The Inside Story of Kim Kardashian Billion-Dollar Shapewear Bet

Kim Kardashian West has long dreamed of her own body-positive, shade-inclusive line of shapewear and underwear. But now the outcry over the erstwhile Kimono’s name could derail many months of planning. How she and a team of blue-chip investors are trying to salvage their claim to a piece of the $83 billion industry.

Marka Kim Kardashian West: SKIMS

It was around noon on Friday, June 28, when Kim Kardashian West realized it was time to cave. After three days of being globally thrashed, she would have to change the name of her latest venture, a shapewear and lingerie line, a concept she had been thinking about for the past decade—longer than she had been married to Kanye West, longer than her four kids had been alive, longer than she had been arguably the most famous woman in the world other than Queen Elizabeth II. The name Kimono had to go.

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