Kanye West wore Nike gear at Milan Fashion Week amid his dispute with Adidas.
The 46-year-old rapper was seen wearing Nike shoes and gloves alongside his scantily clad wife Bianca Cesori during the Marni show on Friday.
Dressed in an all-black leather ensemble, the Flashing Lights hitmaker modeled the brand’s high-top sneakers and black gloves with its iconic white symbol.
His partnership with Adidas, believed to be almost as lucrative as Nike’s decades-long partnership with Michael Jordan, ended nearly two years ago amid his anti-Semitic rants, discontinuing Kanye’s lucrative Yeezy shoe line.
In a statement at the time, Adidas said it “does not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other type of hate speech.”
Kanye West wore Nike clothing with his wife Bianca Censori at Milan Fashion Week amid his dispute with Adidas.
Kanye shows off his Nike sneakers with Renzo Rosso
In the weeks leading up to his breakup with the sneaker company, Kanye had made anti-Semitic comments in interviews and on social media, including a Twitter post in October in which he said he would soon do ‘death with 3 against the JEWISH PEOPLE,’ an apparent reference to the US defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
Executives estimated that Adidas had $1.3 billion worth of Yeezy stock when it broke off its partnership. The company has started selling them in limited batches.
The departure comes after Kanye was ridiculed for his Yeezy sock shoes, Adidas’ first independent release after the label cut ties.
The backlash caused Kanye to launch a series of unfounded claims on social media, saying: “Adidas copied all my shit and treated me like shit.” Adidas is suing me for 4 billion dollars and selling my shoes without paying me and they say I misused the marketing fund when I’m the marketing.’
The uproar comes after inside sources claimed that Kanye and Bianca’s relationship has improved “drastically,” thanks to the highly lucrative success of Kanye’s latest album, Vultures.
DailyMail.com previously revealed that the couple, who married in December 2022, had a huge fight after Bianca warned the rapper not to make anti-Semitic slurs at a listening event for his album earlier this month.
The couple’s big breakup was said to be the reason she didn’t show up at his event and after-party in New York on February 9, and sources now reveal that their relationship was “hanging by a thread,” claiming that Bianca had started to ‘question everything.’
‘She knows [what] “Everyone is thinking about her husband, and his recent outbursts were making her question everything,” an exclusive source told DailyMail.com.
“But then suddenly her album is a hit and she’s back to being a loving, doting, supportive wife.”
The source explained how terrible things had been in recent months, adding: “Kanye and Bianca’s marriage was hanging by a thread. Everyone in her life wants her to leave him and she is aware of that.
However, Bianca’s apparent change of heart has left loved ones fearing that the designer is only staying in the marriage for financial reasons, views that were further fueled when Kanye revealed that his brand, Yeezy, had gained 19.3 million dollars with a Super Bowl ad. .
Kanye rocked Adidas clothing in 2017
Bianca went braless in an incredibly revealing garment that also featured a strap at the waist.
The beauty also showed off a new hairstyle as she sported a dark black bob while getting close to her husband at the event.
Kanye, 46, rocked a black jacket and matching pants as he shared a kiss with Bianca as they posed for the cameras.
Putting on a leggy display in a pair of pink boots, Bianca joined her husband in the front row during the show.
Bianca showed off her amazing figure in a very revealing outfit.
Bianca ensured all eyes were on her at the show with her bold look.
“To his friends and family, this just shows what his real motivation behind all of this is: his money,” the source said.
“Now they are partners and she has made a fortune thanks to all the work she has done for her husband, as an architect for his brand and as a model.”
They added: “No one doubts that she loves him because she loves him. But the dynamic of their marriage definitely improved drastically due to the success of his album and the massive new influx of wealth it has brought.”
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for the couple for comment.
The couple’s financial health looked less promising last week when Kanye, who now goes by Ye, claimed he was “two months” away from filing for bankruptcy after allegedly losing $2 billion in one day when Adidas ended the his partnership with Yeezy.
The rapper lost his billionaire status in 2022 when several brands terminated his lucrative contracts over his anti-Semitic outbursts and were outraged by his decision to promote White Lives Matter T-shirts at his Paris Fashion Week show.
Last week, Kanye explained to his fans that he put “everything he had” into his $7 million Super Bowl ad for his fashion brand and new album, Vultures.
‘I’ll just be honest with you all. I was two months away from bankruptcy and I put everything I had into it. [the album and the Super Bowl advert],’ he said TMZ.
The couple was all smiles as they took their seats.
Kanye was seen whispering in Bianca’s ear.
Kanye said that when his wealth began to plummet, he moved to Italy with his wife.
“We moved to Italy,” he said. ‘We moved to the factories and survived. We survived the cancellation. We’re back as number one.’
Last Thursday afternoon, the rapper’s new album, which his daughter North posted about in a now-deleted TikTok, was removed from Apple Music and iTunes, where the song Carnival had held the No. 1 spot on the Top 100: chart global.
The move was revealed amid reports that the distributor was working to remove it from all streaming services after Kanye allegedly uploaded it to multiple platforms without permission, according to Billboard.
The album, which reached number one in 100 countries, ran into streaming problems last week when Spotify removed the song Good (Don’t Die) due to allegations of “copyright infringement” made by Donna Summer’s estate.
As of now, the album is still available on Spotify, however, the song Good (Don’t Die) is not currently available to stream.
Vultures Volume 1 marks the initial installment of a planned trilogy. After this, the second and third projects are scheduled to release in March and April, respectively.
Before the album was released, Kanye was reportedly furious after the livestream of a listening event at Chicago’s United Center was cut off when he spit out the lyrics: “And I’m still crazy, bipolar, anti-Semitic / And I’m still being the king.’
Sources previously claimed that Bianca urged Kanye to apologize for any offense caused by his numerous anti-Semitic comments. She wrote it in Hebrew and shared it on her Instagram.
Bianca is said to have warned him not to sing the problematic lyrics and, as a result, he refused to attend events scheduled in New York the following night.
In December, Bianca allegedly pressured her husband to apologize to the Jewish community, as she was “tired” of having to “take care of him” and feared his behavior would put them in danger.
“She told him that his recent behavior was unacceptable and that he needed to apologize because he was putting them in danger and setting a horrible example for their children,” a source told DailyMail.com at the time.
“Bianca is really fed up with him seeking attention and knows he’s not really him, but it makes her seem anti-Semitic, which is very far from the truth.
“She has many Jewish friends who she loves very much and he knows it.”
Kanye acknowledged his behavior on Instagram, telling his 19 million followers in Hebrew: “I am deeply sorry for any pain I may have caused.”
His apology came after a series of offensive and unhinged outbursts, including his anti-Semitic lyrics in Dubai and praising Hitler at a listening party in Sin City in December.
