Dior indefinitely postpones Travis Scott collaboration line after Astroworld live performance tragedy

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Ahead of a launch slated for January 2022, Travis Scott and Dior have indefinitely postponed their ‘Cactus Jack Dior’ line of merchandise. The information comes after a troubling few weeks for Scott, who has been hit with dozens of lawsuits following the Astroworld tragedy that left 10 individuals useless.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, of the roughly 50,000 concertgoers who attended his Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas on November 5, tons of extra had been injured. The capsule assortment initially started as a collaboration between Dior males’s creative director Kim Jones and Scott, who’s Cactus Jack model spans music, style, and meals and beverage.

In a press release, representatives for Dior mentioned, “Out of respect for everyone affected by the tragic events at Astroworld, Dior has decided to postpone indefinitely the launch of products from the Cactus Jack collaboration originally intended to be included in its summer 2022 collection.”

Since the Astroworld tragedy, Scott’s Air Max 1, a two-sneaker collaboration with Nike, has been placed on maintain and Anheuser-Busch, Scott’s companion on the favored Cacti arduous seltzer beverage, introduced that the cans can be discontinued.

Scott has gained a repute for being an entrepreneurial rapper, counting manufacturers like Nike, Jordan, McDonald’s, Epic Games, and Parsons School of Design as collaborators on numerous tasks. The now-suspended launch just isn’t the primary time Scott has labored with Dior; the musician was the face of the posh style home’s AIR DIOR capsule assortment for his or her Men’s Fall-Winter 2020 present.

But Scott’s shelved challenge would have been extra uniquely his personal, because the Cactus Jack Dior assortment was designed to pay homage to his native Texas and the Dior model’s Parisian heritage and connection to the American South. The assortment was the primary time Dior partnered with a musician on a set and the primary time it ever allowed its iconic brand to be altered.

As of December 22, The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has launched an investigation into Live Nation, the occasion promotion and administration firm accountable for organising the Astroworld competition.

In an open letter to Michael Rapino, Live Nation’s president-CEO, Carolyn B. Maloney, the committee’s chairwoman, has demanded a listening to earlier than the shut of January 2022.