{"id":113793,"date":"2022-10-06T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=113793"},"modified":"2022-10-06T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:30:03","slug":"kanye-west-s-adidas-deal-under-review-amid-white-lives-matter-shirt-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/kanye-west-s-adidas-deal-under-review-amid-white-lives-matter-shirt-scandal","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West&#8217;s Adidas deal &#8216;under review&#8217; amid &#8216;White Lives Matter&#8217; shirt scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hanging by a thread. Kanye West&#8217;s already frail partnership with Adidas is now officially &#8220;under review&#8221; following the rapper&#8217;s latest &#8220;White Lives Matter&#8221; shirt scandal. &#8220;After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,&#8221; the company announced in a statement Thursday, per CNBC. &#8220;We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.&#8221; West, 45, replied to the statement on Instagram , writing, &#8220;F&#8211;K ADIDAS I AM ADIDAS ADIDAS RAPED AND STOLE MY DESIGNS.&#8221; The fashion designer first partnered with Adidas in 2013 to have them handle manufacturing and distribution for his Yeezy brand. The deal was supposed to last until 2026, but West began to vent about his frustrations with the company this past August. He alleged in a direct message on Instagram to Complex magazine that Adidas &#8220;picked colors and named them,&#8221; &#8220;hired people that worked for [him],&#8221; &#8220;stole [his] colorways [and] styles&#8221; and hired a general<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanging by a thread. Kanye West&#8217;s already frail partnership with Adidas is now officially &#8220;under review&#8221; following the rapper&#8217;s latest &#8220;White Lives Matter&#8221; shirt scandal. &#8220;After repeated efforts to privately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,1],"tags":[151,18,19,153,152,6],"class_list":["post-113793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-fashion","category-news","tag-beauty-fashion","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-show","tag-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}