Fabulosity Hits JCPenney

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Sunday, July 20. 2008

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.

>> Not convinced? Shop Fabulosity at JCPenney.com

Posted by The Budget Babe in Budget Fashion, Celebrity Style, Fashion Radar at 19:53 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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You're right on the money. I'm getting sick and tired of all these actresses and celebrities trying to start their own line, and in the end you lose respect for their fashion statements and all you get is pure tackiness. I personally think they have no say in any of the choices, they just put down their money and that's it. Im yet to see a celebrity starting a line that actually screams GREAT fashion and at least even a couture line.

#1 Neira on 2008-07-20 22:34 (Reply)

i used to think j lo's perfumes with the charms on the bottle were tacky. they are absolute chic compared to this.
.. 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.

#2 maggie z on 2008-07-21 09:53 (Reply)

hahahahahahah!!!!! Those clothes are horrid!!! Kimora lee would never be caught dead wearing ANY of them, what a hypocrite!!!

#3 Peaches on 2008-07-21 10:20 (Reply)

Actually, Kimora wears aquite a few pieces from her Baby Phat line. Watching her show and seeing her in candid shots, I've noticed she mostly wears clothing she has designed.

#3.1 Joann on 2008-07-22 15:40 (Reply)

I really don't like Baby Phat clothes line. I think it's ugly. I also don't like SJP Bitten line. Nothing is eyecatching. Except that I bought one pair of skinny jeans which fit me perfectly. Afterall, it's a generically-styled skinny jeans, so I bought it.

#4 bingkee on 2008-07-21 10:28 (Reply)

Here here.

#5 Sal (Homepage) on 2008-07-21 12:46 (Reply)

love the look, sometimes i like kimora's things and sometimes i don't.... but i'm glad that she is not putting her symbol all over the clothes.... .

love, love, love that!

"Have you had your dose of 'Joi' today?"
www.ubringmejoi.com

#6 ubringmejoi (Homepage) on 2008-07-21 15:37 (Reply)

Are you kidding me? The clothes are horrendous, AND kimora is trashy. Absolutely no salvation for this line no matter which way you look at it! Supporting lines like this is a mockery of real fashion, and REAL people!

#6.1 Peaches on 2008-07-21 15:47 (Reply)

I've gotta say that I have purchase, been given, 2 dresses from SJP. A LBD which is low cut in the right places and snug in the right places. Otherwise, the rest of the line is terrible - jeans = too much black girl butt gap; t-shirts too snug; shoes are just plain CHEAP!

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!

#7 TexNYQueen on 2008-07-21 16:22 (Reply)

i agree with the comment above. 60 minutes did an interview with kls and the reporter asked her what she thinks of the fact that parents say her clothes make their daughters look like hookers. ha ha ha. she made this face like she wanted to kill the reporter but sucked it in and smiled and made some dumb-ass comment about this is what the kids like - blah blah blah.
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?

#8 pirate jenny on 2008-07-21 19:10 (Reply)

I saw Kimora on Access Hollywood talking about how she would "like totally wear the clothes, like, all day long and everything!" ----vomits---

and they gave the prices for that garbage too, $50 for a top?! Are the INSANE? lmao!

#9 Peaches on 2008-07-22 00:15 (Reply)

I think Kimora Lee is no fashion mogul. She is simply a boisterous celebrity who inherits big money from her rich ex-hubby and makes business out of it.

#10 sasha on 2008-07-22 07:27 (Reply)

haha I would have to agree. KLS would not be caught dead in any of this and even in the pictures the clothes look cheap and generic. The same goes for Bitten. I could see Kimora actually wearing Baby Phat, but that "designer" line is way to ghetto-fab for me. I like her "love myself" attitude, but a fashion designer she is not.

#11 MizzJ (Homepage) on 2008-07-23 02:32 (Reply)

Ummmm so i know i may be skinned but i do admire the things mentioned about Kimora in the article. Furthermore-I guess Im a little gullible- I also believe that her marriage wasnt one of convenience and that her husband did also benefit from her savvy in allowing her the money to open BabyPhat.

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.

#12 Shanelly (Homepage) on 2008-07-26 10:43 (Reply)

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