Kim Kardashian wore red to the Armenian genocide memorial: tacky or fine?
On Friday, Kim Kardashian, Khloe and Kanye West traveled to Yerevan to visit the genocide memorial. They’ve been in Armenia for days now, meeting distant relations, sightseeing and now paying their respect to one of the most significant genocides in European history. I feel a certain way about memorials, that it’s all about showing respect and giving the proper respect to the event being memorialized. Like, I would have been slightly offended if Khloe and Kim had worn jeans to the memorial, but I’m not sure these outfits were “respectful.” It’s like Duchess Kate wearing hot pink to the 9/11 memorial – why not just be safe and wear black or grey, something somber? Kim in particular seems very “tarted up” for a trip to a genocide memorial.
Meanwhile, Kim is still shilling her kids’ clothing line. She already gave an interview to Vogue (go here to read) and now she’s talking to Elle. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights (I made some minor edits to the text because Kim says “you know” about a million times in this piece).
North loves shoes & purple: “She dresses really simple, and she’s not really a fussy dresser except for every morning and says “shoes,” and has to put on a pair of shoes. Like she had on the most wild outfit today, I sent a picture to my best friend. She was wearing purple pajamas—she says “purple” all the time—purple like, octopus backpack. She just discovered backpacks so she love to put them on. She had a big pink poodle [backpack] that her friend sent her, and she loves sandals, so she was wearing these really, like, wild sandals. So I took a picture and I sent it to my best friend and I made a joke, like, “Who says she only wears black?” you know?
North loves her Frozen suitcase: “She’s always loved to carry—every time I have my big luggage and we’re going on vacation, she’ll try to take my big luggage and carry it herself, so we got the Frozen suitcase so she has to carry it everywhere. It took us about 30 minutes longer to get through the airport because she had to carry her suitcase herself. She didn’t want to be picked up, she didn’t want anything. She did ride on it, but other than that, she has to do it. She’s very independent.
North loves makeup: “She loves makeup. Every night we play, after her bath, in bed, and you know my purse is always kind of by my nightstand, so she always says “purse!” So she grabs my purse, and that means she wants my makeup bag, so I give her my makeup bag and it’s empty. And if I just turn around for one second, she has my lipstick like all over her face. So I have to give her her own little makeup bag. She’s obsessed with makeup and watching me get ready and getting ready herself. She just loves the process, she could not be more ultimately girly-girl.”
Kim wanted alone-time with Kanye: “Yeah, I mean I think I really made that a priority. I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she’s really independent and likes it that way. If I try to put her in bed with us, she kind of likes to be in her own room. And that has allowed us to have our time together.”
Workouts: “I made it a priority that I knew as soon as the doctor said I was able to work out, I was going to focus and commit myself and really work out, and feel good about myself. So I always gave myself time. So I think for all new moms, I can totally see how you can get wrapped up in making your child 100% your time. But if you could just take 5% or 10% for yourself a day, it won’t just make the difference in your confidence, but also your sanity. I mean there are times where sometimes I couldn’t even wash my hair if I didn’t have help. I couldn’t even figure it out. I think once you just set boundaries and how you’re going to parent—everyone parents differently so I hate to be that person to tell them how anyone should parent, I think whatever works for you works.
I’m going to give Kim some credit here, but it honestly just occurred to me for the first time as I was reading this piece: Kim is not a judgy mom. She’s not throwing shade at anyone else’s parenting style or parenting choices. Some will say, “Well, she doesn’t have room to judge.” That’s true of a lot of women and they still judge, but Kim makes an effort to live and let live. She’s very anti-Goop in that way and I like her for it. (Although you could probably make the argument that Kim is too self-absorbed to pay attention to anyone else’s parenting choices.)
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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