Last week, we talked about GQ’s fascinating article about how lower-tier celebrities get paid to party at nightclubs. In the piece, a source mentioned that Kim Kardashian used to make a lot of money doing those kinds of club appearances, but these days, Kim has jacked up her appearance fee to the point where very few clubs have the money or desire to hire her for a night. Well, guess who came out for Hakkasan’s third anniversary party in Las Vegas on Friday? Yep. I guess Hakkasan was willing to spend the big money to get Kim at their event. It probably was a good investment. After all, I’m writing about the photos, right?
This was one of Kim’s first big public appearances since giving birth to Saint West in December. I mean, she’s been everywhere and in our faces, but she hasn’t walked on many red carpets in the past few months. Hilariously, I immediately ID’d Kim’s dress as Balmain. I’m not sure why Kim and Kanye are so in love with Balmain, since she usually looks like she’s wearing ugly drapes or upholstery. This dress is utterly tragic. I also don’t really understand her hair here – is she trying to do a mussy bedhead? Weird.
According to People, Kim partied at Hakkasan but she didn’t drink. I guess she worked a “no drinking” clause into her appearance contract. While Kim’s never been much of a drinker, she isn’t drinking these days because she’s on a diet and trying to lose the last 20 pounds. She told People:
“I gained a lot of weight and I have a lot to lose. I definitely feel good to a place where I feel comfortable again and things are starting to fit. This time I think weight has come off quicker than last time because I kind of learned how to eat better. Last time I worked out a little bit harder. This time I’m eating differently. I think the mix of the two will really help out this last 20 lbs. fly off. I’m praying.”
The thing is, I think she looks fine. I mean, her body looks fine. This is how she looked before her second pregnancy. I think she’s hellbent on getting back down to a super-skinny size, like where she was 10 years ago. And I don’t even buy that she’s just focusing on diet and exercise – I’ve become increasingly convinced that she has regular lipo sessions.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
She looks sad and exhausted. Sad.
She looks dirty and messy.
It’s tragic.Her whole look.Hair,make-up everything.She does look exhausted.I guess if you are married to Kanye you would be too.
She looks nothing like herself when she first gained fame. It’s crazy!!
Also, it’s like another commentor here said before- surgery doesn’t make you look younger, just different. Kim almost looks older than her age. But she looks smooth, I’ll give her that.
She does, doesn’t she? I think somewhere inside most women would love to be the same size we were in our 20s, even the smallest of us. But reality is that our bodies change with age and I think that should be honored and appreciated. We allow our personalities to change as we mature and our bodies should be given the same freedom. Taking care of yourself and wanting to be your best is wonderful but trying to achieve some unrealistic teenage standard of beauty isn’t fair.
Kim K has built her entire “empire” on her looks and her body. Beauty is fleeting and plastic surgery can only prolong the inevitable for so long. I really do not like her family or anything they stand for but I find Kim sadder and more pitiful all the time.
This! I’m back to my pre baby weight, and I seem to be two sizes ‘larger’. Some of this is because your hips spread when you grow humans, some of it is because weight distributes differently after 35, and I think some of it is because sizes are NEVER THE SAME. I’m currently wearing a size 12, even though I was wearing an 8 at the same weight six years ago. I wish I had money just so I could commission clothes that look great and have no size label in them.
Hot mess.
Those were the first words out of my mouth. She looks awful and orange.
I guess she doesn’t own a hairbrush.
She looks “okay” head on (frontal face). I put okay in quotes because I’m not sure how we’re supposed to evaluate. She doesn’t ever look like her former self because of all the surgery and we all age so even if she’s not going to give herself a break on that reality …I will. Is it purely based on weight and dress size? I’m happy to say I can’t tell the difference between now or then. The dusters are gone so she must be feeling good about herself.
The big ruh-roh for me is whenever I catch a side or profile view. It’s really odd. Like both her and her surgeons want perfection (not one wrinkle, pimple or sign of human life) from the front, so on the red carpet front view – yea smooth! But all the nipping and tucking have left all other angles of her face distorted and disturbing. I’m not going to call it ugly, it’s just wrong and alien.
What’s her end game here? I envision her in a few years and can’t help singing that “Dem Bones” song. Will the knee bone be connected to the …nose?
Almost everything Kim wears is tragic.
I’m sure it looks lovely on the runway, but there are just some clothes that need to stay on the runway because they don’t look good on most women.
Much of her wardrobe is like this.
This is her problem – in her mind she is a willowy runway model – but this is a hard look to pull off for most women – especially with the white panels that emphasize her hips, butt and stomach
And this perception problem of hers has been mentioned often, she doesn’t dress correctly for her body type. It’s not a slam against her body, it’s that she doesn’t work with what she’s got. There are times when she works with her body, not against it, and looks fine. Admittedly, these occasions are very rare, but they do happen.
There are more pics of her at this event where it shows her stomach ( with the real bulge) – a read side view. The one above blocks it and just shows her photoshopped butt.
I have no problem with anyone having a stomach or thighs ( mine are quite muscular and hard to fit as well ) but I am so sick of this constant over photoshopping, certain angles, filters etc to show this family is perfect is utterly ridiculous.
The only one who looks for real with a real fit body is Courtney.
Ugh will this family go AWAY? I have to stop clicking these articles and commenting as its only keep them in the media.
My phone elongates some photos vertically, which in this case shows how the dress was designed to look–totally different and the design makes more sense. By her face, she knows it is unflattering.
@ Hadley
Where are those pictures at? I wanna see 😀
DM had a shot of a model wearing this thing on the runway. It looked almost as horrifying as it does on Kim. I also will not criticise her weight or shape. She’s fine as she is. It’s how she dresses herself that makes her look so ghastly. My daughter has a couple of friends who are much larger than Kim. They wear quirky casual clothes or those rockabilly-type (?) dresses for going out, with well-groomed hair and great accessories, and always look fantastic. Why can’t Kim get it?
NOTHING Olivier Rousteing designs is in good taste. It’s all Ringling Bros. gear and sl^t-wear and outdated, passe yech.
@robynsing And yet, all the wannabes want to wear Balmain. Tragic.
In contrast…
http://fashionista.com/2016/03/balmain-fall-2016
Actually looks pretty good on the catwalk.
She’s just too short for some of the fashion she wears and then there’s that oversized butt.
I can’t see how this dress would look good on anyone. It’s just overworked and terrible. I mean what designer in their right mind thought, ‘You know what area needs to be highlighted? The uterus! Yeah! Let’s give her vag and hips it’s own cinema screen!’
But on a short curvy body like hers… I have no idea what she’s thinking.
I can see what she was trying to go for with the hair. But that dress… I don’t even know how anyone thought it was a good idea on a clothes hanger, much less with that arse crammed into it.
TRAGIC!!!!!!
So tragic!
Removing those butt implants should take care of that last 20 lbs!
It’s fat. Can you remove fat that has been removed from your mid section and placed in your butt? That would mean it would be removed twice. Seems like things would get really lumpy (she is looking lumpy down there (see ski photos). But she does have that laser lipo done and I think it’s a smoother. eek? It’s all a slippery slope eh?
She normally wears a lot of makeup but this straight up looks like a kabuki mask. Does she ever let her skin breathe? And that dress is hideous. Girl, go home, put on some sweatpants, and just watch TV.
Did you notice that her forehead is a different colour than the rest of her face, or is it my computer? It looks very off.
It isn’t your computer. Make-up application gone wrong.
And, her profile is just sad, her mouth looks odd. The shadow of her face is mocking her ‘regular’ face. She just looks weird.
Not your computer. It’s the instagram-selfie crowd’s love of that makeup buzzword *contouring*. Every part of your face looks a different colour – deliberately so. If you’re looking at them in person they look like they’ve got stage makeup on, almost.
A lot of pro makeup artists apparently think it’s too much for the everyday. But whatever, as long as it gets people buying more crap they do not need and keeps them watching and makes you think that it’s worth subscribing to their app to get AMAZING and oh-so-pro makeup tips like *contouring*.
None of the Kardashians are “outdoorsy” letting anything “breathe” out. I watched an episode where the tall ex husband was so frustrated by the indoorsyness at the beach, no less. He threw KK in the water and nearly melted her. The hair, the make up…thankfully she lost some 30k diamond earrings and witch squealed. Fresh air, water, anything natural discombobulates the perpetually lacquered ones.
In the context of what Kim usually wears this isn’t in the top ten worst ever, it’s not good, though the white midriff/butt panel looks horrible. But for her, not so bad.
I love Balmain but its like Erdem, not everyone can wear them well. It looks terrible on her but mind you she’s just like Duchess Drab, she’s tragic in mostly everything she wears.
Is it the awful makeup or has she been at her face again? It looks more alien than usual, and her nose looks like it belongs on a three year old.
The dress ….is a mess.
Probably both.
I think she had another nose job after she had the second kid. What does she have against noses?
The make-up is hideous. Wth? I thought at least she always got that right.
Her face does look different. It’s bugging the hell out of me.
I think she got a new chin..
Waiting for the day she goes full Voldermort with her nose and tries to claim it’s down to contouring. Us peasants will simply have to continue wondering how bronzer surgically shaves bone off your face.
That is next level hideous.
Is the white girdle part of the dress?
That is especially flattering, isn’t it? I always think that putting white around your largest area makes it look petit.
Just the faintest scent of sarcasm in the spring air.
I was truly impressed with the white panel. I saw it and immediately thought, ‘Oh my god, why did she highlight her ass with that material?’ Then I saw the side view and realised it didn’t go the whole way around. To my utter horror… somehow that made it worse. I don’t know how, but it did. It wasn’t just an unfattering entire section of the dress, it was just a partial section whose singular purpose was to highlight the lumpy bits of a woman who gave birth in December. The insanity is just… it’s just.
I don’t know why but I think I’ll make pigs in the blanket today.
Oh that’s mean, but you made me laugh out loud.
Thanks for a good laugh!
It looks really warm. Like it’s causing her to sweat a lot.
Michael Jackson cosplay.
It is a weird dress, but its the first thing I’ve seen her wear in ages that actually makes her look proportionate. I don’t know if that is progress or not.
the fact that she thinks she’s pulling off that dress is hilarious. But her face and makeup is just sad. Like, good god just stop messing with your face already. And just make-up your mind about what colour you wanna be. Her forehead is orange but the rest of her face is a different colour. It’s just confusing.
I just feel sad every time I look at her face. 1-2 nose jobs too many for sure. She has ruined the balance of her face. That snub nose looks awful on her. If only she could put some nose back on!
Omg I watched the snapchat video she made for rob and I was SHOCKED at her nose!!!! Up close and in motion it was way, wway too small! It actually made me gasp- I didn’t realize how much shed widdled it down. Why???
Yes, I just watched that earlier! Her face looks crazy. I hope for her sake it was the makeup. Otherwise, she totally ruined her nose! Looks so crazy skinny
Seems like an odd choice to wear to a club. Kim also now seems like an odd choice of a celeb for a club to spend big bucks on. Wouldn’t it make more sense to try and get one of her younger sisters, who are probably more in the same age group as the club goers?
Are they 21 though?
They are kartrashians since when did age stop satens home girl and her koven? Lol
Balmain is not her friend and she should avoid those ornate, heavy, designs like the plague. She has self-image problems big-time and Kanye’s advice does not help her one bit.
She reminds me of a chandelier for some reason
Of course the dress is hideous-but what is going on with her hair? Usually it looks perfect-but the back is really wonky.
Only thing missing is the lampshade with fringe. One day Kim you will dress nicely for your build. It can be done.
Anyone remember back in the day when she used to dress so well and look like an actual human?
Not really.
Actually yes, someone on here commented about ‘2008 Kim’ so had to Google it as I wasn’t aware of her existence back then (Ah! Simpler times!) and I have to say, as thirsty and desperate as she was, she looked good. She was beautiful and wore a lot of skinny jeans and blazers that just looked great on her. She looks good dressed down. There was a shot of her shortly after having North in a tshirt and jeans and she looked really good. These high fashion attempts are just not her area. It’s been a long time since she looked good.
This is an unfortunate mess. She needs to go back to her roots and style herself; keep Kanye away from her closets.
The dress is hideous but I zoomed in on her face and I think her hair and makeup are good. Granted it is so heavy it looks like a mask. I’m especially glad to see her hair loosened up a little. So sick of seeing her hair pulled back so severely.
I don’t like that dress. The big white patches look like they forgot to finish beading. Besides that, it’s a terrible choice for her.
My take on the dress is that she wanted to wear it, but it wouldn’t fit over her giant butt and that was the only fabric they had on hand.
Nice take lmao
Yikes ! That dress is horrible. She has such bad fashion sense.
Lampshade in a Victorian brothel. dreadful. Her face belongs on one of those neko games.
The whole thing is an EPIC FAIL – makeup, hair, dress, and orange skin. If you look close at her face the skin looks greasy with clogged pores. Yuck!
According to the Sunday Parade magazine, she made $85 million last year!
Hilarious all that money and not an ounce of style…..which can’t be bought, you’ve either got it or you haven’t. So incredibly desperate is hers…& the others.
She is a blithering idiot when it comes to fashion or style. A desert wasteland. She dresses for the body she wants (Kendall) instead of the body she has. She should be in structured, draped dresses like they wore in the 50s: Charles James, Ceil Chapman to name a few.
Think Sofia Vergara. People may criticize her for wearing the same thing all the time, but with her body type she is limited. Not only does she look like she a member of the human race, the clothes flatter her curves.
She wasn’t super-skinny 10 years ago. She was slim.
She just doesn’t wear clothes well…
Doubly tragic
Wait…misake. Tragic is too underdeveloped of a word for this apparition. Let me get out my thesaurus.
Okay, here’s just the first few;
appalling /awful/ harmful/ cataclysmic
deadly /wretched /destructive/ dire /disastrous
Much better.
Probably why she’s always posing naked.
@deedee boom! Super comment applauding loudly!
Those cheek implants don’t do her any favors. She looked fine without them. The dress, not a good look and it just makes her ass look fat 😉
Literally her butt starts at her knees. She looks deformed
I think she will end up looking similar to kris or jocelyn wildstein when she is older- she has def had more work done to her face… Tragic bc she is so young, this look is awful. When will they go away??? They all look terrible now except kourtney and kendall still look pretty normal
Plz soooonnnn can they disappear
Oh she definitely will. She’s really bad now, and she hasn’t started aging, or barely. All the surgeries she’s had, can you imagine the work she’ll get done? 40 face-lifts by 60.
Im surprised that she didnt have an “accident” while skiing, and “convalescence” with “broken legs”, to cover up leg lengthening surgery. I mean, go all the way Kim!
She needs to also get her fun house mirrors and eyesight checked.
She also needs to fire her stylists. These clothes that are wearing her, are not flattering. She can and has worn outfits that knocked the socks off her haters..(me).
I think her “stylist” is Kanye. Since she has been with him, many of Kim’s( Kanye’s) fashion choices have been really awful. The sad thing is she could tell Kanye to back off, but won’t .
I agree, she’s not dieting, she’s doing liposuction intead. She needs a new stylist, her own eyes checked and new mirrors in the house. Not a good look.
As a fellow petite woman, I can say that busy patterns and fabrics are generally NOT the look that’s most flattering on us. We just look lost and/or stumpy.
That said…hahahahhaaaaaaa!! Her clothes crack me up these days!!!! 😂😂😂
Tragic
She’ll always dress poorly. Where has her nose gone? It’s disappearing before our eyes.
Tragic.
She is getting some serious Michael Jackson nose. Girl, STOP. You were actually beautiful to begin with and looked fine until like 6 years ago when you started going crazy with the surgery.
Also, do you think she regrets all of those fat transfers now?
PS: That dress is not meant for her body type. It’s hideous to begin with, but she is too short and curvy for it. It is too busy and draws to much attention to the areas she probably wishes we would ignore. Does it look cheap to anyone else?
Kim is an obsessed woman who only focuses on herself. When she makes an entrance she expects all heads 5 be focused on her. Now she has 20lbs. To loose, she has a challenge rani ‘m sure will go over well. Obsession was what I felt Kim thrived for. Now thatnshe’-s part of thr Rich and Famous, plus married to Kanye, she refuses to be snubbed at . She wants to be treated by royalty . How she handled her daughter the other day was sheer neglect . The best part of it she didn’-t even respond to North. Oh but when she tripped the whole world had to know an out it, and to prove it happened. A big bucket of ice with her feet wrapped in it. The biggest picture of a foot in a bucket ofnice. It’skto,laughable .
I will never understand what the fascination with this family is.
Kim represents everything vulgar I have seen in all the continents I have been on. She is too fat to be strutting around in designer clothes..least of all embellished like Balmain.They should get out while they are still at the top.
“She is too fat to be strutting around in designer clothes”
lol, please shut the hell up forever.
I can’t believe Balmain would even make something like that.
Kim never routinely drank at her club appearances. No special contract necessary. She said years ago that she didn’t drink at the clubs at such appearances, just ate dinner there, and everybody was fine with it. She said she hardly ever drinks alcohol, maybe on a very special occasion. I always admired her for that, she was proof positive that the lushes are wrong when they claim they just have to drink because it’s expected in their business.
Eh its not the worst I’ve seen. People go overboard because it feels good to mean girl Kim Kardashian.
Even after all of the weight loss surgery she still looks like a pumpkin.
She’s fine, it’s just that her ass of lies throw everything out of proportion.
Tragic.
This dress would look 10,000 times better if the white labeling were black. So unflattering, but that’s kind of her thing I guess.
If she would stop insisting on shoving herself into clothes that do not fit she would look just fine at the weight she is.
One day someone other than Oliver is going to run Balmain and I hope they rid the brand of the Kardashian Stink he’s put upon it.
So unflattering… but honestly I think that dress would look horrible on almost everyone, it’s just plain ugly, it looks like a cheap costume.
This woman’s face is starting to look like a cat’s!