Is Bianca Censori okay? From unassuming architect to Kanye West’s living Barbie doll

A strange spectacle has haunted the pages of the showbiz sections recently. The rapper Kanye West, known now only as ‘Ye’, traipsing through various metropolises covered head to toe in black while his wife, the hitherto-unknown Australian architect Bianca Censori, walks beside him in increasingly strange and more revealing outfits.

As paparazzi cameras flash, Censori accompanies Ye in outfits made up of little more than sheer tights, duct tape and, on more than one occasion, a stuffed pillow. Censori’s outfits aren’t just eye-catching because they’re breaking public indecency laws (as they did when she went underwear-less in Paris), but because they’re downright weird. Because so little is known about Censori before Ye, it has led many to question, how much of this is she consenting to?

Here’s what we do know: Bianca Censori grew up in a well-heeled neighbourhood of Ivanhoe, Melbourne, known as one of the “most prestigious” suburbs of the city. She attended a “progressive” nearby private school, Carey Baptist Grammar, which charges $37,976 (£19,647) a year. According to peers, Censori “always ran in private school circles” and was described as being a “social