Kanye West's Stylist Cassius Clay
It was just another day of scouring the racks at Barneys for 19-year-old Yale sophomore Cassius Clay, when someone tapped him on the shoulder and complimented him for the way he was dressed. The man was Kanye West, and after a short conversation and an exchange of e-mail addresses, an unlikely relationship developed between the rapper and the cerebral Art History major. Within weeks, the self-described “babe of the woods” of southern New Hampshire who grew up and went to school near Boston had taken a leave of absence from his alma mater to become the rapper’s personal stylist and creative consultant.
