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The April 2014 issue of Vogue is on newstands now, and if you're not aware that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are gracing the cover as the first interracial couple, the first rapper, and the first reality star, then hi there, welcome to the Internet. But beyond the amazing photos and the fact that North West peed on her dad during this photo, the profile is chock full of style and fashion-related information from pop culture's first family. Click through to read Kanye West on Male Cleavage, Kim Flipping Shoes on eBay, and Everything Else We Learned From Their Vogue Article.
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Kanye's dedication to T-shirts is unparalleled.
"'I'm really big on necklines,' says Kanye with masterly understatement. 'I research T-shirt shapes because that's what we do, me and my crew at Donda. We master T-shirts—the Yeezus-tour T-Shirts, Pyrex, Been Trill, Fear of God, even normal T-shirts with nothing on them. We literally tailor T-shirts. We take that type of stuff super seriously. A neckline means the difference—for women and men.'"
Kanye puts the utmost importance on working out.
"'What I love about being motivated by Kim,' says Kanye, 'is I don't rest on the laurels of creativity or just the product that I put out. I also think it's important to work out. I don't care how good of a thinker you are, you can't ask someone else to work out for you!'"
There are only a few important items in a guy's wardrobe.
"'Is that a really weird thing to be into—the neckline of a T-shirt?' he queries rhetorically. 'Because, for a guy, all that matters is really jeans and a T-shirt, a nice suit every now and then, and working out.'"
Kanye believes in male cleavage.
"Kanye abhors what he describes as a 'mall-T-shirt neckline' and wears his own cut low enough to reveal a flash of Jacob the Jeweler's diamond-encrusted heavy gold chain and an erogenous slice of his clavicle. 'This is our form of cleavage, right here,' he explains."
Kanye will adjust Kim's clothing to get it a certain way.
"[Kanye] is currently tweaking the gown's sweetheart neckline, which he has likened to a McDonald's M. 'I want to make it more heart-shaped,' he says, 'more graphic, more modern. You can still soften it with the chiffon.' Kim's eyes roll discreetly to the silver-leafed ceiling."
Kim likes wearing high/low combinations as much as Kanye does.
"'I love mixing high and low. I love going to Paris and finding a great piece that I know no one else can find and then coming home and putting it with a skirt that I got for under 20 bucks at Sears, and it looks cool.'" -Kim Kardashian
Kim and Kanye bonded over a mutual love of fashion.
"As a couple, she and Kanye bonded over fashion, and her sensibility has, she says, been refined through their connection. 'I liked a more glamorous aesthetic,' she says, 'but I think that it's simplified, and I love that. I love evolving. I just think I've been educated a little bit better.'"
Kim flips shoes on eBay, and admits to being an eBay addict.
"She has been an obsessive eBay shopper since she persuaded her father to lend her the money to invest in half a dozen pairs of Manolo Blahnik's Timberland-inspired Oklamod ankle boots, as worn by Beyonce in her 2003 'Bonnie & Clyde' video and J.Lo in 'Jenny from the Block.' Kim immediately flipped them on eBay for a vast profit. She admits to an ongoing eBay addiction, shopping at night, 'as I'm falling asleep.'"
Kanye introduced Kim to the Margiela brand in 2008.
"Kim is wearing a pearl-buttoned Celine overcoat, black leggings, and a pair of beloved Margiela boots that Kanye bought for her in 2008 ('I was like, "What's Margiela?" back then,' she notes wryly)."
Madonna once blessed a young Kim with a box full of swag.
"Madonna once gave a seven-year-old Kim and her sister Kourtney a box of her discarded fluorescent-rubber jewelry, although their school friends refused to believe its exciting provenance."
Kim plays dress up with North West using Kanye's chains, Jordans, and a Louis Vuitton bag.
"I put Kanye's big chains around her, and I put a little Louis bag and some Jordans, and I was like, 'What up, Daddy?'" -Kim Kardashian