Fabulosity, Kimora Lee Simmons' junior line for JCPenney, is now available in stores and online. I was not looking forward to the launch of this collection, and after seeing the limited selection of tees, tube tops and denim pieces that are now at JCPenney.com, I gotta say it ain't good. Now let's just forget about Kimora for a moment here, because at the end of the day, she is irrelevant. You may admire her ambition, her work ethic, and her no-nonsense approach to business and even motherhood, but at the end of the day, as a customer, you will be stuck wearing a tacky t-shirt with a cheesy "Fabulosity" logo that bears no resemblance to it's creator and her high-end, jet-setting lifestyle. I felt the same way about Bitten by Sarah Jessica Parker - as much as I adore the actress and everything she's done for fashion, I couldn't find a single wearable item in her so-called clothing line for Steve and Barry's. Fabulosity is fake streetwear. It's big companies saying, hey! Let's make a buck off what the kids are wearing today! So don't be fooled. I truly admire streetwear, and the real deal is not sold at JCPenney. If you want streetwear, shop at Karmaloop.com or Untitled. Fabulosity is akin to wearing a Hannah Montana t-shirt or SpongeBob SquarePants PJs - it's gimmicky, it's tacky and it's not cool unless you're under 10 years old. And if you don't believe me, I would simply say that I obviously do not decide what is and isn't cool. Cool is fleeting, cool is ethereal, cool is, well, something we're all chasing. Fabulosity is not it.
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.. things we admire about kimora lee? come on, she married big money, milked it, divorced it and is tack personified. work ethic? having a bunch of minions at your beck and call is a work ethic? diane von furstenburg cutting her own materials and actually doing the work on her wrap dress in the 70's - that's work ethic. and she's still going strong in her 60's. there's a woman in fashion who you can admire, someone who actually has input into the clothing line.
and you're absolutely right about 'cool.' you can't buy it, you can't force it. you either have it or you don't. like class.
these clothes ain't it.
love, love, love that!
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Now on to KLS - tacky, tacky, tacky. It's not even close to streetwear - more like cheap stripper wear. Purses are plastic, shoes are plastic. It would be different if she was vegan and her product came out like Matt/Nat - but she's not - it's just cheap reproductions. "Her" styles (I seriously doubt she has any design sense) are hideous - not something anyone over the age of 12 should be seen in. And to top it all off - her perfume stinks.
At least J-Lo's perfumes are actually wearable.
But I'm with Neira . Celebs who are putting their names on fashion labels without going the trenches of design school or even cutting their own patterns, is just a shameless plug and boost to their egos.
Ok - I'm done pouting -back to watching Project Runway!
not to change the subject but did you hear miley gave some paparazzis the finger while she was out walking with her kid sister? how quickly they grow up. do i see a brit-brit in the making?
and they gave the prices for that garbage too, $50 for a top?! Are the INSANE? lmao!
But i digress, back to the clothes. I wear a lot of street and urban wear and I find alot of the clothing, at least the ones that dont have her name all over them, a giant cat screen or some other tacky reference all over it to be acceptable. NOTHING Ive seen over at J. C. Penny or in the Fabulosity line on the whole are what I'd call acceptable but just scanning the pik I do love the black jacket.