This article references domestic abuse.
Last night, Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori, made an unexpected appearance at the 2025 Grammys.
While Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, wore a black t-shirt and trousers, Bianca was, effectively, naked. An unnerving clip of the couple appears to show Ye directing his wife to remove her fur coat on the Grammys red carpet. Under the coat, which she duly removes, Bianca is only wearing a flesh-coloured slip with no undergarments.
The stunt has reignited concerns over Bianca’s welfare, with one X user writing, “How much longer can she be paraded around like this before someone realises it’s just too much? Someone needs to step up and save her from Kanye’s chaos.”
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It’s the latest in a long line of ‘controversial’ looks worn by Ye and Bianca, who reportedly married back in January 2023, about two months after his divorce from Kim Kardashian – with whom he shares four children – was finalised.
In recent months, Bianca has been photographed in a series of provocative outfits, from wearing a pillow as a dress to walking barefoot in the street, which, if anything, seems dangerous.
Last year, the couple were pictured in Los Angeles; Ye wearing a full face mask (a signature styling choice for the musician) and an oversized polyethylene-like poncho, Bianca wearing a transparent raincoat – and absolutely nothing else.
The imagery of a fully-clothed man accompanied by a naked (bar a plastic bag) woman is extremely disconcerting. Several X users responded accordingly: one wrote, “Somebody rescue this lost woman please!” while another suggested, “This is all about [Ye] trying to control her.”
Several of these looks have reasonably been described as humiliating, degrading, and demeaning. This concern for Bianca is based on the assumption that Ye is the one styling her. Neither Ye nor Bianca have publicly confirmed or denied this.
However, some fans argue, there is precedent for Ye having sartorial input over what his partner wears. Namely, Kim Kardashian. In a 2018 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kardashian said, “I always thought I had really good style – until I met my husband [Ye] and he told me that I had the worst style.”
Fast-forward four years to an episode of The Kardashians in 2022, when Kim revealed that Ye had said she looked like a “cartoon character” after she dressed herself without his fashion advice. She told her sister Kourtney Kardashian that Ye had called her after she attended the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator Awards back in October 2021. “He told me my career’s over. And then he showed me a picture of Marge Simpson wearing something similar,” she explained.
She read out one of his texts which reportedly read, “The orange look made me so mad. Would’ve went to jail before I went out in that.”
Speaking about styling for the WSJ Awards, Kim also noted, “I was like, how do I wear something that hasn’t been pre-vetted first?”, adding that she was “so nervous” at the thought of wearing a “bad outfit.”
