Don’t hate me, but I think this might be my favorite ensemble from Kim Kardashian’s thrice-daily costume change/pap stroll/street-fashion-catwalk week in Paris. I’m partial to a smart leather ensemble, it just has to be done the right way, the leather has to be tailored properly and when done properly, a black leather ensemble can look great. This is one of those times. I really like that skirt. AND the blouse (minus the shoulder pads). Also, Kim’s body looks really good here, which is rarity because usually she can’t dress her figure for s—t. You can really see that she’s lost all of the baby weight and then some – she’s slimmer now than she was before she got knocked up. Anyway, this is what she wore when she went out to lunch with Kanye in Paris, then she joined Kourtney and Jonathan Cheban for a trip to the Eiffel Tower.
One of the constant themes over the past few years is Kim’s obsession with all things Duchess Kate/Kate Middleton. In Kim’s mind, they are connected. In Kim’s mind, they are the same except for nationality. While there are parallels to be drawn (same age, pregnant at the same time, both have ridiculous, social climbing mothers), Kim always takes it too far. And so now someone has started the rumor that Kim is going to wear Sarah Burton for McQueen, just like Kate.
Kim Kardashian has built her empire on reality television, but does that mean she’ll marry in the same designer as real-life royal Kate Middleton? Kardashian, 33, has enlisted Sarah Burton, the creative director behind Alexander McQueen, to design one of her wedding looks, Radar Online reports.
“She has called on Sarah Burton to design one of her options. Kim wants the low-cut V-neck look that Kate [Middleton] had, but much lower, and she wants her gown to be tight-fitting enough to show off her svelte figure,” a source tells the website.
Burton — who designed Kate’s satin and lace long-sleeved gown for her 2011 wedding to Prince William — has created a dress with quite the price tag, but it’s not the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star’s only option.
“Her gown is estimated to cost $2 million. And no one will see the gown until she walks down the aisle. There are three gowns that were made just for her and she hasn’t decided yet between them,” the source adds.
Considering the sourcing on this is extremely sketchy, I would say this is probably only a remote possibility. I mean, Kim is obsessed with all things Kate, and she would probably love to wear a big McQueen gown, but I think Kanye has lots of input and it’s going to be a designer based in Paris. Lanvin, Givenchy, something like that. But if Kim does go for McQueen… total Single White Duchess.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I want to thank you for showing just the front and not the back of her in that dress.
Ditto! Khloe’s was enough butt for one day.
I will second that. Very considerate.
I say she’s going for couch couture 2.0, only with lace cutouts so it’ll be klassy.
Well, sure, since she shares Kate’s long, slender body type, they should really just swap clothes like total BFFs.
That Jonathan Cheban hanger-on seems like a total loser. Whenever I’ve seen him on the show (just a few times, I don’t see the show very often), he seems like a leftover high school mean-girl who thinks he’s in with the popular kids now. He’s just mean and negative and catty.
You forgot to mention his hair. He has the worst hair. Does he remind you of Scott Dick, I mean Disick?
I don’t get him at all… like what does he do? I guess he comes from money, but man, he is whack.
Yes, he comes from money. He does NOTHING. He was on Millionaire Matchmaker and came across as a total Loser, and IMO he is also a complete loser in the looks department.
Kim looks pretty in this outfit…can’t believe I said that.
lmao, i watch the show (DON’T JUDGE ME!) but mostly in those marathon sessions when nothing else is on tv…and there’s an episode where all three sisters are making fun of him for “living up kim’s you-know-where”–it was a rare amount of honesty where are three of them basically agreed that he does nothing except be a hanger-on to kim’s entourage.
ALSO, Cheban is literally the worst. and the description of him as a ” a leftover high school mean-girl who thinks he’s in with the popular kids now” couldn’t be more spot-on.
He had a reality show for about two seconds once. He supposedly runs a pr firm?
He recently co-hosted an episode of E News. He was horrible and I hope they never ask him to co-host again. They asked him what he had going on right now and what’s next for him and all he said was “umm well I’m going out to dinner with Kim tonight and then I’m flying off to Paris for Kim’s wedding”. He didn’t say “oh I have this project that I’m working on…” or something. His job is to kiss Kim’s butt and defend her on twitter.
Ugh, that Cheban Muppet! So odd. Just one more muppet face to add this silicone and foam crew. (No offense to The Muppets) We shall see what the Trick Pony trots out on the big day. I keep hoping it will be on of Ricardo’s creations. That would awesome.
Someone on here once called him a “human dingleberry”, and I thought it was absolutely perfect. Because that’s what he is, a piece of sh*t that does nothing but cling to equally worthless people.
He’s a terrible person, so I don’t feel too bad about being mean.
I saw a picture of him a few days ago with his bodyguard. Why does he need a bodyguard?
She does look good here. She will probably wear all 3 dresses during the night. I still can’t see her ever doing a sleeve.
She wore had three dresses at her last wedding and changed. I’m surprised she doesn’t have more. I’m waiting for the pics from the themed rehearsal dinner. BTW the outfit is still too small for her. One size up would have fit better.
Yeah, good if your standard is “tasteless Beverly Hills nouveau riche famewhore.” She immediately cheapens everything she wears, no matter how expensive.
That face is looking more alien like everyday. She should keep her shades on 24/7.
I can’t wait for all this wedding to be done with. Her friend needs a new wig, that hair is everything but bourgeoisie.
Haha! When I read his shirt I rolled my eyes. Your comment made me chuckle. 🙂 His hair really is crap.
Black (and spanx) makes everyone look “skinny”.
another sausage casing.
I actually think Kim has really good style.
That outfit doesn’t look good on her at all. It’s practically suffocating her. If the skirt was just a bit looser on top it might look okay. She kills everything her with her frozen face.
Comparing Carole Middleton to Kris Jenner? Really? You’re reaching, Kaiser.
Ha, that was what I thought.
it’s quite one thing to be ambitious for your daughter to be the Queen of England, it’s quite another to hope your daughter scores big cash on her sex tape.
Not the same
Well put LOLLL. Must be a whole cow covering that @ss of doom.
How odd to dress up like this, as if you have something important to do, and stride purposefully through the street, while all you are doing is siteseeing.
Seriously!! She dresses up so much with absolutely no purpose. She has nowhere to be. She does nothing other than using up oxygen and space. Why get all fancy for that?? Why sit through hours of hair and makeup for the 15 second walk from your car to wherever she is going to take up space until she gets back in her car to go to another place to take up space??
For attention and so her followers can tell her how beautiful she is. I don’t think this girl can go more than 10 minutes without having someone tell her she’s pretty.
Her big toes are totally hanging out the sides of her sandals. Not a fan of the outfit, but that’s probably because I’m not a big fan of the girl wearing it.
Ooh, nasty feet!
That is because she refuses to buy the size of shoe that she actually needs. She needs a wide shoe (and to possibly go up at least a half size) for her gorilla feet. If they made spanx for feet, she’d be wearing them.
Haha! Spanx for feet! I love that!!
She looks good.
/I’m trying to be nicer this Friday
3 gowns for her 3rd wedding! Seems about right.
Who was her first marriage to? I totally missed that.
She was 19. She went off to get married in Vegas without her family knowing. The dude, Damon Thomas (a record producer) was 29 at the time and had kids. Her father didn’t speak to her for months when he found out. Damon has told the media a lot of juicy stuff about Kim. It was believed they both cheated on each other. He also said he paid for her lipo and that she was obsessed with becoming famous.
A deeper v-neck and tighter to show off her figure? So she’s going to take Kate’s dress and trash it up.
Oh, please, make it real. I definitely need to see this!
Wow, Kim makes Paris seem cheap and crass.
Given thatthese talentless hacks, with ZERO class and egos the size of football fields, are in Paris for what will most probably be an incredibly vulgar display of wealth, it’s hilarious that Cheban is wearing a tshirt that says ‘Bourgeoisie’. Cannot make this sh!t up.
As much as I love France and bear her citizens no ill will, I am very much hoping an asteroid falls out of the sky and lands directly on Versailles tomorrow.
No need to drop it on Versailles. Just drop on Kimye and the rest of the Kardashians as they leave their hotel.
Money = Taste, right?
right. 😉
For someone who is getting married tomorrow (?), she doesn’t look very happy… or is it Botox’s fault?
Wait until she files for divorce, she’ll say the same thing she did last time. “I was pressured into getting married and couldn’t bail out…I wasn’t happy but went through with it anyways”. She loves getting married, but she hates being married.
“…and I wanted to have what’s-her-face’s father in her life! OMG! I am a single mother now!!”
Kim and North Take Miami 2030…two single ladies looking for love.
I just realized I will be camping this weekend, so will miss EVERYTHING 😀
excellent planning
I like the outfit but it might also be because I havn’t seen it from the back yet..
She’s been looking better lately but if her other two marriages should have taught her anything, it’s that you should put more work into your marriage than into your wedding. Being on your third marriage at 33 should be a cause for concern but I guess that after having being raised by PMK and being surrounded by yes-people, there’s no one to tell her that.
I heard Kanye is the one who put all the work into this wedding. It’s been reported that Kim herself has been left in the dark regarding her own wedding and what exactly is going down.
Nobody’s face looks like that in nature. Is she trying to think of ways to be bigger punch line? Wearing a similar dress as the dutchess? WOW! Just stop! It’s not even funny anymore.
Ugh, these stories are such bs. There is a difference between a designer “dressing” someone and Kim or anyone else with obscene amounts of money, buying a designer dress to wear. Sarah Burton at McQueen is not going to work with and/or dress Kim for her wedding or any major event. She damages the brand. The only designers that will cop to working with her are on the fringe or in bed (literally and figuratively) with Kanye. Otherwise, she buys off the rack because she has a gazillion dollars to throw around. and has to have everything tailored to the hilt to fit her.
I agree with you. Any fool with enough money could buy any
designer outfit. But I doubt she has had any reputable
designer custom make something for her except maybe Tisci
(as you said). No one wants the stench of tacky, immoral
famewhore on their books.
She better grow about 5 or 6 inches overnight if she wants to pull off that dress.
I think there is no chance she’ll wear a dress like Kate’s. Not unless she tramps it up by removing half the fabric (and in her favourite size – 3 sizes too small).
A dress like that would be way too demure for Kim!
not sure if the folks at CB will cover Kim’s last “girl’s night out!” as though she’s a blushing bride who needed a bachelorette party and it was weird to me but that being said…I AM IN LOVE with this outfit. It’s Balmain and sparkly and the detailing is beautifully done. The only sad thing is Kim’s wearing it and bringing it to the world but it’s beautiful, it fits her well and I can’t get enough of this dress!
Pictures:
http://instagram.com/p/oVdNY3uS-c/
http://instagram.com/p/oVcBjruS9g/
anyone agree?! I hope i’m not alone on this one lol
I don’t know…I’m not a fan of the dress. I know that “baby blue” color is hot right now, but maybe I don’t like the dress because Kim is wearing it lol. I do have to say she does look pretty in that photo.
I’m with you on that dress. I think it’s gorgeous and she’s actually totally pulling it off.
Yeah, I love the dress too. She looks good.
I COVET this dress ! Battling breast cancer and had a dream last night that I was wearing this dress, and the Kardashians were at my home and I was calling them all cabs! Surreal.
She looks like a prostitute to me
oh geez.
A prostitute couldn’t afford that outfit.
The high priced ones could.
Yeppers.
My wedding is on the 7th, and I’m starting to worry that Kimye will get married on the same day as me…
They are getting married tomorrow.
Ummm…..Kim Kardashian and KanYe West copy someone else? Never. All they do is sample and then call it their own. And in other news I read the Bey is demanding a pay day if Jay insists she attend this fiasco! Everything is business with these four and nothing more. I swear. There is no love involved here except for their selves.
I hope they copy absolutely everything William and Kate did because it’ll be a mockery of both couples. I will be Kim’s biggest fan forever and staunchly defend her on gossip blogs if she comes through for me.
She’s giving me major hair envy in those pictures.
She should just have the woman who makes the wedding dresses on My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding make one (or three) for her. Kim K. is about as tacky and classless as the girls on that show.
Eh, I don’t believe it about the gown. If she wanted to copy Duchess Kate, she could have done it for her second wedding – the timing would have allowed it.
Stop. Nowhere, under any circumstances should she be even mentioned in the same sentence as Kate Middleton. It’s just so wrong.
Truth is, she isn’t on the same level as Kate. I know many people think they are the same but they are not. When has Kate Middleton ever sunk so low by doing a sex tape for fame? Was she hanging around the british equvilent of Paris Hilton or any other realty tv D lister like Kim did? No she didn’t.
And Kims baby is the child of a woman who did a sex tape to get famous and a rap star who has a huge ego and is mostly famous for dissing other celebs and attacking people. Sorry there is no comparassion with that baby with Prince George either. Also, is Kim even that famous in Europe? I doubt it. She isn’t internationally known like Kate is either.
She seems to want to be “in” with Kate so bad. I don’t even think Vicky B. has made much leeway with Kate, so Kim can hang it up.
Sarah Burton would NEVER.
Not only do I think she would politely decline designing a dress for he THIRD wedding of one of the U.S.’s greatest laughing stocks, but the DOC still frequently works with Burton and her wedding gown was a one of a kind hand made/sewn couture lace creation. Sarah Burton would not risk her reputation, name and relationship with the British royals to cater to the train wreck that is referred to as ‘Kimye’ (UGH), much less risk it all just to have one of her impeccable designs be an ‘option’ to Kim. Please.
Never.Gonna.Happen.
Wow, I actually really like the way she looks in these pics
I don’t like what she stands for, but I suddenly need a LEATHER SHIRT in my life, I would look much more badass in it 😀