Marriage, she says, is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
Today, she has an extra boost from black Jimmy Choo pumps in her preferred height: 4 inches.
Her manicure is clear but elegant, and she wears no earrings.
(I just don’t even have time, she says.)
She carries a nice and beat up Hermes bag adorned with a kawaiiMonchhichimonkey keychain she got from Tokyo.
It’s like my office, she says, grinning.
Kimora is days away from launching a new Baby Phat collection online.
It’s very much Y2K brought modern.
Few brands are as synonymous with their era as Baby Phat and Y2K.
Flashy is fun, Kimora says.
It’s colorful and big.
Diamonds, but [they] can be fake.
Mine are not, but the worlds can be.
It doesn’t matter.
It’s what looks good.
If you feel glitzy, be glitzy.
It doesn’t matter that you don’t have a billion-dollar glitzy budget.
I am a princess, Kimora states, but I’m the people’s princess.
The actor and musician Keke Palmer says that Kimora was responsible for all the iconic looks from her girlhood.
Kimora is definitely someone who lights up a room when she enters, Hilton says.
She would have the most epic fashion shows and I loved attending during NYFW.
Rihannareportedlybought over a dozen pieces from vintage collector and fashion historian Gabriel Helds Baby Phat archive.
That’s why we’re here with Y2K [revival].
You were my model, Mr.
Mogul, she teases.
Britney Spears was frequentlypappedwearing the brand.
To this day, I love her, Kimora says.
KimorafetedAoki with ablowout partyat the Soho Grand Hotel in New York.
We all know about the September issue ofVogueor of any book really, Kimora says, full of pride.
Well then I’m great.
My mirror is great, sparkly.
My kids have really made me proud.
I know you’re telling the truth, Kimora reassured her.
He said it to me [when I was] coming up.
AokisTeen Voguecover is vindication that she will be fine and that Russell had overestimated his reach over their lives.
She was quiet for years, she says, when Russell overstated his role in their childrens lives.
At the end of the day you go to bed, you’re with yourself.
Kimora has a way of talking that feels deliciously conspiratorial.
Although Baby Phat was quickly successful, Kimora still had to fight for recognition.
Not unlike how the Kardashians are today, she says.
You’re too pretty, you’re too brown, you’re too this, you’re too that.
Kimora describes herself as feisty and unapologetic.
Im the one that got through where we werent supposed to get through, she says.
Guys say that to me a lot.
I always have my nose in somebody else’s business, she says.
Midway through our interview,Kimora opens up about a concern.
I fear that I sound way too much like, Screw all the men, she says.
I love men, she clarifies.
That’s why I’ve been married so many times.
It’s not all that it’s cracked up to be.
It’s not giving what it was supposed to have gave!
Last year, it was reported a judge ordered Russell to pay Kimora $100,000 in legal fees.
I’m so bruised by it all, she says.
I feel like I’ve run into con artists every step of the way.
When she looks back on her relationships, she can see how she might seem like the common denominator.
It looks like, Well, it’s all you, all fingers point to you, lady.
You’re the one.
Something about powerful men and how they really appear to be powerful and big and this and that.
But they’re nursing an ego inside of there.
Not just these men, any men.
I do everything on my own.
Like I say, I’m a single mom.
I asked Khloe to marry me and she said yes.
It was a joke, I had on a big diamond ring and so did she.
In Kimoras world, all her girlfriends have multiple children, multiple properties.
We have our own money, we have our own businesses and brands.
We don’t need the guys.
A bougainvillea petal from above lands square on her face.
God’s throwing pink flowers at us, she says, happily.
I love to be in love, she admits, lightly throwing up her hands.
It’s a problem.
Maybe I’ll be like Elizabeth Taylor, she offers.
She married like seven times, or maybe eight times.
Kimoras right, it was eight (Taylor married Richard Burton twice).
She tells me that she could, hypothetically, quietly date someone in private.
But for now, the public loves in her life are her kids and herself.
It’s probably the first time the world is really just seeing Kimora for Kimora, she says.
And that’s probably why I’m so damn excited.
She is full, and her mirror is sparkly.
