Monday, November 26, 2012
Kim Kardashian's message to her Bahrain's fans
Kim Kardashian is opening Millions of Milkshakes at The Walk in the Kingdom of Bahrain on December 1st 2012. For more informations go here: Kim Kardashian takes Bahrain
Kendall Jenner on the cover of Miss Vogue Australia
Kendall Jenner, while in Australia, shot such an amazing photo-shoot for Miss Vogue Australia. She's on the third cover ever of Miss Vogue's Australian version. Australian dolls can get the third issue on newsstands now!
Friday, November 23, 2012
Khloe Kardashian Odom co-hosting the X Factor USA with MarioLopez (November 22)
Beautiful as always, Khloe Kardashian Odom rocked her black dress while co-hosting the X Factor USa with Mario Lopez.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian launch Kardashian Kollection Jewerly in Australia
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian are having such busy months. With the launch of the Kardashian Kollection in many countries all over the world, the sisters are also launching pieces of their Kollection all around the Australia's stores.
In fact, they're launching the Kardashian Kollection jewerly line in Australia at EQUIP. Actually the jewerly line is available only online, but really soon it'll be available in stores too.
''I am excited to announce that the Kardashian Jewellery line will be exclusively available at eQUIP Accessories, here’s to the launch of our jewellery in Australia.'' - Kourtney Kardashian wrote on her blog.
Kim and Kourtney Kardashian receive the keys to North Miami (November 19)
Kim and Kourtney Kardashian received the keys to the city of North Miami earlier this afternoon at the North Miami City's hall. (November 19). Kim and Kourtney got also Khloe's key of the city as the youngest Kardashian sister wasn't in the town at that moment but she was coming back to Los Angeles. Kourtney rocked an amazing Kardashian Kollection dress and Kim a Sally LaPointe dress, Casedei heels, Celine cuffs.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Kim Kardashian takes Bahrain
Kim Kardashian will be hosting the opening of Millions of Mishalkes in Bahrain at the Walk, located at the Road 1503, Block 915, Al Mashtan Road, East Riffa, 60777 Rifa' Ash Sharqi, Al Rifa` Wa Al Mintaqah Al Janubiyah, Bahrain. (Riffa in the Central Governorate,) on December 1st, 2012.
Kim will be meeting fans at the event. More infos coming soon!
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian to get North Miami City's keys
The sisters are living in North Miami during the filming of their new E! reality TV show's spin-off 'Kourtney and Kim Take Miami.'
The presentation to the sisters will be at 11:30 a.m. in the council chambers of North Miami City Hall, 776 NE 125 St.
Pierre will present a key to the Kardashians and give the reality stars an official welcome to North Miami.
The media has been advised the sisters will pose for photos, but will not give interviews at the event.
Pierre will present a key to the Kardashians and give the reality stars an official welcome to North Miami.
The media has been advised the sisters will pose for photos, but will not give interviews at the event.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West attending the MTV Ema 2012 (November 11)
Kim Kardashian made an appearance at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday (November 11) as she was presenting the Best Song Award, won by Carly Rae Jepsen with her song 'Call Me Maybe'.
Kim was stunning wearing Christian Louboutin Un Bout 120mm and an amazing dress made by Stephane Rolland.
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian meeting fans at Westfield in London, UK (November 10)
Kourtney Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kim Kardashian were attending the photocall to launch the Kardashian Kollection for Dorothy Perkins at Westfield and for meeting the 10,000 fans who were attending at the mall on November 10. Kim, Kourtney & Khloe were all rocking Kardashian Kollection
Friday, November 9, 2012
Kim Kardashian takes Kuwait
Kim Kardashian will host the Millions of Milkshakes grand opening at the new Millions of Milkshakes in Kuwait, located at The Avenues on November 29. The Avenues mall is in the Al-Rai industrial area, along the 5th Ring Road. For have the chance to meet Kim, for take group pics with her, have a Q&A session with her and watch her make her own ‘Kim’ milkshake, you'll have to buy a ticket which worths 150 KD. The event starts at 6:00pm and ends 8:00pm.
On November 30, Kim will host a VIP Gala Dinner at Lenôtre Paris Kuwait where she'll dine with her fans. The dinner will start at 9:00pm and will end at 11:00pm, a 2 hour long dinner where you will get to chat with Kim and take a photo with her. A ticket to the VIP Gala Dinner at Lenôtre with Kim costs 350 KD. To purchase tickets, contact Dana on Twitter @KardashiansKWT.
Plus, Kim Kardashian will be hosting the opening of Millions of Mishalkes in Bahrain at the Walk, located at the Road 1503, Block 915, Al Mashtan Road, East Riffa, 60777 Rifa' Ash Sharqi, Al Rifa` Wa Al Mintaqah Al Janubiyah, Bahrain. (Riffa in the Central Governorate,) on December 1st, 2012.
Kim will be meeting fans at the event. More infos
Kim & Kourtney Kardashian answer Cosmopolitan UK's questions (November 9)
Early this morning, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, after have made an appearence on Lorraine, they've answered at Cosmopolitan UK's questions about their line's launch at Dorothy Perkins!
Kim & Kourtney Kardashian at the Kardashian Kollection For Dorothy Perkins' Launch Party (November 8)
Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian both attended the Kardashian Kollection launch for Dorothy Perkins at Aqua on November 8 in London, England. Both the stunning sisters were wearing Kardashian Kollection for Dorothy Perkins, Kim wore the Kardashian Kollection black sequin dress and Tom Ford Spring 2012 Sandals. Kourtney was wearing a Kardashian Kollection black spot blouse and Alexander McQueen Gilly Boot.
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian's meet and greet in London
The girls will also be signing a limited number of autographs for fans in The Atrium from 12:30pm on Saturday 10th November. To be eligible for an autograph, you must collect a wristband from Westfield London (you will be directed to the exact collection point upon your arrival) on Saturday 10th November – wristbands will be distributed from 9.00am.
The queue will open from 7.00am – no overnight camping is recommended. 500 wristbands will be distributed on a first come, first served basis and you must be the holder of a wristband to enter the signing queue in The Atrium.
If you miss the chance of obtaining a wristband, you are still welcome to enjoy the event from the viewing areas in and around The Atrium.
Only the first 500 people to collect a numbered wristband from Westfield London will be eligible to enter the signing queue. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Entry to the signing queue with a wristband does not guarantee that you will meet or obtain a signature from the Kardashian sisters.
From trend led pieces to fashionably tailored looks, the Kardashian Kollection will comprise of more than 100 pieces from their ready-to-wear clothing and handbag collections.
For more information and to sign up to be the first to shop go to dorothyperkins.com
Commenting on their visit Kourtney, Kim and Khloé said:
“We are so excited to be coming to the UK together to show our fans the Kardashian Kollection. We are really proud of the line and how well its been received in the US over the last year, so we look forward to meeting our British fans at Westfield London and showing English women our designs.”
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Kim & Kourtney Kardashian talk with Heart Radio (November 7)
Yesterday, Kim and Kourtney chatted with Heart Radio and they talked about everything they're working on. Enjoy the videos!
Kim and Kourtney Kardashian on Lorraine
Kourtney and Kim Kardashian will bechatting LIVE from the Lorraine studio (November 9.)
Kate Garraway will interview Kourtney and Kim at 8:30 a.m while they'll be live-calling their sister Khloe.
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian's interview with FEMAIL
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian have just LAUNCHED KARDASHIAN KOLLECTION AT DOROTHY PERKINS today November 8.
And here there's an interview from the famous UK Magazine 'Femail' where they share tips about fashion:
--- What is your favourite piece from the collection? How would you style it three different ways?
Kim: I absolutely love our sheer spot blouse, which comes in both ivory and black. This blouse is so chic and versatile for any occasion. The polka dot details are divine. and the feminine tailoring is so on trend at the moment. As soon as we could get our hands on the first samples we have been wearing this blouse everywhere!
It is perfect for a business meeting with a tight black pencil skirt and simple black pump heels. I would pull my hair into a sleek ponytail or top knot bun and pair with our gold hoops, which I love! It's a great go-to outfit if you need to dress to impress for work.
If I was heading to dinner with friends, I could pair the blouse with our cute black shorts, sexy heels or ankle boots and a fabulous little clutch. A statement ring and earrings would definitely complete the look. If it was a little colder, a black blazer is the perfect solution.
For more relaxed weekend style, you can pair with leather pants, simple black heels and an oversized statement tote with hair down.
--- What is the one style rule you live by?
Kim: I always try and buy timeless pieces. I avoid fashion fads that are totally out by the next season. My sisters and I - with our Kardashian Kollection design partner Bruno Schiavi - always look to include timeless trends like lace and leopard print.
Are your looks very different? What do you like about each others style?
I think we all have a similar appreciation of style. Sometimes we do wear the same things and I love how my sisters can make something look so different. With my figure, I might belt a looser dress in to create focus on my waist line whilst Kourt looks fabulous in it worn loose.
--- Who is the Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl?
Kim: The girls and women that love fashion and style and are looking for affordable prices to look on trend.
KIM'S PERFECT LOOK:
KOURTNEY:
--- What is your favourite piece from the collection? How would you style it THREE different ways?
Kourtney: I love our gold sequin jacket - I think it's so stunning and workable for so many occasions. This is definitely one of my favourite pieces. I think sequins are fun and add a little boho flair.
My favourite way to wear this jacket is over a simple black top with faux leather tights. I would definitely wear this to a family dinner with black ballet flats or out with some suede black thigh high boots. A long gold necklace would work really well with a fun ring. I think a big black oversized bag would work best with this outfit.
If you want a way to really make a little black dress stand out then this jacket is perfect. Add chic black heels and a cool clutch.
If you're looking to add a touch of glam to the perfect daytime lunch outfit then this sequin blazer looks great with the sleeves rolled up over a white t shirt and jeans. You can roll up the bottoms of the jeans or leave them down depending on what works best for your body shape and pair with great sandals.
--- What is the one style rule you live by?
Kourtney: Have fun with fashion! Life is too short to take it seriously. I am a very moody dresser...I dress for my moods, so if I'm feeling a like having some fun, I will throw on a turban to spice things up a little bit. It's all about how clothes make you feel.
--- Are your looks very different? What do you like about each others style?
Kourtney: I'm definitely more adventurous with my style and am not afraid to go for bolder colours and prints. I think my sisters are so fashionable in general and really know how to rock their curvy figures. Kim always looks stunning in a bodycon dress whilst I love love love a leather look on Khloe. She can seriously pull off anything, especially with the amazing shoes she always has on. When packing for Miami, I told Kim that I would most definitely be offending her with my bright colors and prints, since she is an all black or an all white phase when it comes to her fashion.
--- Who is the Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl?
Kourtney: We really take inspiration from our fans - what they want, what they like and what they are looking to spend. They are our Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girls because they look to us for style inspiration and we're excited to finally be able to offer the UK our line.
KOURTNEY'S PERFECT LOOK:
KHLOE:
One of my favourite pieces of the UK line would be our Gold Bar Bodycon dress. The dress comes in different colours and prints like leopard print, green and red, but I can't go past classic black. The dress is tight fitting with long sleeves and a cut out below the neck highlighted by a gold bar. It's a super sexy dress, yet also conservative for a work to dinner look. I am a big fan of long sleeve classy dresses. This is a huge favourite of mine.
The dress is an ideal purchase in the lead up to holiday season and can be paired with rocking black heels and classic gold jewelry with a black clutch for the ultimate night out. This dress is perfect for an event where you want to look your best and make an impression.
For date night or dinner with someone special, throw a chic trench coat over the dress to keep warm. Our Kardashian Kollection line has a gorgeous lace trench coat that would go perfectly. Pair with heeled black ankle boots and wear your hair in a sleek ponytail. I think you should keep accessories to a minimum with this look. I am an earring girl so I would personally go towards a basic but fab gold hoop. If earrings aren't your thing, then keep it simple and wear a statement ring.
For a day time event where you still need to dress up a little, pair the dress with a great fitting denim jacket and gorgeous black flat sandals. A black tote would match the outfit perfectly and help keep all your daytime essentials with you.
--- What is the one style rule you live by?
Always dress for your body! Not every trend works for every body type. But I am a strong believer that every woman, no matter her size or age can incorporate the current trends of the season in to her look. Just remember to not lose yourself in finding the right way to wear a trend your way. Trendy doesn't mean you can't put your own personal signature on it.Know the ones that work for you and always accentuate your assets.
--- Are your looks very different? What do you like about each others style?
I think Kim and I have a similar style whilst Kourt definitely rocks brighter colours and prints more often. I take a leap out of her book sometimes and try to work in something really bright like coloured jeans. We notice our differences in our styles more when we are designing our collection with Bruno. There are things we all agree on like leopard print whilst there may be a top that one of us really likes more than others but we'll keep it in the line because it suits her style really well.
We have learned so much from in our design process. We have learned over the years that we cannot just design for ourselves. Our consumer is our voice and that's who we have to focus on. We love constructive criticism and we love fan feedback. We have always considered ourselves a social media brand. A brand for our fans and we wholeheartedly respect their wishes and we fight to give our consumers everything they wish for such as Kardashian Kurves which is our plus size line in America.
--- Who is the Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl?
The Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl loves timeless fashion and has a focus on the latest trends. It's a dream come true to be bringing our Kardashian Kollection line to the UK because we get to make it accessible to so many more of our fans through Dorothy Perkins. Our line includes all the things we love about fashion - the trends we love, the details we are crazy for and pieces that suit our body types - all designed for our fans and those who love fashion as much as we do.
KHLOE'S PERFECT LOOK:
Kardashian Kollection's launch at Dorothy Perkins and at Bras N' Things
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian have launched their line Kardashian Kollection in all the Dorothy Perkins' stores all around the United Kingdom today, November 8. Plus, they've also launched their line Kardashian Kollection Intimates at Brans N' Things in Australia!
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe will be meeting fans at Westfield in London!
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Happy birthday Lamar Odom!
Today is Lamar Odom's birthday: a basketball star, a television personality, a clothing line owner and a beautiful person. I'm proud to call him my idol.
Lamar, you're an amazing person in all the ways, I hope you'll like my collage and the letter I wrote on it!
Love, Dalila!
Khloe Kardashian at the "The X Factor" Finalists' party (November 6)
Khloe Kardashian, along with Mario Lopez and the X Factor's judges, was at the X Factor USA's party celebrating the 12 finalists of this exciting season! As you can see on the photos, Khloe was rocking a black, short dress, silver shoes and a metallic clutch!
Monday, November 5, 2012
Happy Birthday Kristen Mary Jenner!
Happy birthday to an amazing momager, hero and business woman who is Kristen Mary 'Kris' Jenner! Hope you have an amazing day full of love and joy, happiness and great moments as much as you deserve!
Thanks for inspiring me and my dolls everyday and for have gave birth to amazing children and to an amazing show!
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Khloe Kardashian & Mario Lopez talk about hosting The X Factor USA
Simon Cowell, one of the judges of the X Factor USA, posted this video of Khloe Kardashian & Mario Lopez talking about how they like and feel hosting the show!
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian cover US Weekly
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe teamed up with US Weekly once for all for defending their men and their relationships who always get muddy with rumors by media's.
"It's so sad when some publications make up such hurtful lies," Khloe, 28, tells Us. (One magazine claims that Khloe's husband, NBA star Lamar Odom, plans to leave his wife because she's hasn't yet conceived a child.)
Kim, is allegedly "pregnant and alone" yet planning a "surprise wedding" to Kanye West, according to one magazine's confusing recent cover stories. Counters the reality superstar, whose divorce from Kris Humphries isn't yet final: "I'm happy with my life the way that it is."
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian cover Cosmopolitan UK
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe were featured as cover girl on the December 2012 issue of Cosmopolitan UK. The girls are bringing their line 'Kardashian Kollection' in the UK this week, so what better of celebrating with a cover? You can get a copy of the December 2012 issue from Wednesday, November 7 at £3.60
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian for YOU Magazine
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe are the cover girls of the November 2012 issue of YOU Magazine UK.
UK fans can get a copy of the magazine for £1.50 now!
Read the interview below ---
As the glamorous epicentre of brand Kardashian, the Kardashian sisters – Kourtney, 33, Kim, 32, and Khloé, 28 – are worth tens of millions of dollars. Together they front one of the world’s most watched reality TV series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, along with its various spin-off shows. They own several clothing and lifestyle stores stocking, among other things, Kardashian mineral water and Kardashian beach towels; they oversee a make-up and fragrance line, and they design a fashion range called Kardashian Kollection, which is why we are meeting today, ahead of its launch in Dorothy Perkins stores across the UK on Thursday. They each own sprawling Los Angeles pads; have a combined Twitter following of 32 million, and sensational personal lives that have included a 72-day marriage, a 30-day courtship, infertility, on-screen childbirth, superstar boyfriends and a notorious sex tape.‘Because of our show, people think they know me and can tweet me anything’ Khloé
If the Kardashians have passed you by entirely then congratulations may be in order, along with concern over where it is that you’ve been hiding. Together with their extended family (the dysfunctionality of which has so far spawned seven seasons of Keeping Up With…) they are the current bread and butter of celebrity magazines and news sites, where they are so ubiquitous it seems strange that the spell check on my laptop questions their name. On an average day, the showbiz news section of MailOnline – to which half the female population is currently addicted – will run at least two stories on Kim alone, largely derived from her new relationship with music star Kanye West, her famously curvy figure and/or what she is wearing. A point that is not lost on Kim, who, it turns out, is a MailOnline reader herself. ‘I look at that site, just never the comments, right; you can’t waste your time on that,’ she says wryly. ‘Just two days ago it showed photos of me wearing something they said was unflattering. But it was the cutest, most comfortable dress by Alexander Wang. I mean, guys, come on – I was at an airport about to board a night flight! But it wasn’t tight and they didn’t approve,’ she says, shrugging coyly, acknowledging that between the big stories on her life – say, last year’s megabucks wedding to basketball player Kris Humphries, which lasted two and a half months – her significance comes by way of her curve appeal.
So much so that when I tell people I am meeting Kim and her sisters, the only thing anyone wants to know about is her bottom and how ample it is ‘in real reality’. The fuss around Kim’s derrière has reached, and possibly eclipsed, that of J-Lo’s. Plausibly, it is responsible for bottom-enhancing knickers, for padded jeans and even buttock implants (Kim resorted to X-raying her own during an episode of Keeping Up With… to prove she’d not had them surgically enhanced).
And so it is that when she and her sisters join me at New York’s Trump SoHo Hotel, in a small, beige suite that has views across to the River Hudson, I find myself tempted to ask if they can do a twirl before they sit down. We are here, after all, to talk about fashion, in which booties and bodies and body image play a large part. The Kardashians, it could be argued, promote a body type very much healthier than skinny models or self-starved starlets. They are not overweight; they are normal weight. They have a successful plus-size range, Kurves, and the Kardashian Kollection, which all three are decked out in today, is created under a strict ‘would we wear it ourselves?’ testing process.
Kim is dressed in a long black blazer which keeps her most famous asset hidden from view. Below a miniskirt, her legs are slim and tanned and she’s so diddy that when she props herself up on the sofa between her sisters and stretches her legs out in front of her, her Tom Ford-clad feet dangle off the edge. Kourtney, the eldest, but at ‘5ft-nothing’ the shortest, sits neatly on the front of the cushions, self-consciously smoothing her skater-style skirt and re-tucking a voluminous polka-dot blouse. Her hair is pinned up in the highest of buns. (‘It’s kind of a new look. This morning I googled my name and “bad hair”. It’s a good way to know what not to do.’) Khloé has opted for a black, figure-hugging pencil skirt that she looks so great in I feel compelled to recommend that anyone with a bottom they worry about dressing should rush ASAP to Dorothy Perkins to purchase one.
‘Our brand is about empowering women’ Kim
The Kardashians have been on the scene since 2007, when their show first aired on the E! TV channel. Before this they were not unlike any other preened and privileged young things about Hollywood – shopping was on Rodeo Drive, day trips were to Michael Jackson’s Neverland and nights out were with Paris Hilton. They’d already had a taste of fame courtesy of their late, limelight-loving father Robert, who was on O J Simpson’s defence team. (‘We thought my dad was the smartest man in the whole world. And if he thought O J was innocent, we were going to be on that side,’ Kim has said. Not an easy call – their mother, by then divorced from Robert, had been friends with O J’s murdered wife Nicole Brown.) The TV series sprang from an indiscretion on Kim’s part – a sex tape leaked by a former boyfriend gave her and in turn her family the level of notoriety that equals clout in Hollywood. Their mum Kris Jenner, now manager (‘momager’), 57 tomorrow, saw dollar signs and masterminded the show, which charts their far-from-average lives, a concept previously tried and tested by their friends the Osbournes.
The three sisters are rarely interviewed together. Perhaps their publicity machine fears a three-way will slip into ‘The Kim Show’ – when it comes to media attention she wipes the floor. For starters, she is responsible for more than half their combined Twitter tally. She is the ninth most-followed tweeter in the world (Lady Gaga is number one, Barack Obama number six) – were she to tweet you there’s a possibility you’d quickly find yourself with a batch of new followers equal to the population of, say, Armenia, the girls’ ancestral homeland. So she has power, but she is softly spoken and she looks either tired or timid, eyeing me with huge, dark Disney eyes. In the flesh it is Khloé who makes the biggest impression, in part because she is at least six inches taller than her elder sisters, but also because she is the most forthright and animated.
Arriving early, Khloé kicks off her heels, checking first if I would mind, and launches into a commentary about her own Twitter feed. ‘People are so weird,’ she declares, while scrolling her phone with her manicured thumb. She’s come directly from an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America where she’d mentioned her struggle to conceive with husband Lamar Odom, a professional basketball player to whom she became engaged just a month after their meeting in 2009 (her attempts to get pregnant have been a running theme in season seven of Keeping Up With…, as well as on the couple’s own show, Khloé and Lamar). ‘Because of our show, people think they know me and they can tweet me anything,’ she continues. ‘But, hello, sometimes it’s so inappropriate. I mean, they’re describing the positions they’ve, you know, actually used to get pregnant. How am I meant to respond?’
For Kourtney, this is one of her first work commitments following the birth of her second child Penelope in July (she already has a two-year-old son Mason with partner Scott Disick). The babies
add an all-important ‘working mom’ dynamic to the Kardashians’ ability to sell things and a new dimension to the inter-sister relationship. (Viewers recently witnessed Kourtney telling Kim she’d chosen Khloé as Mason’s guardian because, ‘Khloé goes home at night and cooks dinner; you’re just all about Kim right now.’) In our interview Kourtney is midway through explaining how their different OCD traits work well in business when Kim interrupts her. ‘OK, you seriously need to go and get some perfume,’ while scrunching up her nose and wafting her hand in front of her face. Kourtney stops, makes a quick aside (‘we had a little feeding accident earlier’) and shoots Kim a look that only a mother of a four-month-old whose younger sister has pointed out that she smells of baby sick can. Moments later she is interrupted again as Kim moves to the other end of the sofa, shuffling Khloé along as she goes. Problem averted and proof that you can be the quietest and still be the drama queen.
For fans of planet K, one of its great attractions is that, apart from their privileged upbringing and the constant jet-setting, the Kardashians also seem a little bit like the rest of us. There is little in the way of mystique – their brand is built on over-sharing and they film for 17 hours a day. ‘There is nothing we wouldn’t show; we film everything,’ says Khloé. ‘Except going to the bathroom,’ adds Kim. ‘Oh, that’s nice to mention, Kim,’ quips Kourtney. We see them roll out of bed in the morning and eating leftovers straight from the fridge; we’re with them for their weddings, their holidays, their bikini waxes, their dental appointments, and Kourtney has now given birth twice on the programme.
‘We do have editing rights, we just don’t use them,’ says Khloé, claiming there is nothing they regret showing. ‘By the time any programme airs, everything we’ve been through is behind us, so whatever it is it’s not such an open wound,’ she says. Some must be harder to watch than others: their home videos document the build-up to and subsequent breakdown of Kim’s short-lived marriage to the conveniently monikered Kris Humphries. The wedding, in August 2011, was marred by controversy as Kim was accused of making more than £11 million from what critics deemed was a farce. So is there anything they’d never watch back? ‘No, because every season is so special to us,’ says Kim. ‘Each is a time period where there is something we were going through that means something in our lives, no matter what it is.’
In June, Helen Wright, headmistress of girls’ boarding school St Mary’s Calne in Wiltshire, declared at a teachers’ conference that an image of Kim Kardashian in her underwear on the cover of Zoomagazine represented ‘almost everything that is wrong with Western society today’. No one would deny the existence of superficiality in the world that the Kardashians inhabit, or the fact that Kim is a sex symbol who trades on her looks, but Wright’s comments fuelled debate over what it means to be a role model. Are working hard, looking good and behaving well not enough? I ask the sisters whether they worry about the pressure of being role models for the young women who will buy their dresses.
‘You have to take responsibility for the role you’ve been given, and I think our brand is about empowering women,’ Kim says. ‘Just last night I was with some girlfriends and we were saying how much we enjoy encouraging women to start businesses.
‘I feel being a role model goes beyond fashion or body image. Yes, it’s about looking and feeling our best, not just in what we wear but in health and fitness and beauty, too. It’s about a strong work ethic, about being the best we can be every day.’
‘For me it’s about owning who we are,’ adds Khloé. ‘I mean, we are Armenian and I get people thanking me all the time for bringing awareness to the Armenian community. So we do stand for something – owning who you are no matter who that is.’
Read the interview below ---
As the glamorous epicentre of brand Kardashian, the Kardashian sisters – Kourtney, 33, Kim, 32, and Khloé, 28 – are worth tens of millions of dollars. Together they front one of the world’s most watched reality TV series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, along with its various spin-off shows. They own several clothing and lifestyle stores stocking, among other things, Kardashian mineral water and Kardashian beach towels; they oversee a make-up and fragrance line, and they design a fashion range called Kardashian Kollection, which is why we are meeting today, ahead of its launch in Dorothy Perkins stores across the UK on Thursday. They each own sprawling Los Angeles pads; have a combined Twitter following of 32 million, and sensational personal lives that have included a 72-day marriage, a 30-day courtship, infertility, on-screen childbirth, superstar boyfriends and a notorious sex tape.‘Because of our show, people think they know me and can tweet me anything’ Khloé
If the Kardashians have passed you by entirely then congratulations may be in order, along with concern over where it is that you’ve been hiding. Together with their extended family (the dysfunctionality of which has so far spawned seven seasons of Keeping Up With…) they are the current bread and butter of celebrity magazines and news sites, where they are so ubiquitous it seems strange that the spell check on my laptop questions their name. On an average day, the showbiz news section of MailOnline – to which half the female population is currently addicted – will run at least two stories on Kim alone, largely derived from her new relationship with music star Kanye West, her famously curvy figure and/or what she is wearing. A point that is not lost on Kim, who, it turns out, is a MailOnline reader herself. ‘I look at that site, just never the comments, right; you can’t waste your time on that,’ she says wryly. ‘Just two days ago it showed photos of me wearing something they said was unflattering. But it was the cutest, most comfortable dress by Alexander Wang. I mean, guys, come on – I was at an airport about to board a night flight! But it wasn’t tight and they didn’t approve,’ she says, shrugging coyly, acknowledging that between the big stories on her life – say, last year’s megabucks wedding to basketball player Kris Humphries, which lasted two and a half months – her significance comes by way of her curve appeal.
So much so that when I tell people I am meeting Kim and her sisters, the only thing anyone wants to know about is her bottom and how ample it is ‘in real reality’. The fuss around Kim’s derrière has reached, and possibly eclipsed, that of J-Lo’s. Plausibly, it is responsible for bottom-enhancing knickers, for padded jeans and even buttock implants (Kim resorted to X-raying her own during an episode of Keeping Up With… to prove she’d not had them surgically enhanced).
And so it is that when she and her sisters join me at New York’s Trump SoHo Hotel, in a small, beige suite that has views across to the River Hudson, I find myself tempted to ask if they can do a twirl before they sit down. We are here, after all, to talk about fashion, in which booties and bodies and body image play a large part. The Kardashians, it could be argued, promote a body type very much healthier than skinny models or self-starved starlets. They are not overweight; they are normal weight. They have a successful plus-size range, Kurves, and the Kardashian Kollection, which all three are decked out in today, is created under a strict ‘would we wear it ourselves?’ testing process.
Kim is dressed in a long black blazer which keeps her most famous asset hidden from view. Below a miniskirt, her legs are slim and tanned and she’s so diddy that when she props herself up on the sofa between her sisters and stretches her legs out in front of her, her Tom Ford-clad feet dangle off the edge. Kourtney, the eldest, but at ‘5ft-nothing’ the shortest, sits neatly on the front of the cushions, self-consciously smoothing her skater-style skirt and re-tucking a voluminous polka-dot blouse. Her hair is pinned up in the highest of buns. (‘It’s kind of a new look. This morning I googled my name and “bad hair”. It’s a good way to know what not to do.’) Khloé has opted for a black, figure-hugging pencil skirt that she looks so great in I feel compelled to recommend that anyone with a bottom they worry about dressing should rush ASAP to Dorothy Perkins to purchase one.
‘Our brand is about empowering women’ Kim
The Kardashians have been on the scene since 2007, when their show first aired on the E! TV channel. Before this they were not unlike any other preened and privileged young things about Hollywood – shopping was on Rodeo Drive, day trips were to Michael Jackson’s Neverland and nights out were with Paris Hilton. They’d already had a taste of fame courtesy of their late, limelight-loving father Robert, who was on O J Simpson’s defence team. (‘We thought my dad was the smartest man in the whole world. And if he thought O J was innocent, we were going to be on that side,’ Kim has said. Not an easy call – their mother, by then divorced from Robert, had been friends with O J’s murdered wife Nicole Brown.) The TV series sprang from an indiscretion on Kim’s part – a sex tape leaked by a former boyfriend gave her and in turn her family the level of notoriety that equals clout in Hollywood. Their mum Kris Jenner, now manager (‘momager’), 57 tomorrow, saw dollar signs and masterminded the show, which charts their far-from-average lives, a concept previously tried and tested by their friends the Osbournes.
The three sisters are rarely interviewed together. Perhaps their publicity machine fears a three-way will slip into ‘The Kim Show’ – when it comes to media attention she wipes the floor. For starters, she is responsible for more than half their combined Twitter tally. She is the ninth most-followed tweeter in the world (Lady Gaga is number one, Barack Obama number six) – were she to tweet you there’s a possibility you’d quickly find yourself with a batch of new followers equal to the population of, say, Armenia, the girls’ ancestral homeland. So she has power, but she is softly spoken and she looks either tired or timid, eyeing me with huge, dark Disney eyes. In the flesh it is Khloé who makes the biggest impression, in part because she is at least six inches taller than her elder sisters, but also because she is the most forthright and animated.
Arriving early, Khloé kicks off her heels, checking first if I would mind, and launches into a commentary about her own Twitter feed. ‘People are so weird,’ she declares, while scrolling her phone with her manicured thumb. She’s come directly from an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America where she’d mentioned her struggle to conceive with husband Lamar Odom, a professional basketball player to whom she became engaged just a month after their meeting in 2009 (her attempts to get pregnant have been a running theme in season seven of Keeping Up With…, as well as on the couple’s own show, Khloé and Lamar). ‘Because of our show, people think they know me and they can tweet me anything,’ she continues. ‘But, hello, sometimes it’s so inappropriate. I mean, they’re describing the positions they’ve, you know, actually used to get pregnant. How am I meant to respond?’
For Kourtney, this is one of her first work commitments following the birth of her second child Penelope in July (she already has a two-year-old son Mason with partner Scott Disick). The babies
add an all-important ‘working mom’ dynamic to the Kardashians’ ability to sell things and a new dimension to the inter-sister relationship. (Viewers recently witnessed Kourtney telling Kim she’d chosen Khloé as Mason’s guardian because, ‘Khloé goes home at night and cooks dinner; you’re just all about Kim right now.’) In our interview Kourtney is midway through explaining how their different OCD traits work well in business when Kim interrupts her. ‘OK, you seriously need to go and get some perfume,’ while scrunching up her nose and wafting her hand in front of her face. Kourtney stops, makes a quick aside (‘we had a little feeding accident earlier’) and shoots Kim a look that only a mother of a four-month-old whose younger sister has pointed out that she smells of baby sick can. Moments later she is interrupted again as Kim moves to the other end of the sofa, shuffling Khloé along as she goes. Problem averted and proof that you can be the quietest and still be the drama queen.
For fans of planet K, one of its great attractions is that, apart from their privileged upbringing and the constant jet-setting, the Kardashians also seem a little bit like the rest of us. There is little in the way of mystique – their brand is built on over-sharing and they film for 17 hours a day. ‘There is nothing we wouldn’t show; we film everything,’ says Khloé. ‘Except going to the bathroom,’ adds Kim. ‘Oh, that’s nice to mention, Kim,’ quips Kourtney. We see them roll out of bed in the morning and eating leftovers straight from the fridge; we’re with them for their weddings, their holidays, their bikini waxes, their dental appointments, and Kourtney has now given birth twice on the programme.
‘We do have editing rights, we just don’t use them,’ says Khloé, claiming there is nothing they regret showing. ‘By the time any programme airs, everything we’ve been through is behind us, so whatever it is it’s not such an open wound,’ she says. Some must be harder to watch than others: their home videos document the build-up to and subsequent breakdown of Kim’s short-lived marriage to the conveniently monikered Kris Humphries. The wedding, in August 2011, was marred by controversy as Kim was accused of making more than £11 million from what critics deemed was a farce. So is there anything they’d never watch back? ‘No, because every season is so special to us,’ says Kim. ‘Each is a time period where there is something we were going through that means something in our lives, no matter what it is.’
In June, Helen Wright, headmistress of girls’ boarding school St Mary’s Calne in Wiltshire, declared at a teachers’ conference that an image of Kim Kardashian in her underwear on the cover of Zoomagazine represented ‘almost everything that is wrong with Western society today’. No one would deny the existence of superficiality in the world that the Kardashians inhabit, or the fact that Kim is a sex symbol who trades on her looks, but Wright’s comments fuelled debate over what it means to be a role model. Are working hard, looking good and behaving well not enough? I ask the sisters whether they worry about the pressure of being role models for the young women who will buy their dresses.
‘You have to take responsibility for the role you’ve been given, and I think our brand is about empowering women,’ Kim says. ‘Just last night I was with some girlfriends and we were saying how much we enjoy encouraging women to start businesses.
‘I feel being a role model goes beyond fashion or body image. Yes, it’s about looking and feeling our best, not just in what we wear but in health and fitness and beauty, too. It’s about a strong work ethic, about being the best we can be every day.’
‘For me it’s about owning who we are,’ adds Khloé. ‘I mean, we are Armenian and I get people thanking me all the time for bringing awareness to the Armenian community. So we do stand for something – owning who you are no matter who that is.’
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Kendall & Kris Jenner at 'Nomad Two Worlds' launch in Sydney, Australia (November 1st)
Kris Jenner and Kendall Jenner were seen arriving and attending the book by Russell James lunch on November 1 in Sydney, Australia.
Kourtney Kardashian, Scott Disick, Jonathan Cheban, Simon Hunk and Kanye West at Kim Kardashian's birthday Halloween bash at LIV Miami (October 31)
What an amazing night! Kourtney Kardashian, Scott Disick, Jonathan Cheban, Simon Hunk and Kanye West, with all the boys of the Hogan family, were at the LIV Fontainebleau Miami nightclub in Miami Florida celebrating Kim Kardashian's Halloween birthday bash. Kim was dressed as Cat Woman, Kanye as Batman, Kourtney as Last Night and Scott as Robin.
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