So this past week Kanye West held the fashion show for Yeezy Season 4 in New York during NYFW. West had a bus take the invited guests all the way to Roosevelt Island, where his fashion show was held, and the models were standing under the scolding sun in skin coloured underwear waiting for the show to begin.

It turns out that there was a two hour delay, and by the time the show began guests and models were sweating, possibly dehydrated, and extremely uncomfortable. Even the clothes left much to be desired, they seemed like variations of the same collection he has been presenting for a while, only now presented with a different color palette.

West is highly regarded as a progressive figure, somewhat of a misunderstood genius who has always been a fan of grand gestures. Take Yeezy Season 3, where he held the fashion show at Madison Square Garden and simultaneously released his anticipated album "The Life of Pablo" back in February - he was extensively praised and set the bar pretty high. But unfortunately the same is not true for Yeezy Season 4.

The fashion show has faced backlash for reasons ranging from the delay in the show having disrupted the schedule of famous fashion editors (it's New York Fashion Week, you cannot expect them to have all the time in the world to go to your show), to the treatment of the models who stayed out in the sun without water for hours eventually causing a few of them to faint, to the bad quality of the clothes and accessories that were paraded down the runway - you may have seen the video of the model whose heel was broken and so had to wobble her way on the runway throughout the show?

I guess this raises the question of what we really regard as progressive art, and whether there are limits to such movement. The show's choreographer, Vanessa Beecroft, said that she thinks the wait for the fashion show to begin was intentional so that the guests would be in a semi-meditation state. Does that make it excusable? I don't think so. From the moment you're literally physically interfering in other people's well-being without their consent, whatever you're doing just becomes selfish. And though I applaud West's artistic vision and effort, unfortunately Yeezy Season 4 was slightly too much.