The highly anticipated and arguably highly hyped Yeezy Season 1 collection dropped Thursday, and as expected long lines in front of Barneys and Adidas stores stored started to form hours before the collection went on the sale. The collection is from the mind of Kanye West who just a few years ago was simply a rapper, but now, since being attached to Kim Kardashian, is running his own empire. The collection, which out of nowhere was introduced during New York Fashion Week last February, draws inspiration from earthy minimalistic tones with a military influence. In an interview, Kanye revealed that the inspiration for his collection was his SoHo loft designed by the famed architect Claudio Silvestrin; the apartment echoes the same earthy and muddy tones evident in the Yeezy collection. So are the clothes actually as revolutionary as many media outlets and Kanye himself lead us to believe? The collection is composed of just simple oversized clothing items with earthy tones, but where Kanye really showed something revolutionary was in the show itself. He was able to organize a show in secret in the middle of New York Fashion Week; he brought all his famous friends and created so much hype that his show was comparable to an Apple Event. The clothes were presented in their simplest form without the need of anything ostentatious: just the models and the clothes themselves. This minimalistic philosophy was what was truly revolutionary. The fact that he was able to carry this minimalism and simplicity through all aspects of the line is something to be admired. The minimalism was exemplified in the twenty-minute silent video called Yeezy Season 2: the video traced the painstaking work it took to bring the collection to life and depicted Kanye as the mastermind behind the collection. It is filmed in a kind of post-apocalyptic minimalistic military dictatorship style, which coincidentally is a perfect way to describe the collection – a line seemingly made out of scraps of cloth and coloring remaining from the apocalypse. While some argue that West is riding off his stardom, many equally famous people have launched clothing lines without consumers clamoring to Barneys to pay $2600 for a “Destroyed Sweater.” In an interview, Kanye said he regrets the expensive pricing of the collection and hopes to make it more accessible to everyone. Whether you think the collection is just oversized sweaters in natural colors or a true revolution in fashion, he is definitely doing something right overall and his detachment from Adidas in Yeezy Season 2 shows he is ready to take on full control of the collection.If you want to be part of the hype, the collection is on sale at Barneys, Mr. Porter, and Adidas. This article was written by Abel Hegyes. Send an email to [email protected] to get in touch. Photo Credit: U2 Soul via Wikipedia.org