Kanye West upsets designers at NY show

Kanye West seen leaving Alexander Wang Spring 2016 fashion show after-party during New York Fashion Week. Photo / Getty Images

Kanye West has angered a fellow designer at New York Fashion Week, after the rapper announced he is staging a fashion show at the last minute.

The Stronger hitmaker announced last week that he has decided to present Yeezy Season 2, his collaboration with sports brand Adidas, on Wednesday at noon.

It's a move that especially surprised other designers who had been planning for months to stage their own shows at the same time.

In particular, designer Anne Bowen was scheduled to debut her new street collection, Nomad VII, during the same time slot.

Now an angry Bowen is scrambling to reschedule her show for the next day to avoid a clash with West's runway presentation.

A frustrated Bowen tells Women's Wear Daily, "We have been prepping for a year for this at considerable financial, labour and commitment-cost to our company. Our show date has been scheduled for months and has been on the Fashion Calendar for weeks... And just yesterday we learned that Kanye West is having a show at the same time on the same date as ours.

"Kanye knows he is a media sensation and it is just not ethical to do this. It's like we are David and he is Goliath. We have put our heart and soul into our show, and should not be stepped on like this."

West's show will mark the rapper's second appearance at New York Fashion Week.

Earlier this year, he debuted his Yeezy Season 1 collection, with wife Kim Kardashian in the front row, alongside the likes of Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Sean 'Diddy' Combs.

- AAP