Kimora Lee Simmons announced that she is no longer nursing her 14 year-old  Baby Phat and Phat Fashions. According to E!Online, Kimora will be dissolving her relationship as of September 1st to focus on other business ventures such as her clothing lines, KLS, Fabulosity and Kouture by Kimora Collection for Macys.
“After 14 years of conceiving and nurturing Baby Phat, it’s time for me to move on and further expand my other businesses and create a new phenomenon,” Kimora says. “I adore all those who have faithfully been with me since the beginning.” “I’m forever dedicated to my family, fans and customers. My inspiration has always come from the fabulous women who have been with me through the years as we’ve grown from young party girls to power players! “We’re ready for our next journey together and we’re taking a whole new generation of incredible young women with us. Girl power unite!”Kimora went to Twitter to let fans know that there will be no Baby Phat fashion show during Fashion week this year, something she blames on execs. “I will not b there. And corporate has decided not 2 do one!”—>RT@starchild36: @OfficialKimora “Can I come to the Baby Phat show for fashion week?”
The star of ‘Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane’ also tweeted that her daughters Ming Lee and Aoki Lee –who currently both model for the line – will also be ending relations with Baby Phat. Something doesn’t seem right. What did Russell do now?..What do you all think about this? -Another post by Courtney L.
I agree with Courtney L., something about this story is fishy! I think that 1 of the 2 things probably happened 1) Russell did something wrong or 2) she bumped heads with one of the members of Baby Phat’s Board of Directors.
I DONT THINK RUSSELL DID ANYTHING, BECAUSE AS MANY OF YOU KNOW HE GAVE SHE ALREADY OWNED BABY PHAT HERSELF AND RUSSELL GAVE HER OVER PHAT FARM ABOUT A YEAR OR TWO AGO. SHE WAS IN COMPLETE CONTROL.
IT’S A GOOD THING BABYPHANT IS COMING TO A END CAUSE IT WAS CHEAP ANYWAY….
It was WAYYYYYYY over priced anyway, and really didn’t look no different from anything you can by at New york & Co.- shoot I’ve seen cuter more reasoably priced Clothes at JCPennet. She never got any of my money anyway.
OOPS I meant to say JC Penny.
We shall see. Something isn’t right!
Russell doesn’t own any part of Phat Fashions. He gave that all to her awhile ago. They both sold their shares to Kellwood for 140 mil in 2004. But they kept Kimora on to oversee everything. Nothing is “fishy” her contract is up and she had to leave.
Kellwood is bankrupt. They may not have a lot of money to put into Baby Phat. Some of the stuff was quality but some was not. I am going to miss Baby Phat. It is definitely not going to survive without Kimora. This may be the beginning of the end.
I just read that Kellwood avoid bankruptcy.
Did she really think he would continue to support her?? Let’s be real about it.
I follow her on twitter…she said her AND russell are both out! he tweeted that they sold the company like 7 years ago…&& that that cooperation is taking over
Kimora Lee is a Rich Bitch i loved baby phat but let’s keep it real that stuff was getting more and more outrages and looked like much of nothing !!! I like Kimora but when you have a bad attituide and think your above everything it has a way of knocking you down and making you come down to earth. I’d love to see what’s next and the perfume line smell’s really good and the bottles are cute.