KANYE WEST WANTS TO REVOLUTIONIZE FAST FASHION

This morning, T magazine published a profile on Kanye West, with an interview conducted during the days leading up to and following the rapper/designer/innovator's Adidas Originals presentation at New York Fashion Week. From his reaction to criticism about the collection to his desire to meld affordability and luxury in fashion, read on for the most interesting revelations from the piece: Despite criticism, he remained positive about the Adidas Originals collab: In a meeting with Adidas team members on the Sunday after the show, West offered one of his typically cryptic adages to his employees: "We destroyed the first village, the fashion village." He's very confident about his influence on the fashion industry: "I know this is really harsh, but it's like Before Yeezy and After Yeezy. This is the new Rome!"

He's very involved in Kim's fashion choices: True, this isn't the most shocking passage in the article—West is widely credited with his wife 's transformation from reality star to fashion darling—but this glimpse into one of their everyday conversations ("I like the black latex, also with the black fur, and then maybe with tights and the Alaïa high lace-ups") really drives his influence home.

He wants to revolutionize fast fashion: West's fashion end goal is to make luxury fashion accessible to all: "Before the Internet, music was really expensive. People would use a rack of CDs to show class, to show they had made it. Right now, people use clothes to telegraph that. I want to destroy that. The very thing that supposedly made me special—the jacket that no one could get, the direct communications with the designers—I want to give that to the world." He knows his ego was out of control: "I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking...I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through."

He and Ralph Lauren are family now: That viral Instagram photograph of Lauren caressing West's cheek was a baptism of sorts for Yeezus: "Do you know what he said when he did that? 'This is my son. And I was thinking, 'I knew it! I knew Ralph was my daddy!' "