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The New Kimora Lee Simmons
A lot has happened in Kimora Lee Simmons' world in the past five years. In August 2010 she departed from Kellwood Co.'s Phat Fashions, where she was president and creative director. She married and split from actor Djimon Hounsou, with whom she has a five-year-old son, Kenzo. In 2011, she became president and creative director of JustFab, the membership-based e-commerce site which was recently given a $1 billion valuation. She married Tim Leissner, a banker at Goldman Sachs, this past February. The couple is expecting their first child in April. Today, Simmons is launching KLS Kimora Lee Simmons, her collection of clean, tailored and taut designer ready-to-wear that reflects a new phase of her life.
"It's different for me. It's, like, grown up," says Simmons, referring to her new collection and to the campaign images on the table in her office in the Flatiron District in Manhattan. David Sims shot the photos of her modeling the collection in August. She looks stunning in an unexpected way: pared down, hair undone, no makeup and unretouched, she says. "When people look at this they say, 'Oh, this is Kimora when she was 12 or 13 at Chanel,'" she says,...