Kanye West called Vogue fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson his “sister” after attacking her for criticizing his “White Lives Matter” T-shirts.
“GABBY IS MY SISTER,” Ye wrote on Instagram on Tuesday night while also sharing a photo of Karefa-Johnson.
“I DON’T LET PEOPLE GO TO BED THINKING I DID NOT HAVE GABRIELLE FOR 2 AM TODAY AT 5PM, THEN WE GO FOR DINNER AT FERDIE (a popular Italian restaurant in New York City).”
The founder of “Yeezy” further claimed that their meeting was filmed by Baz Luhrmann, the director of the movie “Elvis”, at the request of Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue.
The “Donda” rapper also claimed they posed for photos afterward, but was instructed not to post them.
In his post, Ye claimed he felt Karefa-Johnson was being “used” by her company to “speak on my facial expression” – which she denied.
“WE OTHER OWNED FOR THE WAY WE FEEL THAT WE ACTUALLY GO TOGETHER AND HAVE BOTH EXPERIENCED THE BATTLE FOR ACCEPTANCE IN A WORLD NOT OUR OWN,” he wrote.
The rapper closed the post by saying: “SHE DON’T AGREE I DON’T AGREE, WE DON’T AGREE. AT LEAST WE ALL LOVE FERDIE AND FASHION.”
While West appears to be trying to mend things, Gigi Hadid quickly stood up for her boyfriend — again — by correcting the rapper: “It’s Gabriella*.”
Vogue also confirmed that Ye and Karefa-Johnson met before condemning his treatment of their employee in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
“Vogue sits alongside Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, our global fashion editor at large and long-time contributor. She was personally attacked and bullied. It is unacceptable,” the magazine said in a statement.
“Now more than ever, voices like hers are needed and in a private meeting with Ye today, she once again spoke her truth in the way she felt best, on her terms.”
Ye’s most recent feud started after the Vogue editor labeled West’s “White Lives Matter” designs as “indefensible behavior” while she sat in the front row at his Paris show.
“I’m smoking… collecting my thoughts…,” she wrote via her Instagram Story along with a video of her reaction to the fashion show.
“I think I understand what he was trying to do – he thought it was Duchampian. It wasn’t,” she wrote in another Instagram story. “It didn’t land and it was deeply offensive, violent and dangerous.”
“There is no excuse, there is no art here,” she continued. “I think if you asked Kanye, he’d say there was art, and revolution, and all that stuff in that t-shirt. There isn’t.”
After seeing her Stories, Ye went after the Vogue editor’s fashion choices.
“This isn’t a fashion man,” West wrote in a since-deleted photo of Karefa-Johnson wearing brown boots, a striped knit skirt, a yellow graphic tee and a corduroy trench coat with eye-catching accessories.
In a separate post, he zoomed in on the boots and wrote, “I KNOOOOOW ANNA HAAATES THESE BOOTS”, referring to Wintour.
Karefa-Johnson isn’t the only person to speak out in protest at West’s latest design choices.
Jason Lee, the rapper’s longtime business partner, cut all ties with the designer after the latest antics.
“I love Ye as a person, and I support freedom of expression. But this is gas lighting for black people and strengthening white supremacy. Not sure if he has any friends left to tell him but this is utterly disappointing,” the host of “Hollywood Unlocked” wrote on Instagram.
“I’m going to exercise freedom of speech and say, no one black has ever said white lives don’t matter. But when black people do this, it just screams the need for white validation.”