THE ENDURING IMPACT OF BABY PHAT
ON KIMORA LEE SIMMONS' 45TH BIRTHDAY, CR HONORS THE PIONEER OF FEMALE STREETWEARON KIMORA LEE SIMMONS' 45TH BIRTHDAY, CR HONORS THE PIONEER OF FEMALE STREETWEARFew brands are as culturally and aesthetically synonymous with a time period as Baby Phat is to the early 2000s. No department store, paparazzi photo, or middle school cafeteria could escape the all-ruling sparkle of Baby Phat’s bedazzled feline logo, whether it was peeking out from beneath a fur-lined puffer or gleaming from the zipper of a bubblegum pink tracksuit. Under model, former Chanel muse, and designer Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat’s rise to pop cultural consciousness was meteoric. With unapologetic femininity and an unwavering manicured finger on the pulse of emerging hip hop, Simmons disrupted the streetwear genre and redefined what it meant to be a woman within it. On Simmons’ 45th birthday, CR gives the multihyphenate designer her (long overdue) credit as a trailblazer of women’s streetwear.
