Kanye's fashion house: Inside the austere $4.5m loft that inspired West's CLOTHING line with its neutral colors and stark rooms (and it looks about as comfortable as his skin-tight designs)

Kanye West has revealed the inspiration behind his controversial beige clothing line - his former $4.5m New York city apartment designed by celebrated architect Claudio Silvestrin.

The rapper shocked the fashion world when he revealed his second Yeezy collection in September featuring skin-tight vests and leggings and shapeless sweaters in a range of natural inspired neutral tones from pale nudes, through to army green, brown and then black...See more photos after the cut..

While the fashion world couldn't seem to make up their minds about the post-apocalyptic Fall line, the inspiration for his monochrome palettes and simplistic designs, could not be clearer.