The (Re)Education of Kanye West

On the last day of New York Fashion Week, as the likes of Terry J. Lundgren and Huma Abedin shifted in their seats at Ralph Lauren’s 10 a.m. show, Kanye West emerged from backstage and quietly took his place. Though he had been ubiquitous in the preceding weeks, it was surprising to see him here, as he usually gravitates toward designers of more recent vintage, and there was something different about his appearance, too. He looked, well, sedate. The hostile Kanye who’d snarled at a reporter for asking about his “damn kids” was gone. You might even say he was happy. In the insular, clubby world of fashion, he was sitting in what passes as its royal box, to the left of Ricky Lauren in the section reserved for the family. Finally, as far as the kingmakers were concerned, Kanye, designer, had arrived, and he knew it. “I think he’s the greatest designer of our time,” he gushed about his host, before adding a telling correction, “The most important designer of our time.” When West presented his first women’s collection, he came across as a clueless parvenu transparently trying to cash in on his celebrity for design credibility. Critics were not kind. A

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