• Watch the Throne Tour T-Shirt

Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne tour is set to kick off tonight at Phillips Arena in Atlanta. Concertgoers will not only have a first look at the stage design of the duo’s highly anticipated tour, but also get a look at concert merchandise. If you recall, Coachella attendees got first dibs at My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy t-shirts at the 3-day music festival. Tonight, ATL fans of The Throne will be the first ones to get their hands on Watch the Throne concert merchandise. One concertgoer tweeted these photos of a t-shirt with Riccardo Tisci’s U.S. flag artwork on the front and tour dates on the back of the shirt. We’ll keep you updated with additional photos of Watch the Throne merchandise.

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• Turn Back Thursday: Glow in the Dark Tour Poster

To commemorate this week’s presale of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s upcoming Watch the Throne tour, this month’s Turn Back Thursday highlights Kanye’s last concert series — his “Glow in the Dark” tour in 2008. In this tour poster, an illustrated Kanye wears a pair of the infamous shutter shades. The sunglasses, which Kanye had custom made from high-end eyewear designer Alain Mikli, made its debut in the “Stronger” music video and soon became synonymous with the Graduation era.

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• Kanye Wearing Red Suit and Horus Chain at Jay-Z & Eminem Concert

Fresh off his VMAs performance, Kanye West headed east to New York to join Jay-z at Yankee Stadium for his Home and Home concert with Eminem. Coming out to perform five songs, including his G.O.O.D Friday hit “Monster” and Graduation classics “Good Life” and “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” Kanye wore a red suit, a leopard-print shirt, red Louis Vuitton Don’s shoes, and his custom-made Horus chain. Minus the leopard print shirt, he’s essentially worn identical outfits at the BET Awards 2010 and this past weekend’s MTV VMAs. There’s no word on the designer of the red suit, especially since many high-end lines have offered a similar red suit in their Spring collections, but if one had to narrow it down, it would be appropriate to consider Dior Homme because Kanye’s black slim-fit suits were made by Dior Homme when he first introduced his Rosewood Movement.

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• Turn Back Thursday: Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour Outfit

With this week’s pre-sale and general sale tickets for the Fame Kills concert featuring Kanye West and Lady Gaga, I  figure it would be appropriate to turn back to 2008 during Kanye’s highly-anticipated Glow in the Dark Tour concert. Below is the concert outfit that Kanye wore to all the sold out shows in the various cities that the tour spanned. I don’t think many people understood what look he was exactly going for, but it probably didn’t matter to most because the show was just that spectacular. It was also during the Glow in the Dark Tour that Kanye wore the Nike Air Yeezy shoes in public for the 2nd time (the first time during the 2008 Grammy Awards with the black Grammy Air Yeezys). These days, they’re being referred to as the Concert Edition Air Yeezys or Fire red Air Yeezys. With Fame Kills just a little under 2 months away, expect Kanye to go “apeshit” with effects and outfits. Especially the outfits, because we all know Lady Gaga sure will.

• Lollapalooza 2008

As many of you may have heard by now, Kanye West, along with Nine Inch Nails (on another stage), closed the three-day music festival, Lollapalooza, in Grant Park in Chicago

Kanye West before the show sharing a laugh with Chromeo’s Dave Macklovitch

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