Kanye West

Kanye West

Kanye West is to take time off from the music world to develop his fashion line, Pastelle.

The rapper said: "I am gonna take a bit of time off starting next year and just do an internship and maybe hang around some of my designer friends and learn."

"Because I wanna deliver great art to the world. I wanna deliver something that inspires other designers, not something that's like, 'Oh, he's just making money off his name'."

Kanye also revealed that designer Marc Jacobs was one of his many fashion heroes.

"He transcends high end to accessibility, he transcends homosexual to heterosexual, he transcends black to white, he transcends Japan to US. He's very important. He's pop culture. You have to give credit to the Steven Spielbergs, Will Smiths, Marc Jacobs who have penetrated pop culture."