Like Christmas dinners, you don't really mess with black tie. Billy Porter can, because he's making a wider point about gender. Henry Golding can, because he's adding elements, as opposed to taking them away. And, naturally, so can Kanye. Because Kanye.

Look at that grin. He knows what he's doing. Which, at a book launch of creative director Jim Moore, was the tearing apart of a classic tuxedo for a new Sunday Service special. We had the same jacket, granted, but rather than black trousers, or the simple exchange of a shirt for a T-shirt (the rulebook is more a dossier these days), the 42-year-old ditched all pre-approved components entirely.

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Underneath a dinner jacket was a funnel neck. Down below, a pair of wider cream slacks complete with a drawstring waistband. And, if that bonfire of the regulations wasn't enough, West opted for Yeezy trainers that could well be standard issue once we colonise Mars.

Of course, none of this should come as a surprise from a man that routinely shirks convention, be it in the world of fashion, music or politics. But for the black tie template, which so often results in a crowd of identikit penguin suits, West has dressed on his own terms. Come on, who even wears a tux jacket to a book launch anyway?

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