BABY PHAT
Love her or hate her – there’s never anything in between – Kimora Lee Simmons was born to put on a show.
Cue the music – DJ Cassidy in the booth – and start the video, a 10-year retrospective on Baby Phat’s double-digit birthday.
“I wanted to push the Baby Phat lifestyle. It’s aspirational. To be fabulous. To be bigger than this life,” Simmons says.
Almost an hour late – the show was held for Vogue big daddy Andre Leon Talley – front – row friends Maxwell, Serena Williams, Djimon Hounsou and Aubrey O’Day (with her cotton-candy colored tye-dye mini dog) didn’t seem to mind, shaking their shoulders and bopping their heads to Lil Wayne’s “A Milli , ” Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” and Rihanna’s “Please Don’t Stop the Music . ”
It was a bit of a puzzling start with safari-style dresses and pantsuits but quickly took a fabulous turn with grossly oversized “python” backpacks, super stretchy spandex cropped jumpsuits, two Pocahontas-style brown leather vests with dangling leather tassels and a gold cut – out monokini under a sheer pastel caftan.
Sigh.
If only every day ended with a dose of Baby Phat the world would truly be a better place.


