did someone say vanessa beecroft?

oh, kanye, kanye, kanye. you are so over the top! i love you but you have been getting so much negative publicity lately about the way you are so full of yourself. anyhow, this photo of you with many gold ladies surrounding you (entouraging you, i guess) has been much publicized but little pointed out that vanessa beecroft did this quite a while ago. remember naked, shaved models at the guggenheim a few years ago? oh wait, and before vanessa beecroft were the robert palmer girls. and before that, well, i guess mannequins, right?

come on, people, know your recent art history before giving kanye too much credit, 'kay?