Kim Kardashian West is including a brand new title to her prolonged résumé.
The truth TV star-turned-entrepreneur is the recipient of the Trend Icon Award on the 2021 Individuals’s Selection Awards. The mogul is being honored for her “eager trend sense, unprecedented entrepreneurial success and single-handedly remodeling the style business by means of her progressive designs and trend-setting type over the previous decade,” in accordance with an announcement from NBCUniversal.
“For almost twenty years, Kim Kardashian West’s type evolution has disrupted and influenced developments on a worldwide stage and cemented herself as a power to be reckoned with inside the trend business,” stated Jen Neal, government vice chairman of leisure stay occasions, specials and E! Information at NBCUniversal. “For being a cultural inspiration, trailblazer and a lot extra, we will’t wait to honor Kim with this yr’s ‘Individuals’s Trend Icon’ award.”
Kardashian West has lengthy been a mode star to observe, commonly sporting statement-making items from design homes like Mugler, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Balmain, Versace and lots of others. Her most up-to-date standout trend moments embrace the all-black, hooded Balenciaga outfit she wore to the 2021 Met Gala and the pink Balenciaga bodysuit she wore whereas internet hosting “Saturday Evening Stay” in October.
The star first got here to prominence by means of her household’s E! actuality TV present, “Retaining Up With the Kardashians,” which ran for 20 seasons and just lately ended this June.
She translated her recognition into a number of profitable companies within the trend and wonder areas, first launching a make-up line, KKW Magnificence, in 2017 to capitalize on her well-liked contour make-up look. She later expanded the road into all make-up classes and launched a complementary perfume model, referred to as KKW Perfume.
This July, Kardashian West introduced that she was quickly shuttering KKW Magnificence in an effort to rebrand. Many speculated that the rebrand was because of her impending divorce from husband Kanye West and her plans to drop the “W” from the model’s title, nevertheless, sources near the model confirmed to WWD that this was not the case and that West was concerned within the rebrand.
In 2019, Kardashian West set out on her subsequent entrepreneurial enterprise with the launch of shapewear model Skims. She initially revealed the model underneath the title Kimono, however later modified it after she confronted backlash for cultural appropriation. Skims just lately launched into its first main collaboration with Fendi on a line of loungewear and innerwear.
Kardashian West is the fourth recipient of the Trend Icon award on the Individuals’s Selection Awards. She follows Tracee Ellis Ross, Gwen Stefani and Victoria Beckham. The star will obtain the award through the televised ceremony, which is able to air on Dec. 7 at 9 p.m. on NBC and E!
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