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Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR
FOR THE SUPERSTAR RAPPER TURNED STUDENT OF STYLE, FASHION ROCKS AS MUCH AS MUSIC.
At 31, the Atlanta-born, Chicago-bred Kanye Omari West is one of the most talented music entertainers of our time. West, whose first name means "the only one" in Swahili, has earned piles of accoladesincluding a dozen Grammy Awardsfor his lyric prowess, but it is his sartorial savvy that is now going platinum. He was a front-row fixture at the fall collectionsabout 20 shows in all, including Narciso Rodriguez and Preen in New York, House of Holland and Richard Nicoll in London, and YSL and Stella McCartney in Paris. Having developed a capsule jewelry collection with Takashi Murakami, he's now designing a line of boldly colored trainers for Louis Vuitton (available next month), in addition to creations for his own clothing label, ...