Kanye West is escorted out of Skechers 'unannounced and uninvited' - BBC

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By Charlotte McDonald & Daniel Thomas

Business reporters, BBC News

Shoe marque Skechers claims it had to escort Ye, known arsenic Kanye West, from its firm offices successful Los Angeles aft helium showed up "unannounced and uninvited".

The steadfast added it had "no intention" of moving with the rapper and designer.

It comes aft Adidas, the German sportswear giant, chopped ties with Ye implicit anti-Semitic remarks helium made connected societal media.

The BBC has contacted Ye's representatives for comment.

In a connection Skechers said Ye had arrived astatine its offices with a enactment and was "engaged successful unauthorised filming".

The enactment were escorted from the gathering aft a little conversation, it said.

The marque said: "We condemn his caller divisive remarks and bash not tolerate antisemitism oregon immoderate different signifier of hatred speech."

It added: "We again accent that West showed up unannounced and uninvited."

Ye, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, has been progressive successful a drawstring of precocious illustration spats with large brands successful caller months and galore person chopped ties.

Bipolar upset is simply a intelligence wellness information that affects your moods, which tin plaything from 1 utmost to another. It utilized to beryllium known arsenic manic depression.

The scandals are apt to deed the rapper's income and helium has mislaid his presumption successful Forbes magazine's database of billionaires. The mag estimates the nonaccomplishment of the Adidas concern has chopped his nett worthy from $1.5bn (£1.3bn) to $400m.

In the past fewer hours Ye took to Instagram to code the well-known amusement endowment cause Ari Emmanuel, who had called connected firms to halt moving with Ye implicit his anti-Semitic comments.

He wrote: "Ari Emmanuel I mislaid 2 cardinal dollars successful 1 time and I'm inactive alive. This is emotion speech. I inactive emotion you. God inactive loves you The wealth is not who I am. The radical is who I am."

On Tuesday, Adidas's ended its Yeezy marque collaboration with Ye saying it does "not tolerate antisemitism and immoderate different benignant of hatred speech".

His products volition beryllium pulled from merchantability with contiguous effect, said Adidas. The collaboration was enactment nether reappraisal past period aft the rapper showed a "White Lives Matter" T-shirt plan astatine Paris Fashion Week.

Days later, the rapper posted anti-Semitic comments connected his Twitter relationship which led to his relationship being blocked. Ye responded to his suspension by re-joining Twitter and saying helium would spell "death con 3 On Jewish people", earning him a 2nd disbarment.

Cutting the partnership, which has been hugely successful, means Adidas volition marque a nett nonaccomplishment of £217m successful 2022, it said.

It has besides been reported that a $15,000 a twelvemonth Christian schoolhouse opened by Ye earlier this twelvemonth has temporarily closed its doors. In an email seen by The Times, the main of Donda Academy successful California said ''at the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy volition adjacent for the remainder of the 2022-2023 schoolhouse twelvemonth effectual immediately''.

''THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW.''

Brands chopped ties

Investment slope JP Morgan and manner location Balenciaga person parted ways with the rapper. He has besides been dropped by his endowment agency.

Gap, which ended its tie-up with Ye successful September, is taking contiguous steps to region Yeezy Gap products from its shops and online store.

Film and tv accumulation institution MRC said connected Monday it volition not beryllium airing its precocious completed documentary connected the rapper.

Also this week, Madame Tussauds successful London removed its wax fig of Ye. It said the fig had been "retired from the attraction level to our archive. Each illustration earns their spot astatine Madame Tussauds London and we perceive to our guests and the nationalist connected who they expect to spot astatine the attraction".

Ye has not apologised for the anti-Semitic remarks and connected 15 October defended them connected US podcast Drink Champs.

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