Kim Kardashian and How Fashion is Identity
In the fifth episode of the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian admits to struggling with her fashion in her life post-Kanye West. She voices insecurity about finding her own style after years of Kanye's styling. In this essay, I want to explore this part of Kim, using her as a case study to discuss how fashion communicates our identity to the social worlds around us. While Kim does often control avenues of power, she is also subjected to it. After her image being owned by Kanye West for years, she is suddenly free to not only find her fashion, but to figure out who she is.
Kim Kardashian and Marilyn Monroe’s Dress
Seeing how the reaction to what Kim wore that day unfold, I wanted to throw my hat in the ring – appropriately for this blog being too late – in order to look at this fashion moment from a different perspective: that of mythology and storytelling.