“I got to a point where I would ask him for advice for everything — down to what I wear. Even now I’m having panic attacks like, what do I wear?”
Kim Kardashian’s style has obviously been influenced by her now-ex-husband Kanye West for quite some time.
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Throughout their marriage, Kim has freely discussed how Kanye, who is also a famous fashion designer, would go to considerable lengths to handpick her dresses.
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In fact, Kanye started styling Kim even before their marriage. Kanye reportedly rebuilt Kim’s entire closet within months of their 2012 relationship after informing her she had “the worst style.”
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And for the following nine years, Kanye went out of his way to make sure Kim’s attire were to his liking, even going all the way to Paris for just 24 hours to style her after seeing paparazzi images of her wearing things he didn’t approve of.
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Yet after Kim filed for divorce from Kanye in February 2021, things changed. Though he continued to dress her on special occasions, Kim finally had to start dressing herself without Ye’s approval.
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Kim frankly recounts how she struggled to put her own looks together without Kanye’s guidance in the latest episode of her family’s reality show The Kardashians, which aired on Hulu last night.
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The episode was shot in early November, approximately ten months after Kim filed for divorce, according to her own words.
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Kim told her sister Kourtney Kardashian that she had become so dependent on Kanye’s viewpoint that she had started seeking him for guidance on “everything.”
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“I got to a point where I would ask him for advice for everything — down to what I wear,” she claimed.
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“Even now I’m having panic attacks like, what do I wear?” she continued.
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Kim continued to say that while Kanye assisted her with her SNL look in October, he didn’t dress her for the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator Awards on November 2, which she had difficulties preparing for.
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“In New York — I will say — he styled me for SNL,” Kim admitted. “Then for the Wall Street Journal magazine, I won the innovator award for Skims. And I was like, ‘How do I wear something that hasn’t been prevetted first? Like, it was like psychologically [hard].”
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Kim wore a brown leather dress from her Skims x Fendi collection with matching gloves and snakeskin-print heels to the prestigious event, which took place at MOMA. Kim acknowledged to Kourtney that she was “very apprehensive” during the process of choosing her own dress.
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However, despite the fact that Kim proudly flaunted her look the day after the award ceremony, she has now claimed that Kanye — who clearly didn’t like — phoned her personally with some harsh words after viewing what she put together.
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“Oh, and then he called me afterwards. He told me my career’s over. And then he showed me a picture of Marge Simpson wearing something similar,” she told Kourtney.
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Later in the episode, when she struggled to put together a few ensembles for several future occasions, Kim revealed more about her battle to shift away from Kanye’s impact.
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“I think that fashion has always been something that I’ve always been really into, but I’ve never been the creative,” she confessed.
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“I definitely see what I like but I’ve never really been the visionary. Kanye would come in and be like, ‘You should do your hair like this. You should do your makeup like this.’ That’s his love language, it’s clothes,” she said.
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“And so, I always just trusted in him,” Kim continued. “But, it’s not just about clothes. That was like the last thing we had really in common.”
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Kim went on to say that she’s now attempting to figure out what her unique sense of style is. “I was always ‘The Kardashians’ with my sisters, and then I was ‘Kimye.’ Like, who is Kim K? That is the jump. How do I get there without Kanye?” she said.
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“When I filed for divorce, it’s been like 10 months now. And I am finally just stepping out [and] being like, I can do this,” she continued.
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Kim appears to have grown in confidence and her style has taken a noticeable turn since the episode was taped in November.
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Kim has recently returned to her more classic glam appearances, choosing floor-length dresses over leather trench coats, shades, and thigh-high boots, after months of dressing head to toe in all-black Balenciaga ensembles.
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Kim wore a silver Thierry Mugler gown at the premiere of The Kardashians last month, breaking away from the looks she’d recently been known for.
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She wore a glittering gown with diamond studs and a solitaire ring to the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, where she made her red carpet debut with boyfriend Pete Davidson.
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Kim also channeled some old-school Hollywood elegance when she wore Marilyn Monroe’s famed “Happy Birthday President” outfit on the iconic Met Gala carpet earlier this month.
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