Kid Cudi has confirmed the launch window for his hotly anticipated clothes line, Members Of The Rage (or MOTR, pronounced “motor”, for brief).
Cudi first teased the model final January, saying in Twitter thread {that a} clothes line primarily based on his artworks had “been a long time comin[g] and another dream of [his]”. He promised “more madness, true vision [and] freshness” – in addition to “the ultimate denims” – and went on to peg the summer season of 2021 as his preliminary launch window.
That summer season handed with out the key launch of MOTR that Cudi had overestimated, though a run of shirts was launched and promptly offered out, regardless of costing over £300 apiece.
Last week, Cudi returned to Twitter with extra particulars on the upcoming launch of his MOTR clothes line, together with a brand new, seemingly extra finalized window of launch. It began final Wednesday (December 21), when a fan requested the rapper what he was “most looking forward to in 2023”. He answered with the MOTR launch first, in addition to his upcoming movie tasks and his daughter Vada’s thirteenth birthday.
In a subsequent string of Tweets on Thursday (December 22), Cudi expounded additional on his plans for MOTR, explaining that objects within the line are being “produced in Italy and parts of Europe”, and that its “quality is A1”. He additionally revealed that the launch will embrace sneakers, writing: “To have my own sneaker is the biggest accomplishment. And its rare [sic] a new brand drops [with] sneakers.”
Another tweet declared that each one objects within the MOTR line could be unisex and “pushing the boundaries of fashion”, alongside the informal announcement that it could debut at subsequent 12 months’s Paris Fashion Week (which runs over January 17-26). A proper occasion is but to be introduced.
Cudi went on to notice that he envisions brick-and-mortar shops for MOTR being established sooner or later, with a location in Chicago “def” on his radar for “one day”. On his ambition for the road altogether, he mentioned: “This line has been years in the making, and [I’m] finally ready to reveal it to the world. I’ve always been designing, either for collabs, my album covers and packaging, my stages, merch, but now [I’m] falling into a whole new chapter.”
Last month, the rapper confirmed he’d begun engaged on the follow-up to his eighth album, Entergalactic, which arrived in September alongside an animated movie of the identical title. Earlier in December, he teased that the file would sport a collaboration with Young Thug.