Posted by Nate Jones on 10/26/2012 at 12:00 PM News

The Popdust Files: Baphomet, fashion, kanye west, photos, Satanism

In our continuing efforts to explore the wild and wonderful world of Kanye West’s sartorial choices, we’d like to spotlight the pants that West wore out to a Versace event this week. Which pants? These pants:

There’s a lot to take in here, so let’s run down those patches one by one:

“METAL.” Slightly juvenile, but harmless.

This one just says “EXIT.” A Sartre reference? Eh, probably a clothing label and not a philosophical statement. So far, these pants are pretty innocent, as far as pants go. What’s all the fuss about? Let’s look at the other leg:

What’s that star?

That sure looks to us a lot like a Satanic pentagram to us. Uh oh!

And that’s not all:

Yes, you guessed right. That’s the head of the Satanic hermaphroditic goat-god Baphomet!

Does this all mean that Kanye West is a Satanist? At least one guy seems to think so.

Personally, we are less convinced. Can’t a guy go out wearing the head of Baphomet for fun, without everybody thinking he’s a Satanist all of a sudden? If you’re buying it, though, feel free to dig through Kanye’s recent freestyle for references to the works of Aleister Crowley.

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