by Anike Jacobs

While giving a lengthy speech last night at the Fashion Los Angeles Awards last night, Kanye West let the world in on his little secret – why he doesn’t smile.

According to him, smiling sometimes spoils the perfect picture and not smiling makes him smile.

He also talked about the importance of fashion and design, going so far as to say it’s God’s work

“Back when I was working on Yessuz, I saw this book from the 1800s and it was velvet-covered with brass and everything, I looked at all these people’s photos and they look so real and their outfits were incredible and they weren’t smiling and people, you know the paparazzi, always come up to me, ‘Why you not smiling?’ and I think, not smiling makes me smile…When you see paintings in an old castle, people are not smiling cause it just wouldn’t look as cool.”

“In my opinion, God is the number one creator and anytime we create, we’re an extension of doing his work on earth, That’s why we’re here, what can we do for humanity and you know, in a way, fashion is what defines the time.”

“Everyone has some form of fashion every single day “We have the power to change the world. I believe that through design, because design is the closest to truth, problem solving truth is the closest to love and love is the closest thing to God and God is love.”

At the end of his speech, he used the F word.

“I don’t know if I even made one f__king good point.”

Sola