Despite the awful fashion trends he has started recently, (shutter shades stopped being cool shortly after Sho'Nuff wore them in the 1985 kung fu classic The Last Dragon) it really looked like Kanye was living the "good life."
2009 — Rikki Santer, "Charles Darwin Visits the Beagle Point Mall", in Clothesline Logic, Pudding House Publications (2009), →ISBN, page 15:
waves of scents and too many squealing eddies
of chatter. So he dons a pair of shutter shades from
With their hair tied up in side ponytails, young women wearing sparkling leggings and colorful shutter shades danced with male friends whose style influences ranged from Michael Jackson to MC Hammer.
The atmosphere in Nokia throughout the night was that of a party, with attendees dancing and socializing and spreading out into the aisles, many of them sporting lit-up Kanye-style shutter shades.