Despite reviews that ranged from "a total disaster" to "a hot mess," Kanye West's Yeezy Season 4 debut at New York Fashion Week was apparently a success for Kanye,who intended for the models and audience to wait out in the heat on Roosevelt Island for hours before the show began. "Everyone was in a state of meditation … The long wait before, I believe it was planned because [West] wanted the audience to get into this state of having to observe and having to stay," his collaborator, Vanessa Beecroft, told the New York Post. She also dismissed reports that at least four models fainted from the heat and seemed not to have been helped by Yeezy's staff. "That's a production issue not related to me," Vanessa said. "I'm not sure why some people fainted yesterday, but in my case, when it has happened in my performances, it was the level of emotional stress … It wasn't physical. There was food and water. The situation is so intense and people are looking at you and you are standing." Later, the afterparty reportedly began
