Is the Yeezy Gap Jacket Really Any Good? The first product of the much-hyped collaboration made a big splash. But can Kanye West actually save Gap? The Yeezy Gap jacket, the first item to be released from the collaboration.Credit...via Gap June 9, 2021, 8:58 a.m. ET The reveal of the first Yeezy Gap jacket on June 8, a year after the partnership between Kanye West and the beleaguered maker of American basics was announced, went pretty much as expected. First came the crazed excitement, the release of all that pent-up expectation: OMG! OMG! The future is finally here. And on Kanye’s birthday!