Kardashian, Kim

April 2, 2020

Inside Kim Kardashian’s Prison-Reform Machine

Kim Kardashian West breezed into a steakhouse in Washington, D.C., last month, wearing a bright white outfit with a giant fabric flower on the lapel. Technically, […]
February 6, 2020

Kim Kardashian Has Learned Restraint

LOS ANGELES — When Kim Kardashian West says it, she’s not being funny. She doesn’t smile. She is professional and sincere, and that sincerity is worth […]
November 25, 2019

When Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star

Celebrity culture, in the first decade of this century, took the form of a kind of misogynistic death cult. Somewhere in Hollywood, Lindsay Lohan was falling […]
January 12, 2018

The Operative: Kardashian Bestie Simon Huck Is Selling You Beer and Shampoo

Advertisement “I’m up before the birds,” said Simon Huck, sitting in his living room lined with velvet walls that change color depending on the light. It […]
June 19, 2017

Style Q & A: Kim Kardashian on Her New Beauty Line and Those Blackface Allegations

When it comes to beauty influencers, Kim Kardashian West can be credited as a pioneer. With her longtime makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic, she lauded the benefits […]
October 19, 2016

Cultural Studies: During a Social Media Break, Kim Kardashian West Offers ‘More Me’

The publication of the new, expanded edition of Kim Kardashian West’s 2015 book of self-portraits, “Selfish,” comes at an unusual moment for the reality star. Following […]
October 12, 2016

Unbuttoned: Fashion Becomes a Victim of Its Own Oversharing

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN We all know about the trends that come out of the four-week circus of shows otherwise known as fashion month, which began […]
July 23, 2016

Taylor Swift Is Summering in Rhode Island. Locals Just Shake It Off.

WATCH HILL, R.I. — You can’t miss High Watch, a rambling, white clapboard 1920s “cottage” that sprawls atop the bluff that gives this town its name, […]