SEE YOU TOMORROW MORNING.
>> YOU GOT IT.
>> Ainsley: THANKS, TODD, RAPPER
KANYE WEST DEFENDING HIS EASY
GAP CLOTHING LINE BEING SOLD TO
COMMERCE IN TRASH BAGS.
>> Steve: WHY ARE THEY DOING
THAT?
ERIC SHAWN IS LIVE HERE EASY GPA
IN NEW YORK’S TIME SQUARE TO
SHARE HIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH THE RAPPER.
ERIC, HOW DO YOU KNOW KANYE
WEST?
[LAUGHTER]
>> WE GO WAY BACK KANYE AND I
FOR YEARS STEVE.
ACTUALLY IT WAS REALLY
ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCE THIS
MORNING.
EARLY THIS MORNING WE ARE HERE
AT THE TIMES SQUARE GAP STORE
WHERE KANYE WEST DID ADDRESS THE
CONTROVERSY OVER SELLING
CLOTHES, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THOSE
BIG BAGS.
KANYE AS YOU MAY KNOW GOES BY
THE NAME OF YE AND ALTHOUGH HE
HAS BEEN WIDELY CRITICIZED ABOUT
THIS HE DOES SAY THAT HIS
MESSAGE IS BEING MISREPRESENTED
AND MISUNDERSTOOD.
YE HAS COME UNDER FIRE ON SOCIAL
MEDIA AND ELSEWHERE OVER SELLING
THE CLOTHES IN WHAT PEOPLE
THOUGHT WERE GARBAGE BAGS.
BUT HE SAYS HIS GOAL IS TO DRY
AND MAKE DRESSING EASIER AND
IT’S JUST THE OPPOSITE.
PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT THAT HE HAS
BEEN MAKING FUN AND MOCKING
HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THOSE LESS
FORTUNATE BUT HE SAYS THAT IS
NOT AT ALL HIS GOAL AND HIS
MESSAGE THAT HE IS JUST TRYING
TO CHALLENGE CONVENTIONAL WAY WE
TRUST THROATING MORE EGAL TARREN
AND NOT AS PRETENTIOUS.
>> DO YOU UNDERSTAND SOME PEOPLE
HAVE FELT PUTTING CLOTHES IN
BAGS ISN’T SENSITIVE, PERHAPS,
TO HOMELESS AND OTHER PEOPLE?
>> LOOK, MAN, I’M AN INNOVATOR
AND I’M NOT HERE TO SIT UP AND
APOLOGIZE ABOUT MY IDEAS.
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THE MEDIA
TRIES TO DO.
MAKE US APOLOGIZE FOR ANY IDEA
THAT DOESN’T FALL UNDER EXACTLY
THE WAY THEY WANT US TO THINK.
HE TOLD ME THAT WE SHOULD NOT
CLOWN THE CREATORS IN HIS WORDS,
THE INNOVATORS BECAUSE THAT WILL
MAKE INNOVATORS AND OTHER
DESIGNERS AND PEOPLE WHO DESIGN
AND INVENT THINGS LESS BRAVE.
HE ALSO POINTS OUT THAT THESE
ARE NOT GARBAGE BAGS.
AS HAS BEEN REPORTED BUT LARGE
CONSTRUCTION BAGS.
THE REACH HE PUT THE CLOTHES IN
THERE, THEY ARE FOLDED, IS TO
MAKE PEOPLE BE ABLE TO JUST
INFORMALLY REACH IN AND HELP
THEMSELVES TO WHAT THEY WANT TO
BUY.
HE SAYS HIS GOAL IS TO MAKE LIFE
EASIER AND INFORMAL SO THAT WE
CAN ALL, BASICALLY, DRESS IN THE
DARK.
>> THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
THIS IS NOT A GAME.
THIS IS NOT SOME CELEBRITY
COLLABORATION.
THIS IS MY LIFE.
I’M FIGHTING FOR A POSITION TO
BE ABLE TO CHANGE CLOTHING AND
BRING THE BEST DESIGN TO THE
PEOPLE.
AS YOU MAY KNOW.
IS HE DEEPLY RELIGIOUS
CHRISTIAN.
HE SAYS HE FELT THAT IT WAS
GOD’S PLAN TO PUT HIM HERE
TOGETHER WITH ME FOR THIS
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW TO TELL OUR
FOX VIEWERS WHAT HE SEES AS THE
TRUTH REGARDING WHAT HE IS DOING
HERE WITH HIS CLOTHING.
I’M TOLD THAT BY THE WAY THAT
HIS EASIY GAP LINE HAS SOLD OUT
IMMEDIATELY ACROSS THE COUNTRY
SO CERTAINLY THE PUBLICITY
CAUSED BY THIS CONTROVERSY WHERE
PEOPLE ARE SAYING ON SOCIAL
MEDIA AND ELSEWHERE CERTAINLY
PROBABLY HELP HIS SALES.
IS HE OFF TO LONDON NOW TO KEEP
ON DESIGNING.
HE HAS NO APOLOGIES TO MAKE AT
ALL AND SAYS HE IS TRYING TO
HELP PEOPLE, THE LESS FORTUNATE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY MAKING IT
EASIER TO DRESS AND MAYBE SHOULD
BE IN ONE OF THESE T-SHIRTS AS
OPPOSED TO A SUIT.
AND BUTTON DOWN SHIRT.
>> Ainsley: WEARING A HOODIE.
>> HE HAS GOT HOODIES AND
JOGGERS, T-SHIRTS.
THE STUFF IS ALL FOLDED.
YOU KNOW, HE HAS A POINT
ACTUALLY.
I FOUND HIM SENSITIVE, MUCH MORE
DIFFERENT THAN I THOUGHT.
REALLY SENSITIVE AND THOUGHTFUL
HE DEFINITELY THINKS OUT OF THE
BOX.
SOMEONE WHO IS CERTAINLY AN
INNOVATOR, AN AMAZING INNOVATOR
AND THINKER FOR HIS GENERATION.
>> Ainsley: DID HE TALK ABOUT
KIM KARDASHIAN AT ALL?
>> SAY THAT AGAIN?
>> Ainsley: DID HE TALK ABOUT
KIM KARDASHIAN?
>> NO.
WE DIDN’T DO THAT JUST STAYED
WITH THE CLOTHING LINE.
>> Steve: ABSOLUTELY.
YOU WERE CLARIFY.
NOT GARBAGE BAGS, THEY ARE
CONSTRUCTION BAGS.
>> YEP.
THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE.
>> Ainsley: ALL RIGHT.
>> Steve: ERIC SHAWN HOSE
COOLNESS FACTOR JUST WENT UP BY