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September 15, 2008 10:00 am
“Taking it easy” is anathema to Kimora Lee Simmons, who, after a decade at the helm of Baby Phat, sees little reason to slow her sartorial roll. “It’s really crazy, but I just go around saying, ‘It’s never fashion week!’ and then everything doesn’t blow up in your face,” Simmons relayed at Friday night’s Baby Phat presentation at Roseland Ballroom. “I have a great team of people behind me. And we’re ladies, so we manage to do it with a smile on our faces.” The show, which drew the likes of André Leon Talley, Serena Williams, and Simmons’ squeeze Djimon Hounsou, had a Studio 54-meets-seventies-era-Cher vibe—had Cher ventured with Sonny to North Africa. “It’s kind of a disco version of the Sahara Desert. There’s the neutral color palette and the utilitarian pockets. Some things feel a little safari. And then it’s disco in the asymmetrical necklines, the silk jersey and the wide leg and the high waist.” Taking a post-show bow in one of her own lime-green jumpsuits, Simmons was accompanied, as always, by daughters Ming and Aoki Lee, who, like their entrepreneurial mother, have their own ideas about getting things done. “They weigh in on everything,” Simmons laughed. “They’re really opinionated. And I can tell they got it from me.”
tags: Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmons
