Ye wore YZY’s emblem shorts five months before they went on sale
In July 2024 Ye went to lunch in Los Angeles in black shorts with a round emblem printed on each leg. YZY didn’t put them on sale until that Christmas, as the SH-01.
Los Angeles and Tokyo
TMZ ran BACKGRID’s photos on 14 Jul 2024 and put the lunch on the Saturday, 13 Jul 2024, at Bludso’s BBQ in Los Angeles (Newsweek, 15 Jul 2024, says the same). The Tokyo photos ran on TMZ on 20 Sep 2024 and are stamped Tokyo 09/20/24. Hypebeast reported the YZY collection with the SH-01 on 26 Dec 2024; yeezy.com’s product records for the SH-01 were created on 22 Dec 2024.
Ye went to lunch at Bludso’s BBQ in Los Angeles on 13 Jul 2024 in a grey hoodie, black sock shoes and a pair of black shorts. TMZ ran BACKGRID’s photos the next day, and the story that went round wasn’t about Ye’s clothes. Newsweek, going off the same pictures, filed the shorts as “black basketball shorts” and moved on.
Look at the legs, though. There’s a round emblem printed low on each one, in cream: a Y-shaped monogram on the left, a crest on the right. You couldn’t buy those shorts anywhere. YZY didn’t put them on sale for more than five months.
It’s the old adidas-era habit: Ye in the sample, the shop months behind. He’d worn the 350 V2 Zebra round Midtown six months before it released. This time the shop was his own, and the sample was a pair of nylon shorts.
Tokyo, two months later
The shorts turned up again in Tokyo. TMZ’s photos from a shopping trip on 20 Sep 2024 catch Ye from behind at a shop counter in a black hoodie and black shorts. There’s the cream Y monogram on his left leg, same size, same spot.
That’s still three months before the collection went up, and nobody writing about the trip mentioned the shorts.
Christmas 2024: SH-01
On 26 Dec 2024 Hypebeast reported a nine-piece YZY collection from Gosha Rubchinskiy, who Complex had reported as Yeezy’s head of design a year earlier. yeezy.com’s own product data names the shorts SH-01, in 02 white, 03 mocha and 04 charcoal. The records were created on 22 Dec 2024, and the stock numbers don’t hide the design: shorts-double-emblem.
The emblems sit where they sat on Ye, one low on each leg. What changed was the ink. yeezy.com’s shorts are printed tonal, black on charcoal, where Ye’s pair had them in cream.
The campaign images, credited to YZY, put the shorts under the WB-01, a nylon windbreaker with the crest printed big across the back. It’s the same crest as the right leg, scaled up, and yeezy.com’s data calls that one windbreaker-emblem.
Newsweek called them basketball shorts. yeezy.com’s data calls them shorts-double-emblem.
The fit
Every piece in the photos, and where it sells today. Lowest prices, US dollars, checked 29 Sep 2026.
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YZY SH-01 shorts, sample
Ye’s pair, black with the emblems in cream, 13 Jul and 20 Sep 2024. Archive only.
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YZY SH-01 shorts, charcoal, mocha or white
The same shorts and the same two emblems, printed tonal. Same line.
Where to shop it
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YZY Pods, black
Black sock shoes on 13 Jul 2024; the soles don’t show. Likely.
Where to shop it
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YZY WB-01 windbreaker
The crest across the back, over the SH-01 in YZY’s campaign. Not in the photos.
Where to shop it
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Grey hoodie (13 Jul) and black hoodie (20 Sep)
No print visible. Not identified.
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Sources
- TMZ, 14 Jul 2024 (photos credited Backgrid; the lunch on the Saturday, 13 Jul)
- Newsweek, Kayla Caldwell, 15 Jul 2024 (“gray hooded sweatshirt, black basketball shorts, and black shoes”)
- TMZ, 20 Sep 2024 (photos credited Backgrid)
- TMZ, 3 Oct 2024 (the same photos, stamped Tokyo 09/20/24)
- Complex, Mike DeStefano, 15 Dec 2023 (Gosha Rubchinskiy named Yeezy’s head of design)
- Hypebeast, Joyce Li, 26 Dec 2024 (nine pieces by Gosha Rubchinskiy; campaign images credited Yzy)
- SH-01 04 (created 22 Dec 2024, SKU shorts-double-emblem-charcoal): · SH-01 02 and 03 (shorts-double-emblem-white, -mocha): · WB-01 04 (windbreaker-emblem-charcoal)
- Hypebeast, 15 Dec 2023 (the YZY Pods, black only)
- · Hypebeast, Rebecca Kim, 19 Feb 2017 (the Zebra’s release, 25 Feb 2017)
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