Kardashians in the Media

[GaT]

1 hour ago, vast wasteland said:

Kylie and Kendall wrote a book?

 

They "wrote" 2 books there was a sequel, "Time of the Twins: The Story of Lex and Livia". Amazon lists the authors like this:

 

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by Kendall Jenner  (Author), Kylie Jenner (Author), Elizabeth Killmond-Roman (Author), Katherine Killmond (Author)

LOL, my guess is that Kendall wrote "The" & Kylie wrote "End" & the other two people wrote everything else. 

[vast wasteland]

Transparent creator Jill Soloway on why The Kardashians are feminist heroes

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The show I watch the most to find out about families is The Kardashians.

Edited December 31, 2018 by vast wasteland

[GaT]

54 minutes ago, vast wasteland said:

Transparent creator Jill Soloway on why The Kardashians are feminist heroes

You know how sometimes you hear someone speak & you just want to slap them upside the head until they cry? Yeah.

[vast wasteland]

There are a lot of enticing things that money can provide.  For instance, imagine having a party on the scale of the Kardashians Christmas Eve, and then just days later being fully prepared for a snow vacation.  The idea of getting up the day after a party and having an army of people cleaning up is just mind boggling to me.  There are so many ancillary support systems that money can provide.  I wish they would show a bit more of that on their TV show, because it interests me.  The idea of NEVER having to clean my house, yet the house is always clean?  Priceless.

[vast wasteland]

Vocal fry: Kim Kardashian inspires generation of creaky, croaky drawlers

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Scientists have found more women are speaking with a rough voice – or "extreme vocal fry" – by lowering the sound of their voice to imitate American stars like the Kardashian family, Katy Perry and Britney Spears.

Persistent offender and Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kim Kardashian has become the poster child for the croaky drawl, which is twice as common in young women as their older counterparts, according to research by Christchurch clinicians.

Omigod!  There is a name for it and it has been studied!  Drives me crazy.

[vast wasteland]

MTV’s ‘True Life’ returns with a big Kardashian booty obsession

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Chela Perez in "True Life/Now: Obsessed With the Perfect Booty"

Perez, who credits her bottom with her burgeoning career, and two other subjects — an army wife and a teenage boy — will stop at nothing to attain the perfect hourglass figure, made famous by the Kardashians and propagated endlessly on social media. The makeover docuseries, which includes installments on Kardashian fever, looking like Snapchat filters, and revenge porn, looks at the sacrifices made for taut tushes: money, time, and in Perez’s case, her relationship.

 

As for the patron saint of ass, Johnson has learned who’s on top: “Kim Kardashian is the ideal body type for everyone who wants this type of physique.”

 

Other “True Life” subjects contemplate more invasive ways of getting the ideal derrière.

Joey has a dream.

“I don’t want a Kim butt — I don’t want it to be scary,” says 17-year-old Joey, discussing his upcoming Brazilian butt lift with his parents over breakfast at their Springfield, Illinois, home.

“But I want a Kylie butt at least.”

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Top 10 biggest Kardashian controversies

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What better way to kick off 2019 than with a Kardashian kontroversy?

The Kardashians are one of the most talked about family's on the planet – but they don't always hit the headlines for the right reasons. 

The reality TV clan has sparked all number of controversies from accusations of revenge porn to cultural appropriation as well as appearing to back Kanye West in the wake of his support for President Donald Trump.

 

So in honour of another Kardashian kontroversy, we’ve rounded up the family’s biggest ‘what were they thinking?!’ moments.

[vast wasteland]

Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian reunite in Calabasas to film the 16th season of their reality show

 I think Kourtney looks gorgeous here.  Looks like a genuine smile to me.

[BitterApple]

Kourtney looks exactly like Kris in her younger days. 

[GaT]

Khloe doesn't look nearly as pale as she does in her recent IG photos, so she must be making herself look lighter. I still think  she's doing it to make True look lighter.

[Pinke]

7 hours ago, GaT said:

Khloe doesn't look nearly as pale as she does in her recent IG photos, so she must be making herself look lighter. I still think  she's doing it to make True look lighter.

I think so too.

[nexxie]

Khloe, Kim and Kourtney are on WWHL now - Andy keeps saying “KhloA.” Ha!

[vast wasteland]

Lots of throwback Kardashian vignettes

[iwasish]

Is anyone else getting Proactive ads on this forum? None so far with Kendall. 

[Nicmar]

On 1/19/2019 at 10:32 PM, iwasish said:

Is anyone else getting Proactive ads on this forum? None so far with Kendall. 

I did a couple of days ago, And that's the last time i saw it. I doubt she has debilitating acne like she claim she does.its a calculated attempt to make more money.

[iwasish]

34 minutes ago, Nicmar said:

I did a couple of days ago, And that's the last time i saw it. I doubt she has debilitating acne like she claim she does.its a calculated attempt to make more money.

What exactly is “enough” money?

i doubt any of them or their kids will have to work another day in their lives. Time to stop whoring yourselves for another few bucks. If she really wanted to help poor acne ridden kids, she could have revealed her secret anguish years ago. 

[Nicmar]

24 minutes ago, iwasish said:

What exactly is “enough†money?

i doubt any of them or their kids will have to work another day in their lives. Time to stop whoring yourselves for another few bucks. If she really wanted to help poor acne ridden kids, she could have revealed her secret anguish years ago. 

They are greedy assholes

[vast wasteland]

Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery

I've been trying to think of a way to discuss this, specifically in regard to Khloe.  Something along the lines of the disappointment she must feel when all the makeup and filters are gone and she doesn't look like she does with all the artifice.  The disconnect between reality and manipulation.

This article addresses that.  I didn't realize how pervasive the Instagram filtered selfies have become.  To take a filtered, manipulated image of yourself to a plastic surgeon and ask for that face?  And think that that face is actually a possibility?  And so much better than your own?  To say nothing of the cost, and the probability that the result will still not satisfy.  And the risks.

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The phenomenon of people requesting procedures to resemble their digital image has been referred to – sometimes flippantly, sometimes as a harbinger of end times – as “Snapchat dysmorphia”. The term was coined by the cosmetic doctor Tijion Esho, founder of the Esho clinics in London and Newcastle. He had noticed that where patients had once brought in pictures of celebrities with their ideal nose or jaw, they were now pointing to photos of themselves.

While some used their selfies – typically edited with Snapchat or the airbrushing app Facetune – as a guide, others would say, “‘I want to actually look like this’, with the large eyes and the pixel-perfect skin,” says Esho. “And that’s an unrealistic, unattainable thing.”

A recent report in the US medical journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery suggested that filtered images’ “blurring the line of reality and fantasy” could be triggering body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a mental health condition where people become fixated on imagined defects in their appearance.

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However, a 2017 study in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications found that people only recognised manipulated images 60%-65% of the time. Esho says the pervasiveness of airbrushing on social media means it can create “unrealistic expectations of what is normal” and lower the self-esteem of those who don’t use it: “It’s a vicious cycle.”

When the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery surveyed its members in 2017, 55% of surgeons said patients’ motivation was to look better in selfies, up from just 13% in 2016.

And addressing our Favorite Family:

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The rise of fillers – anything from collagen and hyaluronic acid, which break down in a matter of months, to the permanent but riskier polymethyl methacrylate beads – has been accelerated by celebrity endorsements from the likes of the Kardashian clan. The removal and subsequent return of Kylie Jenner’s lip fillers have been followed with particular interest. Some doctors try to capitalise on this with “the Kylie package” for nose, jaw and lips, says Taktouk, disapprovingly. Ten years ago, his clients were deeply concerned with patient confidentiality; “Now, it’s ‘Do you mind if I Insta-story this?’ It’s not taboo any more.” He has seen lips advertised for £150 and noses for £200-£300. “And that’s one of the trickiest procedures of the lot.”

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It prompts the question: which are you trying to correct, the image or the reality?

Edited January 24, 2019 by vast wasteland

[Cocoa Puff]

3 hours ago, iwasish said:

What exactly is “enough” money?

i doubt any of them or their kids will have to work another day in their lives. Time to stop whoring yourselves for another few bucks. If she really wanted to help poor acne ridden kids, she could have revealed her secret anguish years ago. 

Well they're not wealthy only rich, except for Kylie she's the only that one that is wealthy enough money to keep her great grandchildren rolling in the money at the rate she's going.

But Kim, Khloe and Kourtney and even rob by some extent they are "only" multi-millionaires so they have to keep the income coming in because I can imagine with all the property taxes on the luxury homes that they have, the staff, and the  the cars and everything else it's a lot to upkeep so I can imagine that they are spending as much as coming in. 

So they probably don't have enough money.

[DangerousMinds]

Make me a multimillionaire and I can live perfectly comfortably and never have to work again.  I’ll invest lots of the money and promise i’ll Even have plenty to donate to good causes. Try me.

Edited January 24, 2019 by DangerousMinds

[Cocoa Puff]

38 minutes ago, DangerousMinds said:

Make me a multimillionaire and I can live perfectly comfortably and never have to work again.  I’ll invest lots of the money and promise i’ll Even have plenty to donate to good causes. Try me.

Oh me too but we're "regular" folk who don't need multimillion-dollar homes and expensive cities like Los Angeles, New York or Miami and we also don't need $30,000 birkin bags and luxury vehicles like Bentley and rolls-royces and range rovers to drive around in, Or multiple staff to run our households if we had the bank accounts of the Kardashian-Jenners.

Could you imagine Kim driving a Lexus or Audi? Or living in a modest home like the house Kris and Caitlin had when the show first aired? 

[Scout Finch]

On 1/23/2019 at 5:16 PM, carolinagirl81 said:

Oh me too but we're "regular" folk who don't need multimillion-dollar homes and expensive cities like Los Angeles, New York or Miami and we also don't need $30,000 birkin bags and luxury vehicles like Bentley and rolls-royces and range rovers to drive around in, Or multiple staff to run our households if we had the bank accounts of the Kardashian-Jenners.

Could you imagine Kim driving a Lexus or Audi? Or living in a modest home like the house Kris and Caitlin had when the show first aired? 

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Hey, hey, now, not so fast! Some of us NEED a Birkin!...okay, how about greatly desire one? 

[Cocoa Puff]

4 hours ago, Scout Finch said:

Hey, hey, now, not so fast! Some of us NEED a Birkin!...okay, how about greatly desire one? 

LoL I greatly desire one too, they are a good investment, Seriously they retain their value. I actually looked up what luxury items retain their value and Birkin bags were at the top of the list.

So if the Kardashian-Jenners ever need to sell something for some quick cash they can hock the Birkins.

[AntAnn]

18 hours ago, Scout Finch said:

Hey, hey, now, not so fast! Some of us NEED a Birkin!...okay, how about greatly desire one? 

Raises hand! A Birkin has been on my Wish list for about 20 years. They are an investment piece.

[Talky Tina]

I have never wanted one and I think they're ridiculous.  They don't do anything more than my 30 dollar hobo purse does.  I think it's sickening what a damn PURSE costs. 

[GaT]

Just now, Talky Tina said:

I have never wanted one and I think they're ridiculous.  They don't do anything more than my 30 dollar hobo purse does.  I think it's sickening what a damn PURSE costs. 

A lot of times they cost the celebrity nothing. The company may give them as a gift to someone who is hot at the moment. Then of course there are people with no taste who just buy things because they are expensive. Like this terrifying Birkin Kanye had painted as a gift for Kim. She walked around with it one day, & we never saw it again. Or when Kanye again decided to waste a ton of money when he bought another Birkin for Kim, but this time had North decorate it, also only seen for one day.

[RHJunkie]

Even if cost $50, if I have to buy a damn coat for my purse to protect it from the rain and snow, it's already too high maintenance for me and requires more energy than should be necessary just to own it, lol. 

[teapot]

On 1/28/2019 at 3:17 PM, Talky Tina said:

I have never wanted one and I think they're ridiculous.  They don't do anything more than my 30 dollar hobo purse does.  I think it's sickening what a damn PURSE costs. 

I don't even think they're pretty, they remind me too much of the purses my Nana carried in the 70s.  I like a less structured style.

[vast wasteland]

Kim Kardashian Shares Adorable Photo Of The New Jenneration: Stormi And Chicago

[vast wasteland]

Kim Kardashian's birthday tribute to Stormi stirs up parenting police: Baby walkers are 'dangerous'

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While the photo is certainly cuteness overload, many commenters are sharing their opinions about seeing the girls in “dangerous” walkers, which the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long advised against using.

One of the first to point out that the Bright Starts Pretty in Pink Walk-A-Bout Baby Walkers is problematic was one commenter, who wrote, “Low key stresses me out how no one has said anything about walkers like these being extremely unsafe and recommended against by all pediatricians with a license to practice.”

Another chimed in, “Those things are super unsafe. They are banned in Canada.”

A commenter posted, “@kimkardashian currently we stop using this accessory in Europe because it may cause future damages in the way kids walk, it can also delay it and it’s dangerous in many ways. They suggest to use for example a baby hand push walker.”

There were many other similar ones, including one user’s, who wrote, “Remember the crawling stage is vital for development and keep use of chairs to a minimum. Happy birthday.”

There is certainly reason for concern. According to the AAP, in 1999, an estimated 8,800 children younger than 15 months were treated in hospital emergency departments in the U.S. for injuries associated with infant walkers. And there were 34 infant walker-related deaths were reported from 1973 through 1998. Most of the injuries occurred when they accidentally went down stairs. Further, “walkers do not help a child learn to walk” and “can delay normal motor and mental development,” the org said. A study last year supported the AAP’s call or a ban on them.

[BitterApple]

I think the parenting police are getting a little ridiculous. Both Chicago and Stormi seem to toddle along just fine. I'm also sure their nannies were watching them. I doubt the babies were just plopped into the walkers and left to their own devices.

Edited February 3, 2019 by BitterApple

[iwasish]

10 hours ago, vast wasteland said:

Kim Kardashian Shares Adorable Photo Of The New Jenneration: Stormi And Chicago

Why do they have twin walkers?  Even when we had two or more kids in the extended family using walkers, we at least had  them in different colors if not styles/brands. 

 

If you click on that link, the picture of Kim that comes up shows a big gap in the “overlining” of her upper lip. 

Edited February 4, 2019 by iwasish

[Frost]

Why the Hell does everything have to be misspelled? Jenneration?  I can't take it anymore!

[GaT]

29 minutes ago, iwasish said:

Why do they have twin walkers?  Even when we had two or more kids in the extended family using walkers, we at least had  them in different colors if not styles/brands. 

They have a tendency to buy for every kid when one sisters buys something, so probably one sister bought the walkers. True probably has one also. 

[Cocoa Puff]

1 hour ago, GaT said:

They have a tendency to buy for every kid when one sisters buys something, so probably one sister bought the walkers. True probably has one also. 

It's not some overpriced baby walker that costs several hundred dollars, so I'm gonna lean towards they were gifted by the company and that's why Kim shared the picture. 

Edited February 4, 2019 by carolinagirl81

[GaT]

20 minutes ago, carolinagirl81 said:

It's not some overpriced baby walker that costs several hundred dollars, so I'm gonna lean towards they were gifted by the company and that's why Kim shared the picture. 

Also a possibility.

[iwasish]

50 minutes ago, GaT said:

Also a possibility.

More like a probability. Anything for a dollar.

Khloe must be raking it in with the kiddie turbans. 

Edited February 4, 2019 by iwasish

[RHJunkie]

If I were a parent, I would never post public pictures of my children because I would spend a good chunk of my day telling people to fuck the hell right off with their parenting judgment and policing. The article noted that the dangers associated with the walkers were primarily related to kids in walkers falling down the stairs. That isn't the walker's fault. I certainly don't mind parents today using the information available today (that wasn't available decades ago) to make parenting decisions that give them peace of mind but I'm not here for parents who act like their parental choices are the only right ones to make and that others are endangering their children. How the hell did these people survive with parents who didn't even have this kind of information available to them?

Also, I find it shitty (and not surprising) that Kim chose a picture to 'honour' Stormi's birthday that includes Chicago and where Chicago is the one who is the focal point of the picture because she's actually looking at the camera while Stormi is doing her own thing. Kim always celebrates other people by posting pictures where she's involved and looking better than anyone else in the picture so it's not surprising that she would choose a picture that would likely garner more attention for Chicago than Stormi.

Edited February 4, 2019 by RHJunkie

[GaT]

16 minutes ago, RHJunkie said:

If I were a parent, I would never post public pictures of my children

I'm not a parent either, but I really don't understand people who post pictures of their kids online, at least ones that show their face & are identifiable. I get that as a parent you make a lot of decisions for your kids that they don't get a say in, but I do not understand deciding that your kids do not get to have privacy & anonymity, & will have to spend their entire lives shown on the internet, nevermind all the perverts that will be looking at them. It just boggles my mind that any parent would choose to do this to their child.

[iwasish]

I’m confused as to why they’re wishing Happy Birthday and sending hugs and kisses to a one year old via InstaGram. She doesn’t even have a cell phone to access it. 

[DangerousMinds]

40 minutes ago, iwasish said:

I’m confused as to why they’re wishing Happy Birthday and sending hugs and kisses to a one year old via InstaGram. She doesn’t even have a cell phone to access it. 

Thank you! It's just nonsensical.

[GaT]

2 hours ago, iwasish said:

I’m confused as to why they’re wishing Happy Birthday and sending hugs and kisses to a one year old via InstaGram. She doesn’t even have a cell phone to access it. 

Because if it doesn't happen on IG, it didn't happen.

[WhosThatGirl]

On 1/28/2019 at 3:26 PM, GaT said:

A lot of times they cost the celebrity nothing. The company may give them as a gift to someone who is hot at the moment. Then of course there are people with no taste who just buy things because they are expensive. Like this terrifying Birkin Kanye had painted as a gift for Kim. She walked around with it one day, & we never saw it again. Or when Kanye again decided to waste a ton of money when he bought another Birkin for Kim, but this time had North decorate it, also only seen for one day.

This. Anytime a celeb posts something to their Instagram and tags the designer or the company, I side eye  even if it’s a celeb I like because chances are they got it for free and all they have to do is be like “look at my new purse!” Or whatever it is. I mean occasionally it’s an ad and a celebrity will put that it’s an ad but more often than than not people are just posting the item and the designer. And I get it. It’s free stuff. The designer gets publicly but yeah I will click on the designer and then my eyes will bulge out of my head at the items cost and I’ll wonder if said celebrity just dropped that much money on said item and the answer is probably not. Also yeah this wasn’t a Kardashian’s point but all the same.

[vast wasteland]

Kardashian Sisters Seeking Approval For $10.6M Arbitration Award

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Three Kardashian sisters are asking a judge to confirm a $10.6 million award they say an arbitration panel granted them in a lawsuit brought by a hedge fund that alleged they committed fraud and breach of contract regarding the funding of a line of beauty products.

The panel directed Hillair to pay the women nearly $7.4 million and another $3.2 million in interest.

A petition for approval of the award is scheduled to be heard Feb. 26 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Fruin.

“After having heard all the evidence, the arbitration panel saw through Hillair’s ruse,” the Kardashian petition states. “This petition arises out of a series of very bad bets that Hillair made, which led to very serious damages to the Kardashians.”

Hillair filed the lawsuit in March 2016, alleging the fund put up millions of dollars in July 2014 to help Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian keep the beauty line afloat after former distributor Boldface encountered legal and financial troubles.

Hillair’s suit stated the fund agreed to pay for the ongoing distribution costs of the line and that the Kardashians said they would continue to be the face of the line and actively promote it.

Hillair maintained the sisters had a duty to market and support the line.

Lawyers for the Kardashians maintained all of Hillair’s allegations were subject to arbitration based on written contracts between the parties.

They Kardashian lawyers also maintained Hillair failed to abide by the parties’ agreements, not the Kardashians

[vast wasteland]

‘They can sell anything’: how the Kardashians changed fashion

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But what makes this Kardashian aesthetic so appealing to young women? “The look is always the same,” Church-Gibson observes. “It always follows the same shape. Everything is tight; the heels are very high.” High-fashion designs are put through a Kardashian filter, such as when Kim wore a Celine dress in March 2017. “The Celine aesthetic is very loose, and worn with sneakers, but she paired it with very high heels,” Church-Gibson explains, describing the Kardashian aesthetic as “sexy, rather than fashionable”.

Church-Gibson has watched the Kardashian influence spread like a virus through British wardrobes with dismay. “What worries me is that everybody looks so similar. The look they’re selling is total, from the top of the head to the sole of the foot … it’s a very homogenous way of looking.” She mentions the style blog Man Repeller, which began as a celebration of fashion trends commonly thought to repel men: acid-washed harem pants, shoulder pads and dungarees. The Kardashian aesthetic is the anti-Man Repeller look; a hyper-feminised, high-glamour look that seems calculated to entice the male gaze. Acolytes of the Kardashian style “do look very sexy, but they are interchangeable”, says Church-Gibson. “In a way, it’s the death of individuality.”

And while the Kardashians are sometimes celebrated for popularising a new, more curvaceous “slim-thick” body type, it’s a shape that is arguably as inaccessible as the very slim ideal that preceded it. “They’ve simply helped swap one unattainable beauty standard for another,” says Yomi Adegoke, a freelance journalist and the co-author of Slay In Your Lane, who has written about the Kardashian influence in beauty. “The ideal has been replaced with a want for ethnically ambiguous women with curves, but only in certain places. It’s more like a Mr Potato Head approach to beauty, picking the ‘best bits’ from various different races and leaving women of colour, specifically black women, still at the bottom rung when they only have ‘parts’ that are deemed worthy and beautiful.”

[RHJunkie]

6 hours ago, GaT said:

I'm not a parent either, but I really don't understand people who post pictures of their kids online, at least ones that show their face & are identifiable. I get that as a parent you make a lot of decisions for your kids that they don't get a say in, but I do not understand deciding that your kids do not get to have privacy & anonymity, & will have to spend their entire lives shown on the internet, nevermind all the perverts that will be looking at them. It just boggles my mind that any parent would choose to do this to their child.

Not to mention all of the embarrassing things parents post about their children in order to be the next viral sensation. At least back in the day those videos and pictures were in a picture album or some old tape but now people put it on the internet without a second thought and nothing dies on the internet. It always gets me when people who go viral say 'we put the video up on youtube to share with friends and family who live across the country'. Bitch, you ain't got email? You don't know how to text a video to someone? You just thought to put a video of your child up on a public youtube account where there are professionals that just scour the internet for the next big thing...and you had no idea how people came across it? Oh please, lol.

[GaT]

1 hour ago, vast wasteland said:

Kardashian Sisters Seeking Approval For $10.6M Arbitration Award

Apparently a company marketed a line called "Kardashian Beauty" & used Kourtney, Khloe, & Kim to promote it, but they weren't involved in the deal at all.

https://www.tmz.com/2016/07/13/kardashian-beauty-makeup-legal-battle/

[Cocoa Puff]

9 hours ago, vast wasteland said:

It’s more like a Mr Potato Head approach to beauty, picking the ‘best bits’ from various different races and leaving women of colour, specifically black women, still at the bottom rung when they only have ‘parts’ that are deemed worthy and beautiful.”

THIS PART!!! Yes to this entire comment, this is exactly what they are doing and have done.

[GaT]

Kanye West, Kim Kardashian Back Out Of $14 Million Condo Deal

After they went to all the trouble to stage those photos on their balcony.

[vast wasteland]

Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and More Attend amfAR Gala as New York Fashion Week Offically Kicks Off

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Calling all fashion queens! New York Fashion Week has officially kicked off now that the acclaimed amfAR Gala has arrived.

So get ready to sashay in your brightest and boldest outfits this week (because we're sure you'll get some major inspo) as designers show off their latest collections.

With that said, all of the who's who in fashion, beauty and entertainment flocked to the gala, including Kim Kardashian, who is presenting tonight, and Kourtney Kardashian, as well as supermodels Heidi Klum, Lily Aldridge, Alessandra Ambrosio and Karolina Kurkova, who is also presenting.