Kimora hates Graydon!

[chantal]

I'm not sure if it was that article or some other article in a prominent fashion magazine that I read...but I do know this -- I knew practically nothing of Kimora and after reading the quotes from her in that article, I decided she was the poster woman for vain, selfish, materialistic, and pointless celebrity. With all of her money and fame, she can't buy any class. She was talking about how rich she was, how many pairs of designer shoes she had, how she had the biggest collection of LV luggage in the world. It was pathetic and disgusting -- I thought "Does this woman think of anything else but acquiring materialistic things so that she can show off how much money she has"?

Then I heard the quotes about her saying, "I will beat a b*tch's ***" if someone tried to talk to her husband. This woman is just trash, and no matter how rich she is she will never be able to buy herself elegance, grace and class. I am glad that VF ran those letters because anyone with any sense would think the same thing after reading the article -- and her own quotes in the article. She made her own bed, now she needs to lie in it.

 

[Oria]

I read the article, and found it interesting. I think she's perhaps upset over being a little too honest- but if she's upset over hate mail now, then she truly isn't the "diva" she says she is.

Who cares, like it's been said before not everyone will like you. I was interested in what she would share, but I have no real opinions BUT I don't think she's "trashy" because she cursed, who cares so much freako classism that works in the entire world, that to me in and of itself is weak. All these silly little social climbers lol. She wants to be trashy or tacky let her be, but for goodness sake don't complain when the folks who read VF write about how tacky and classless you are- what did she expect? And it's all freaky to me regardless- people classifying others based on what they think is or isn't class Humans how we can be so utterly silly and the futility of it all. Ok I'm done off my soapbox lol.

 

[chantal]

Perhaps I, nor anyone else, should attempt to define what class means, but I doubt that saying to the press, "I will beat a b*tch's ***" is classy by anyone's standards!

 

[chantal]

Here is one of the articles on Kimora anyone hasn't read it yet! It is interesting.

http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/050307roco01?print=true

 

[morgan38]

^thanks for posting. ugh, I don't like that woman.

 

[ChinaLove]

There's no such thing as a selfless donation. Everyone who donates, regardless of how much the sum is, does so for some selfish reason. I don't see how Kimora is different from anyone else. That being said... I do find her public persona to be a little bit much at times.

 

[morgan38]

^I disagree. There are plenty of selfless donations (although you don't see them much in Hollywood today). All you have to do is not talk about how much you donated it. Kimora can't shut up about it.

 

[Oria]

Perhaps I, nor anyone else, should attempt to define what class means, but I doubt that saying to the press, "I will beat a b*tch's ***" is classy by anyone's standards!

Perhaps, but thank goodness I don't live by "anyone's standards", but my own.

Class is subjective, and it's usually defined by those in society who swear they have some lol. Again I say utter nonesense--to me. It's all subjective, and I for one wasn't offended by anything she said. Just found the article interesting.

In the end I don't care what this woman does lol, or how she's viewed to the world--the article was interesting, she's upset over hate mail--she needs to get over it, And that's really my final thought.

 

[modelmama]

WOW!

To put it lightly ....Kimora is a piece of work.

After reading that article, she is no different then......well, any of us sounding off on how we feel about something, whether it be positive or negative. Have you heard some of the comments other famous / wealthy persons have made.

Still, not an excuse for tackyness. The main difference- she is just abrasive about it, and with zero decorum.

I think its because of her so called "status" of being famous AND wealthy she thinks her words are gospel. Pure BS.

Its not what you say, its how you say it.

I also think she is acting out some sort of child hood revenge. As her mom pointed out, Kimora was having a hard time with her peers and suffered from low self esteem -thats when she got her into modeling. Now she thinks she's hot tamaly.


And saying all that she said in front of an interviewer-----Urgh! Poor Russell,

 

[chantal]

Here's a link to another interesting article on Kimora --

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/shopping/fashion/features/9306/index.html

 

[ultramarine]

Maybe she shud do another charity on her name, "b*tch-slap me for $1000"

 

[cocomonkey4]

75,000 is not that amazing. I hate it how taboids even have to make a point to state that she make a donation. For a woman who lives in a house with a movie theater and gold toilets and drop 100,000 on a pair of shoes, 75000 is like small change.

 

[Alpha Femme]

Maybe she shud do another charity on her name, "b*tch-slap me for $1000"

Kimora's world

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]At 13 she was a St Louis mall rat, at 14 she was the new face of Chanel. Now, she's pocketed $20m from the sale of just one of her clothing lines and is one half of New York's hottest power couple. Phoebe Eaton charts the shameless, breathless, glorious rise of Kimora Lee Simmons[/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Sunday October 10, 2004
The Observer

[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The call came in from somewhere out on the rain-slicked New Jersey Turnpike. Could they please hold the curtain at tonight's benefit performance of The Owl and the Pussycat at Manhattan's City Center? Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleeeeease?


Kimora Lee Simmons, the dynamo director of Baby Phat fashions, was in the back seat of her extra-long platinum Bentley, running half an hour late. Did it mean anything to anyone that she was the chairwoman, yes, the chairwoman of the event? 'There are rules for these things. The show will start on time,' somebody had to tell her. Ralph and Ricky Lauren were in the house. So were Diane von Furstenberg, Oscar de la Renta, and Zac Posen, the 23-year-old who had crafted Kimora's gown, with the loopy swish that looked like a conch.

Kimora's husband, Russell Simmons, arrived at the theatre in his white Ford Excursion. The affable co-founder of Def Jam Records, Russell, who had recently sold his Phat Fashions clothing company for $140m, joined the ladies with fur wraps inside as they awaited US Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley's turn onstage with the Martha Graham dance troupe. As the performance got under way, Kimora sneaked in through a side entrance and she and Russell sat down, holding hands. After the show, there was a dinner dance at the Plaza, where Russell and Kimora were seated with Anna Wintour. But Kimora was distracted. There was something for sale in the silent auction outside, and she wanted to go home with it. 'Unprecedented fantasy opportunity to have Mr Blahnik name a shoe in your honor', the sign said.





Kimora slipped out to the vestibule to keep an eye on the prize. 'Did no one hear me on the microphone? I said, "No one go mess with the Manolo Blahniks! I'm the chairwoman!"' she joked. Kimora got on a mobile phone with a Minneapolis doctor whose wife was there fishing for a birthday present. 'You're making me look bad,' Kimora said to him in her jingling, cash-money voice. 'Tell your wife I will give you a pair of mine. Let's just collaborate.' The doctor caved in, and somebody chided Kimora for her furtive price-fixing. But there was other competition. Kimora found herself toe-to-toe with Suzanne Levine, a podiatrist celebrated for tending to the ailments of the high-high-heeled. 'I don't know why Manolo Blahnik would want to name a shoe after a podiatrist, but whatever,' someone in the crowd whispered. 'It's my livelihood,' Levine kept saying.

Kimora Lee was a more obvious Cinderella for the slipper. Born out of wedlock, this woman-child from the Midwest had willed herself on to the runways of Europe as a model and was now the high-living other half of the city's most fascinating power couple.

A man shouted that he was the lawyer for Dr Suzanne Levine, so nobody should try anything funny. 'I want you to make sure no one does this to me, Jack,' said Kimora to her lawyer and manager, Jack McCue. But the hands on her diamond-flecked watch touched 12, and Russell dragged Kimora back to her car. The shoe was hers, or so she thought. But then Levine bid a final $20,000 on a piece of folded paper, and after a protracted cellular exchange with McCue from the car, Kimora decided she had enough Manolos at home to play with.

The gossip columnists sunk their canines into the incident. The scarlet Kabbala string on Kimora's wrist, the one 'blessed by the matriarch Rachel - she's long dead, like in a tomb somewhere', had again failed to protect her.

'You gotta get tough,' Russell told his wife. She had gone to such trouble - for him! - to measure up as an urban fashion icon, a woman who, in her own words, could 'inspire young women to aspire'. But to the New York tabloids, Kimora is an irresistible pin cushion.

'Why is everyone worrying about what she spends?' says Russell. 'They should be worried about what Roberto Cavalli spends, too. How many cars does Tommy Hilfiger have, by the way?'

'If you are successful, people want to see it,' says Vogue's Talley. 'They want to share in the dream.' Especially people of struggle, as Russell Simmons tactfully calls them. It's one reason rap lyrics sometimes read like shopping lists.

However, the auction-room spat has been surpassed on the Kimora scandal meter. In July she was pulled over while driving her Mercedes for 'for minor vehicle violations' and charged with eluding police, careless driving and possession of marijuana under 50g. All of which she denied at an August court appearance.

'There was not a bag of drugs in the car,' says her lawyer, Stacey Richman. 'Evidently some item that has some marijuana residue in it was in the car. I don't believe the item belonged to her.' Husband Russell sees the episode as a commercial opportunity. 'Have you seen the mug shot?' he asked. 'It's a nice T-shirt at the end of the day.'

In the mugshot Kimora is wearing her Kabala wrist string. Yet again it failed to bring her luck.

Long ago, Kimora Lee realised that if she couldn't be the most popular girl in school, it might be fun to be the girl everybody talks about. 'Be happy if people are talking about you,' her father used to say. Only now she's not so sure. The self-styled World's Biggest Collector of Louis Vuitton is trying not to brag these days, but there's just so much to show off. 'I am a fly b*tch!' the 29-year-old says, sounding slightly exasperated.

'I have this vision of Kimora being the greatest brand in the world,' says Russell, 46. 'There's no woman better. Nobody should put on a Franck Muller diamond-platinum watch before Kimora. You have some girl who's a rapper who came from the block? It ain't the same as Kimora.'

the rest of the article......
[/font]http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1323243,00.html

 

[Alejandro]

Obviously donating money for a good cause will put you out there as a good generous person, but I feel like im biased about this issue, because she's what she's being putting out there for years, a selfish, self absorbed woman... so I dunno, probably simmons is right, she's a good woman, but I guess the image she's been putting out there shows otherwise...

 

[splatooey]

i used to really hate her but i just read that article someone linked to (thanks for that!) and now i really dont like her.

but its not hate

 

[Meeka]

I also think she is acting out some sort of child hood revenge. As her mom pointed out, Kimora was having a hard time with her peers and suffered from low self esteem -thats when she got her into modeling. Now she thinks she's hot tamaly.


And saying all that she said in front of an interviewer-----Urgh! Poor Russell,

That's what i think. i remember when she and russel were showing their home on cribs. she made sure to shout out all the people that use to call her a "****** giraffe" and asked "how ya like me now". Plus I think she's goes a little too out of her way to seem "ghetto" or hood or whatever...she comes off like a wannabe.

sad thing is russel actually thinks she classy(and by my definition, she's a looong way off.)

 

[rhiannonmars]

It's nice that she gives into stereotypes about homosexuals.

"Naturally fashionable?"

My thoughts exactly! That is the LAST think I would have thought of when donating to a school for gays and lesbians.

Isn't the obvious thing to say is that sometimes these poor kids get ostrisized or ridiculed, so you wants to do something for these people who are just as human too? Nooooo, she talks about how great their fashion sence is?! I guess she forgot to mention they also do fabulous floral design for her mansion too!!