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Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 4 fashion show is going down right now at Madison Square Garden. Last week, Ye had tweeted out a casting call for models for the show, and it immediately was met with controversy because it called for “multiracial women only.” It was quite an interesting choice of words, leaving it up for interpretation. Some felt that he meant he only wanted light-skinned “mixed” women and no women with darker skin tones, while others felt that he meant no Plain Jane white women. Judging by the photos and video coming from MSG, the people who fell into the thought process of the latter were more accurate, though both were off.

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Just before the show, Ye sat down with Vogue for an interview, and addressed the drama. “I’m really not here for controversy,” was one of the first lines of the interview – which is a lie because Yeezy loves stirring the pot, but that’s neither here nor there. Here’s what he said about the casting:

“The ten thousand people that showed up didn’t have a problem with it. How do you word the idea that you want all variations of black? How do you word that exactly?”

He also explained that the concept came out of discussions with Vanessa Beecroft, the Italian artist who helps to stage and choreograph his shows, and was not intended to exclude anyone.

The interview also discusses his Adidas collab, his fashion inspiration, opening his own stores and more. Read it in full over at Vogue.