Kim Kardashian: When Kanye First Made Over My Closet, I Cried
By now, the story of Kanye West completely redoing Kim Kardashian’s closet is the stuff fairy tales are made of (what, you haven’t heard that classic “When Prince Charming Threw Away All of the Princess’s Shoes and Told Her to Start Again?”), but years after the first purge — with her husband’s influence on her style more obvious than ever — Kardashian admits on Live With Kelly & Michael that she wasn’t initially as willing of a makeover recipient as West might have expected.
“They put everything that he thought wasn’t ‘cool enough’ in a pile, and I walked in and it was like a pile to the ceiling of shoes,” she says. “All my amazing shoes that I loved, and I started crying. I was like, ‘I can’t get rid of this stuff, your stylist has no idea what she’s talking about.’ So I put it all in another room, and I was like, ‘I’ll trust your opinion, but I’m not getting rid of my stuff. Let me see what you’re really talking about.’”
Of course, West had some tricks up his (designer) sleeve. “Then I walk into my room, and there’s an entire room filled with all new clothes,” she continues. “All the stuff he wanted to fill back up my closet with. It was, like, really cool new designer stuff — I hadn’t even heard of some of these designers before. And it really helped me fall in love with fashion. I eventually did get rid of most of that stuff, and my style has evolved and changed. But I couldn’t see it at that time.”
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These days, of course, the duo is more likely to go out in matching plunging tops or any one of a number of lookalike ensembles, and Kardashian’s formerly Kolorful Kloset has been streamlined to contain mostly neutrals. But that doesn’t mean that West isn’t still offering his advice on everything from the name of her coffee table book (Selfish, for the uninitiated) to the outfit she wore that morning.
“I had on this white Balmain pantsuit [this morning]. He was like, No, no, no, I think you just be a little bit more simple today — and totally changed my outfit right before I was walking out,” she says. She does draw the line somewhere, however: “Then he was like, Oh, I love your hair down! And I was like, No, no, no. Ponytail. You don’t get that much — you get one thing, outfit or glam!”
Does your significant other weigh in on your attire?
–Alex Apatoff
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