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On Sunday, Kanye West stopped by Erewhon, basically the snake-free Garden of Eden for the Los Angeles rich and famous, wearing a deep eggplant outfit of slacks, Nike Internationalist Mujer sweatshirt, oversize tee, and…sock booties? Sneaker-socks? Sooties? Snocks?And footwear has always been an essential part of religion. A little cult book called the Bible is filled with stories about shoes, and Jesus, among other revered figures, Nike Air Max 95 Womens was known to go barefoot as a gesture of humility. More www.marysiamilewski.fr recently, Catholic popes have allegedly worn Prada loafers, and their socks alone have become famous objects of desire. The hypepriest phenomenon has also swept American Christianity, with the Instagram account @PreachersNSneakers tracking Nike Air Max 270 Femme the hypebeast-level sneakers religious leaders are wearing. The materialism Nike Air Max 90 Mujer has ruffled some young Christians: “People will follow you if they believe in you, and it has nothing to do with your sneakers,” one Catholic sneakerhead told The Wall Street Journal.

West’s shoes are often newsmakers—from Nike Air Max Thea Womens his regular Yeezy drip to the undersize pool slides he debuted at 2 Chainz’s wedding last Nike Air Max TN Damen summer—but these are particularly unusual. They appear to be laceless pull-on booties, crafted from neoprene, snugly fitted, and bonded with fabric tape. The Nike Air Max 95 Womens super-thin chevron-grid soles extend over the toe.West’s Nike Internationalist Femme barely-there sneaker is perhaps a move in the other direction, a humbler kind of footwear in an age of excess. If this seems like too close a read, consider that his Coachella performance arrived with a new capsule of merch titled “Church Nike Air Max 1 Femme Clothes,” including a pair of “Church Socks” and “Holy Spirit” sweatshirts. Adidas ZX Flux Mujer Are these shoes meant to suggest that he’s not like the other hypepriests? As sneakers get bigger and bigger—physically and culturally—is West doing some kind of sneaker atonement?

Or maybe they’re just great shoes that are Adidas ZX 850 Mujer very comfortable for popping into Erewhon when you need a little shot of wheatgrass.Over Adidas ZX Flux Dam the past several months, West has focused most of his attention on his Sunday Services, a weekly program of gospel performances that culminated in April with a performance at Coachella. Its members insist it is not Nike Air Pegasus 83 Femme a church, and yet its sensibility and aesthetic cultivate a highly religious atmosphere.Back in January, Kim Kardashian-West started sharing Instagram stories of Kanye West staging gospel choir performances of his songs. These performances Nike Air Max 97 Womens were often in rooms lit to suggest that a James Turrell glow is the Nike Air Max 90 Femme modern-day equivalent of a Catholic rose window. (West is an avowed Turrell devotee.)This coming Sunday, West will headline Coachella with his Sunday Service. Unlike the usual Sunday Service, it will be open to the public and, Nike Air Max 90 Dámské presumably, will not require attendees to sign an NDA. But there will obviously be a few Nike Air Max 270 Womens surprises: merch, at least, and maybe even a few new songs.