Properly deserved! With a billion-dollar style model to her identify and stellar avenue fashion, it’s no shock that Kim Kardashian was introduced with the Trend Icon Award on the Folks’s Alternative Awards on Tuesday, December 7. Whereas she’s “all the time memorable” in her personal proper, the 41-year-old Skims founder, who wore Balenciaga for the night, took the chance to thank ex Kanye West for her success within the fashion area. 

“I’m truthfully so humbled to be right here. I began off as a closet organizer and a stylist, so the truth that I’m successful a Trend Icon Award is a pinch me second,” she stated upon accepting the award from Tracee Ellis Ross. “I’m humbled each single day that designers are prepared to work with me. There was a time after they weren’t. Thanks Zac Posen who dressed me and took me to my first CFDA Awards and so many wonderful designers, like Ricardo [Tisci] and Olivier [Rousteing] that basically believed in me. Properly, [they] most likely [were] talked into it by getting a name from Kanye.”

She continued: “So thanks to Kanye even for actually introducing me to the style world. I fell in love with style. It is a dream that I get to get up and put on these wonderful garments and take a look at new issues, take a danger. I’m so humbled.” 

It was introduced that Kardashian would obtain the award final week, with NBC and E! recognizing the star for her “eager style sense” and “unprecedented entrepreneurial success.” 

“For almost 20 years, Kim Kardashian West’s fashion evolution has disrupted and influenced developments on a world stage and cemented herself as a drive to be reckoned with skinny the style business,” Jen Neal, the Govt Vice President for NBCUniversal Leisure Tv and Streaming stated in a press launch shared with Us Weekly. “For being a cultural inspiration, trailblazer and a lot extra, we will’t wait to honor Kim with this yr’s Folks’s Trend Icon award.” 

This isn’t the primary time Kardashian has been honored for her affect within the style area. Earlier this yr, the Maintaining Up With the Kardashians alum was acknowledged on the WSJ. Journal 2021 Innovator Awards. 

For the occasion, the star opted to put on a bit from her Skims x Fendi drop. The gathering, which was introduced simply days previous to the WSJ. Journal occasion, was the model’s first break into the posh area. 

Whereas teaming up with different style homes isn’t “a part of the plan,” Kardashian does have a handful of issues brewing in her empire. Not solely does she plan to interrupt into extra “yoga-ish” clothes with Skims, however she’s additionally within the strategy of overhauling her magnificence model, KKW Magnificence. 

“I need to actually launch a completely new magnificence model,” she stated in an interview with WSJ. Journal. “I discovered a lot that I’m excited [to put out] a model that has all the brand new info that I do know. I really feel like its’ going to be my child, I’ll have my magnificence model and Skims.” 

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