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Half-Irish model who walked in Kanye's fashion show reveals behind-the-scenes reality

Ciarda Hall was one of 100 models cast in Kanye’s show. She also happens to be half-Waterfordian.

KANYE’S FASHION SHOW in New York this week was slated by media who described it as a hot mess.

The rapper debuted his Yeezy Season 4 collection on Wednesday and let’s just say that it didn’t quite go to plan. Some models fainted, some models struggled to walk in their heels.

Like we said: it was a hot mess.

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Among those to walk in the show was Ciarda Hall from New York, who just so happens to be half-Waterfordian. (Hall’s mother Ann hails from the county.)

Hall decided to try out for the show after seeing Kanye West’s casting call last week, which specifically requested “multiracial women only”.

“They were specifically looking for multiracial girls and so I thought, ‘Well here’s my chance’ and I went to the casting,” Hall explained to DailyEdge.ie.

When it was my turn to go in, I remember them asking me my ethnicity so they could write it down and when I said, ‘Oh, I’m half black and half Irish’ they thought that was an amazing mix.

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It was the night before the show and Hall still hadn’t heard back from the casting agency. “I was just like, ‘Damn, this sucks,’” she said.

But then just as she was going to bed on Tuesday night, she received an e-mail informing her that she had been cast in the show.

I got the email and ran into my Mom’s room to tell her. She jumped out of her seat and ran and hugged me she was so excited!

And so the next day, she set off with no notion of what was about to happen. Upon arriving, she discovered everything was still shrouded in mystery.

We didn’t know anything – what we were wearing or even where the show was. We all had to meet at Jack Studios in New York City and they took our phones for the entire day. We got our hair, make-up and nails done and then got put in our outfits. No pictures were allowed or anything.

The models were subsequently placed on buses and brought to Roosevelt Island, the setting of the show. Hall said it was “insane how beautiful it was”.

We all got lined up on the grass and music was playing. I could literally feel how beautiful it all was.

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And then the dreaded sun came out.

According to Hall, the models were instructed to stand and look straight ahead. They were told they could sit down if they got tired.

As soon as the show started, however, Hall said that several models began to pass out due to the heat.

A girl behind me fainted and people ran to give her water and we all pretended like it wasn’t happening and the show kept going. Next thing I know another girl passes out, and then another and another.

Hall said nobody working at the show helped at the time and it was left to other models and audience members to bring water to those who passed out.

It kind of looked rehearsed. Almost like the way a girl from one section would faint and a girl next to her would get down low to pour water on her and stuff. It kinda looked good if it were supposed to happen. But it wasn’t.

Ciarda didn’t direct criticism at Kanye West and said he was merely trying to create a beautiful spectacle.

How was Kanye supposed to know people were gonna pass out? People slandering him for choice of location isn’t right. He was just trying to make it beautiful, which it was.

But on the other hand, she felt that West could have at least interacted with them.

He could have maybe been the one to help out or maybe even said hello and thanked us for standing in the heat for hours but he didn’t. I actually didn’t see him once.
But I guess that’s Kanye West for you.

Despite the show’s flaws, however, Hall said she was still delighted to have been part of what was ultimately “a beautiful experience”.

Up the Déise, tbh.

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Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:47 AM

    ‘Multi racial applicants only’ – ok
    ‘Black applicants only’ – no biggie
    ‘White applicants only’ – OMG RACISM, look everyone….racists

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:59 AM

    Where did you see “black applicants only” or are you just making shit up? Performing arts is one area where it is more or less acceptable to be specific on an actor’s look, including skin colour, in order to be consistent or true to the story being told or the art’s message. But I don’t reckon you wannabe victims of racism know much about anything that doesn’t involve chewing corn and spittin’ tobaccy.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:06 AM

    Yes Frank that’s it. Spittin’ tobacco is my thing. We can’t all be as sophisticated as you, with your razor sharp powers of perception

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:10 AM

    With my razor sharp powers of perception I can gather by your response that you have never seen an actual “black applicants only” advert?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:12 AM

    Are you at the catnip this morning?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:48 AM

    David, I think Frank’s cat is actually Schrödinger’s cat. He’s both dead and alive.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:52 AM

    So you’re suggesting that he gets back in his box?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:57 AM

    So no “Black applicants only” ads?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:09 AM

    The BBC can be real clowns sometimes. This is hardly representative though.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:16 AM

    You seem tense…

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:25 AM

    Well white people weren’t allowed to apply ..

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:40 AM

    True Suzy. That would be wrong. It is hardly indicative of a long-standing historical anti-white racism though, is it? Those who try to draw some kind of equivalency between this misguided “affirmative action” and historic bias against non-Europeans need to get some kind of perspective transplant.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:55 AM

    Half black half Irish? Is black a country?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:37 AM

    Multi-racial !!!!!! Should of just put no whites allowed……

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:34 AM

    I’m not illiterate and not insecure. Also definently not rascist.. Unlike Kanye West who is rascist and a stuck up little p#ick…

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:58 AM

    Was that irony?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 1:26 PM

    Frank are you aware that illiterate means the inability to read and write?

    I think you need to re evaluate your own education.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:29 PM

    Poor little Viking, so desperate to be oppressed. Multi-racial also excludes black, Asian, Latinx people .etc .etc, but all the Viking cares about is how unfair it is on the poor whites.

    You’re so sensitive buddy, why you gotta play the race card?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:43 AM

    Sounds like a gathering of racists.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:05 AM

    This is not news

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:50 AM

    I’m baffled too, they could have just left it at the headline and a picture for all the sense the rest of the article made.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:54 AM

    I’m half Cork and half Donegal, would I have made the cut ?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:59 AM

    Don’t be silly. It’s inter-racial, not inter-species.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 2:07 PM

    Kanye West is a moron. .do you agree ?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:27 AM

    Why is this news ?????

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:24 AM

    I’m 1/32nd Maltese, 1/32nd Scots Fowk, 1/32nd Scots Gaelic, 1/32nd Anglo Saxon and the rest Irish Gaelic.

    Wonder if I’d count as mixed race.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:04 AM

    How can you be half irish half black . Should she not be Black/half Black of irish decent .

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:14 AM

    So diverse!

    Not!!!

    It works both ways..

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:27 AM

    Who bloody cares where she is from. It’s not a story – at least not one that interests me – and it would seem, I’m not alone

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    Sep 10th 2016, 1:27 PM

    Kanye West is a disgusting human being.

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    Only African Americans can get away with not hiring white people.

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    Kanye West needs psychological help!!!

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    Sep 10th 2016, 1:53 PM

    Multi racism… Is that when you’re human and something else… Like extra terrestrial or such the like?

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