Ye wore a navy zip-up to Saint’s game two years before yeezy.com sold one

Ye spent the last weekend of March 2022 on the sideline of his son Saint’s soccer game in Los Angeles, hood up, filming on his phone. TMZ’s photographers caught him by a folding chair, then crouched in the grass with the phone out, grinning at whatever Saint had just done. It’s the kind of photo TMZ runs for the family story, not the clothes.

The hoodie’s the thing to look at, though. It’s navy and cut big, with no drawstrings and a zip running straight down through the front pouch. Hold it up against the navy zip-up yeezy.com sold out of in 2024 and the details match. yzylibrary, the fan archive, files Ye’s as a prototype of Yeezy Gap’s Cotton Fleece Zip Up: a Perfect Hoodie with a zip sewn in.

If it’s what it looks like, it’s a hoodie Gap never sold. No zip-up turns up among the products archived on yeezygap.com, and the Perfect Hoodie that Gap did put on sale was a pullover.

Harajuku first, then Ye’s own store

The zip-ups surfaced anyway, just not at Gap. In October 2023 What’z Up, a vintage store in Harajuku, put Yeezy Gap zip-ups on a rail, Hypebeast reported. They were sun-faded, and the blue YZY tab hadn’t come out of the neck.

Then yeezy.com had one. The Wayback Machine reached the page on 26 Apr 2024: YZY ZIP-UP HOODIE NAVY, €18.95, about $20, and a four-word description, half raglan zip-up hoodie. Every SKU still started YZYGAPZIPUP, and there wasn’t a size left from XS to 2XL.

What the photos can’t settle

TMZ’s photos don’t show a label, so Ye’s hoodie can’t be tied to a style number from them. What lines up is what you can see: the navy, the missing drawstrings, the oversized body and the zip splitting the pouch, the same things yeezy.com’s own product shots show. That makes it a likely match, not a proven one.

TMZ’s write-up that weekend never mentioned the hoodie. HollywoodLife got as far as “similar dark hoodies” and moved on.