![]() ![]() On Wednesday, she posted a TikTok saying “a lot of people in the scene” (okay, ew) have known about the affair. Known for being an online nuisance and exaggerating the truth to go viral, she’s also the influencer behind last year’s “Coronavirus Challenge” parody where she licked an airplane toilet. The initial rumor that Kanye West was cheating on Kim Kardashian West with a “male beauty guru” came from within the influencer community itself. Here’s how the internet fed a rumor about Jeffree Star and Kanye West having an ongoing affair and where the hell it came from in the first place.Īh, if it were that easy. But if you’re just catching up, let us rot your brain with yesterday’s fourth- biggest news. At the time, the internet was like “Not now, girl.” The day began with the news that Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are reportedly headed for divorce after six years, but since the day included an insurrection, make no apologies for not having the bandwidth for 2021’s most insane rumor yet. Yesterday, Jeffree Star posted a scandalous selfie, feeding rumors about his alleged affair with Kanye West, around the same time that violent Trump supporters were storming the Capitol. “You will find that once a typeface is being used in a context (fashion in this instance), graphic designers will naturally pick up on this, often unconsciously, and it can become a trend.Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and Jeffree Star/Twitter Kanye, whether he knows it or not (he knows it), certainly has an eye for keeping with a theme.įrom here, Hyndman expects Planet Kosmos to blow up the same way Old English did. Hyndman also notes that Planet Kosmos is a “a really modern and minimalist version of a Blackletter typeface.” It adds an entirely new layer because, Hyndman says, the Old English lettering created by artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt and used on Kanye’s Pablo range is also a Blackletter-inspired type. “The sci-fi feel also suggests that Adidas products are high-tech and advanced.” She suggests that Kanye’s use of the font is “purely style.” “The typeface mirrors the Adidas logo stripes, and its forward sloping angle suggests movement and speed - perfect for sportswear,” she explains. Sarah Hyndman, author of Why Fonts Matter, though, was willing to fill in the blanks. “They did not elaborate, and I am no expert on fashion design,” he says. Rydahl balked at wondering what these designers saw in his design. ![]() (We have reached out to Simons to confirm this.) He’s also been promised a couple of Simons’s shirts once they’re released. ![]() The only compensation that Rydahl asks for in return is a “Compact Disc with something you love or have created yourself.” Rydahl has received art projects, reggae albums, and, from Simons, a disc with the actual designs on it. Rydahl’s Planet Kosmos is free across the internet, but both Kanye and Simons reached out to get the font licensed from him for commercial use, he says. Thank you photo posted by Jonathan Pak on at 6:22pm PDT The final result is something for “everyday items with a futuristic design.” He was inspired to create Planet Kosmos by imagining what font the brand name would look like on “a superfast electric motorcycle from a manga-like next millennium,” he says. Planet Kosmos was originally created for a nightclub by Danish graphic designer Mads Rydahl in 1996. Kanye used it on his already hyped-up (and unreleased) “Calabasas” sweatpants, and now it’s popped up in Raf Simons’s spring/summer 2017 collection (above). Enter Planet Kosmos, the new font du jour for designers like Raf Simons and Kanye West. But Old English’s moment in the sun is over. ![]() You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.Īs recently as August of this year, the gothic Old English font was recognized by the New York Times as fashion’s go-to font after dominating 2016’s concert merch, high-fashion hoodies, and even campaigns for Italian suits. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. ![]()
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