessible price.

Gap Inc. (GPS) and Kanye West last month both announced they were terminating a 10-year partnership that was inked in 2020 with his fashion company Yeezy.

Adidas' decision to cut ties with Kanye West came after the rapper made some anti-Semitism remarks, leading to an uproar over social media platforms. Kanye West is known for his controversies in the United States and has made objectionable statements multiple times.

Hip-Hop Mogul and Gap Officially End Their Partnership. The Yeezy Gap apparel line deal, announced with much fanfare in 2020, was supposed to last 10 years and generate $1 billion in annual sales. The experiment in corporate disruption that was the partnership between Kanye West and Gap is officially over. Ye, as Mr.