Most love stories start with a boy and a girl, but this one starts with a boy and a denim shirt. When
Kathleen Lee picked up a denim shirt, she immediately felt just like her fashion idol,
Kanye West. She told her friend and co-worker
Katie Burroughs that she wanted to pair her new top with jean the way she had seen the rapper do it in a paparazzi picture.
“The day I wore the denim shirt we decided to take a pic to do side by side, and the pic we found of Kanye had Kim [Kardashian] in it, and Katie was wearing almost the exact same outfit so we took it together,” Lee recalls to
Us Weekly. “Both of us knew right then it was funny, and we should do another.”
This idea turned into the genius tumblr page
#WWYW (What Would Yeezus Wear?), which features the two San Francisco-based pals posing as the famous pair, imitating Kimye’s paparazzi shots for their photographer
Katie Maaske Ives (@_kives). And though Kim Kardashian is typically the one making headlines for her style, both Lee and Burroughs tend to fight over who gets to play budding fashion designer Yeezus.
“It is always a battle for Kanye,” Lee admits.
“No offense to Kim, but some of her outfits are hard to pull off without her amazing body. We both admire Kanye as a style icon. He has really great taste and has absolutely influenced how Kim dresses, which she even attests to herself.”
The friends work for Waterfall, a mobile messaging platform based out of San Francisco — Lee as the lead designer and Burroughs as head of HR and Culture. Though they are big fans of the Kimye phenomenon, Lee and Burroughs think their blog will appeal to the multitudes of haters out there, too.
Credit: US Weekly
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