Brown Thomas has cancelled the release of Kanye West's new runners due to "health and safety concerns". A large crowd had queued from the early hours of this morning in order to buy a pair of the new Adidas Yeezy Boost 350s runners, for about €220 a pair. The store said it will be updating its social media channels with details of a raffle to purchase the runners instead. We wish to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused this morning but due to unforeseen Health and Safety concerns to we were unable to release #Yeezy launch to the general public. pic.twitter.com/JyWHA9ZoQW — Brown Thomas (@brownthomas) June 8, 2019Overnight in the UK, thousands of people queued for hours to get their hands on the Yeezy trainers from midnight.

Source: Irish Examiner June 08, 2019 12:45 UTC