Vogue editor Anna Wintour describes Kanye West fashion collection as 'migrant chic'

66-year-old has been magazine's editor since 1988

Vogue editor Anna Wintour has described Kanye West’s new fashion collection as “migrant chic”.

The famous fashion journalist used the phrase as she recounted her attendance at the event in New York's Madison Square Gardens during an interview on the Late Night with Seth Meyers show.

“I got there very early, as I tend to do,” she said.

“They put me in this huge VIP section and I was the only person sitting there for about half an hour.

“Eventually they did turn up and the Life of Pablo concert started and the migrant chic fashion show started and they were both wonderful.”

She went on to describe how she tried to slip out of the show early after spotting Jay Z doing the same, but got lost in the venue’s basement.

“I was lost there for half an hour, asking various people to let me out […] I was really in tears,” she said.

She said she was eventually helped out of the venue by her son’s former college baseball coach.

The remark attracted criticism on Twitter:

It comes after Hungarian photographer Norbert Baksa prompted controversy in October with a fashion shoot inspired by the refugee crisis.

It was labelled "migrant chic" by critics who described it as "sick", but he later insisted he never meant to offend anyone.

"These people find the pictures offensive, but we never meant to offend anybody, but rather to draw the attention to the complexity of these people’s problem," he told The Independent.