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    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Adidas AG
      Adidas to sell Yeezy shoes and donate some of the proceeds

      German sports brand seeks to mitigate damage from ill-fated Kanye West partnership

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Adidas AG
      Adidas to face pressure from big investor over Kanye West findings

      Group to be asked at annual meeting to disclose conclusions from probe into its handling of misconduct allegations

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      LexAdidas AG
      Adidas: Yeezy come, Yeezy go, Bjørn leader clears up the mess Premium content

      New chief must deal with aftermath of Kanye West tie-up before he can focus on turnround efforts

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Adidas AG
      Adidas to pay ex-chief €15.9mn as it slashes dividend after Kanye West saga

      Kasper Rørsted to receive severance payment despite German sportswear group warning annual losses may reach $700mn

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Adidas AG
      Adidas shares slide as fallout from Kanye West tie-up deepens

      German group warns of possible hit of up to €700mn because of unsold Yeezy shoes

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Music
      Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Kanye — it tolls for Ye

      Bipolar disorder and US politics have surely contributed towards the rapper’s dire situation, but music critics are also partly to blame

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Social Media
      Kanye West won’t buy Parler after all following ‘mutual’ agreement

      Announcement comes as rapper has stirred more outrage and lost brand deals over anti-Semitic comments

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      US politics & policy
      Trump under fire over dinner with white supremacist

      Far-right activist Nick Fuentes brought to Mar-a-Lago by Kanye West, leaving rival Republicans to question judgment

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Adidas AG
      Adidas to launch probe into claims about Kanye West playing pornography to staff

      Decision comes after a top shareholder demanded clarity about alleged incidents

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Alex Barker
      Kanye: the tightrope of celebrity endorsements for brands

      Big companies are damaged when their famous partner implodes, but they survive and move on

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Kanye West’s anti-Semitic provocations reverberate across LA

      String of offensive comments from rapper and businessman coincide with burst of anti-Jewish acts

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Law firm Greenberg Traurig latest to move to cut ties with Kanye West

      Florida-based group representing rapper in two ongoing cases condemns his anti-Semitic remarks

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      Music business scrambles to contain fallout from Kanye West controversy

      Spotify, Universal and Sony denounce rapper’s anti-Semitic remarks but keep his songs available to stream

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Adidas AG
      Adidas ends tie-up with Kanye West after anti-Semitic remarks

      German group warns net profits will be up to €250mn lower following decision

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      Ari Emanuel
      Business silence on Kanye West’s anti-Semitism is not an option

      The rapper has millions of fans around the world, many of them young and impressionable

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Social Media
      Kanye West to buy extreme ‘free speech’ app Parler

      Proposed deal comes after rapper was suspended from Twitter and Instagram this month

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Jo Ellison
      Kanye West and the age of the unmanageable

      The failure to auto-correct extreme behaviour has been trending

    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
      Fashion shows
      Chaos and Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week

      The musician’s show proved controversial — but away from the drama, many designers seemed adrift

    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
      ReviewAlbums
      Kanye West disappoints (again) with Donda 2

      The sequel to last year’s spectacularly bad effort is less ambitious and so has less far to fall

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Kanye West series Jeen-yuhs is an intimate tale of the controversy-courting rapper

      The excellent Netflix documentary shows the gifted musician behind the obnoxious exterior

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      Style
      Is Kanye West good for Gap?

      What started as a coup for the store has turned to frustration at the slow rollout of the Yeezy Gap brand

    • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
      Enuma Okoro
      Kanye West and the emotional power of home

      It grounds us and gives us a sense of belonging and direction. What happens when it’s gone?

    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      ReviewAlbums
      Kanye West’s latest album Donda is a dud

      The rapper’s new record is hobbled by repetitious hooks, unimaginative beats and sketchy song structures

    • Saturday, 8 August, 2020
      US presidential election 2020
      Democrats challenge Kanye’s bid to get on Wisconsin ballot

      Party worries billionaire rapper’s presidential attempt could divert votes from Joe Biden

    • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Keeping up with the Kardashian deal machine Premium content

      Coty is looking to the celebrity family to modernise the group’s portfolio of make-up brands

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