Kanye West shares photo promoting runway show for Balenciaga after hiring Melinda Gates’ lawyer

Kanye West teased Balenciaga’s upcoming runway show for their summer 2023 collection with his Instagram following Wednesday.

The 45-year-old rapper, who previously worked with the luxury fashion house, shared an image of a dirty old sedan with details scribbled on the window and hood.

It said ‘Balenciaga’, followed by ‘Summer 23 collection. October 2, 2022 11:30 AM ET on Balenciaga.com.”

Kanye shared the photo on his Instagram story during the afternoon.

The businessman previously collaborated with Balenciaga on the ‘Yeezy GAP engineered by Balenciaga’ collection, which came out for the second time last week.

Sweaters, puffy coats and other pieces/accessories from the collection sell for over $80, according to the website.

Balenciaga designer Demna Gvasalia teamed up with the rapper, now known as Ye, to deliver “his vision of utilitarian design for all,” as per Vogue Business.

The line was released in July, although Kanye recently announced an end to his contract with Gap. It was supposed to be a 10-year deal, but he ended the partnership last week after just two years, as reported by Entrepreneur.

“I’m sorry, I’m not going to argue with people who are brokers than me about money,” he told CNBC.

Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian also has ties to Balenciaga as she recently appeared in the campaign for the brand’s Winter 2022 collection.

Despite public tensions between the pair, he most notably showed support by sharing an image of Kim’s campaign on social media in February.

Kanye’s recent social media post came shortly after it was reported that he hired Melinda Gates’ attorney to handle a dispute with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

Robert Stephan Cohen, who previously also represented Rupert Murdoch and Chris Rock, has become the sixth divorce attorney, according to Kanye. TMZ.

Since Cohen is in New York and Kanye’s divorce is being filed in Los Angeles, the rapper has also hired attorney Nicholas A Salick of Salick Family Law Group, APLC, of ​​Beverly Hills, as counsel in California, the site reports.

Cohen is the sixth lawyer Kanye has hired in his divorce from Kim. Kanye is still working to settle custody and property issues with his ex-wife.

Last month, Kanye’s fifth divorce attorney, Samantha Spector, withdrew from the case over an irreconcilable breakup with the rapper.

Prior to Spector, West fired attorney Chris Melcher from his duties in the case, TMZ reported in March.

Insiders told the outlet at the time that West had been indecisive in his dealings with Melcher, sometimes seeking a settlement and sometimes seeking a lawsuit against her.

At the time of West’s transfer from Melcher to Spector, Kardashian’s attorney Laura Wasser said West had “strategically” switched attorneys in an effort to slow down the legal process in the split. Mirror reported.

Kardashian filed to divorce West in February 2021 after more than six years of marriage and four children together.

She began dating comedian Pete Davidson last fall, but they broke up in August after nine months together.

Kim has been in a contentious co-parenting relationship with Kanye since their split.

A few weeks ago, Kanye accused Kim and Hulu, the streaming giant of the Kardashian family, of tracking him down in choosing where the kids go to school.

He compared himself to a sperm donor without a say, and was furious that the kids went to a posh private school in LA when he wanted them to attend his school, the Donda Academy, founded in honor of his late mother.

In a clear sign of victory — or at least peace with Kim — he recently shared videos of his two oldest children North, nine, and Saint, six, at his school — the Donda Academy. They appeared happily singing and dancing with a group of other children and teachers.

In a recent interview with Good morning AmericaKanye — who now only goes by Ye — explained that while he and Kim battled over the kids’ education, he also battled Adidas and Gap over creative control over his Yeezy products.

“These little nuances… there were parallels at Gap, at Adidas, and at my house. It was kind of a disregard for the voice I have in something I co-created. I co-made the kids, I co-made the product at Gap and I co-made the product at Adidas,” he said.

“I want my children to go to Donda and I have to fight for that.

However, he said he had a “new respect” for Kim and that he always wanted her to be “calm.”

“This is the mother of my children, and I apologize for all the stress I have caused, even in my frustration, because God is calling me to be stronger. I need this person to be less stressed and of the best, healthy mind and as calm as possible to raise those kids at the end of the day,” he said.