Let it be known: For all of his bluster, Kanye West may be among our very best scouts of fashion talent. West—an early champion of Balenciaga and Vetements’s Demna Gvasalia, Off-White’s Virgil Abloh, and Jerry Lorenzo of Fear of God—met up in Moscow this morning with Russia’s favorite homegrown renegade, Gosha Rubchinskiy. Rubchinskiy, himself a designer known for his support of the next generation of Russian talents, namely Tolia Titaev and Valentin Fufaev of @Doublecheeseburgervf, is perhaps most famous for introducing the post-Soviet aesthetic to the Western world, most recently debuting a collection for Fall 2016 that riffed on vintage European sportswear.

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Fufaev captured the meeting of the minds on his Snapchat; West and Rubchinskiy posed together at the Multimedia Art Museum and then later repaired to a local bar. Though Moscow may seem like an out-of-the-way destination for the rapper, especially given the current tense political climate, West’s trip is likely the first of many: Just today Rubchinskiy announced that he would be taking his Fall 2017 show back to Kaliningrad in January after last season’s outing in Florence as part of Pitti Uomo. Could a Yeezy x Gosha collaboration be in the cards? Will West name-check the Russian designer in an upcoming track? Can we expect to see West skateboarding throughout the Russian suburbs and moving into a high-rise apartment like the subjects of Rubchinskiy’s many books? It’s anyone’s guess, and we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled. Until then, maybe we can at least expect to see West rocking some of Rubchinskiy’s Cyrillic font tees in the near future.