by Sean Smith
USC (University of Southern California) 12, 13, 14, 102, 142, 143, 167
Valentino 217
Vanity Fair 42, 69, 108–9, 135, 221, 222, 224, 227–8, 244, 253, 276
Variety 252, 276
Vera Wang 164, 172
Vivid Entertainment 120, 121–2, 124–7, 128, 130, 134, 270
Vogue 209, 216–17, 274
Walters, Barbara 69
Warner Bros x, 49, 111
Waterman, Todd 29–30, 32–3, 47–8
Weldon, L. D. 38, 39
Wentz, Pete 147
West Brands LLC 190
West, Donda 180–2, 183, 184–6, 187, 190–1, 194
West, Kayne xii, 4, 5–6, 8, 26, 95, 151–2, 179–91, 192–204, 242, 270, 272
ambition 185–6
birth and background 180–1
Caitlyn Jenner and 225–6, 227, 230
car accident 188–9, 190
childhood 180–7
daughter and 212, 213–15
fashion and 182–3, 184–5, 193, 194, 200, 205, 206, 209, 216
first meets Kim 179, 192
Kim’s pregnancy, announces 203–4
Late Registration 192–3
love affair with Kim blossoms 192–203
marriage proposal to Kim 215–16, 274
mother and 180–2, 183, 184–6, 187, 190–1, 194
move to LA 212–13
MTV Video Music Awards, 2009 197–8
music career 186–91, 200, 211, 212, 214, 245
The College Dropout 189–90, 192
wedding 217–18, 275
Yeezus 211, 214
West, North 5, 8, 210–13, 231, 242, 249, 256, 274, 276
West, Ray 180–1, 182
White House Correspondents’ Dinner 273
Wilhelmina Models 237
William, Prince 5, 218
Williams, Hype 152, 153, 272
Williams, Serena 106, 166, 173
Willwerth, James 69, 70
Wilson, Robert 15
Winfrey, Oprah 64, 130, 172, 203
Wintour, Anna 209
Y–3 fashion show, New York 197
Zanotti, Giuseppe 173, 200, 201
Picture Section
The young Kim Kardashian grew up happily in the rich and privileged world of Beverly Hills. Here she is sharing carefree moments with close friend Nikki Lund. (Mirrorpix)
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Her family remained close after her mother remarried. From left to right: younger sister Khloé, older sister Kourtney, stepfather Bruce Jenner, mother Kris, Robert Jr and Kim. (Ron Galella Ltd/WireImage)
Bruce already had four children of his own, so there were now eight youngsters and two adults to fit into family portraits. Kim is far right. (Maureen Donaldson/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Salad days … Newly married in 1991, Kris and Bruce were keen to promote keeping fit and eating healthily. (Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)
An Easter-egg hunt in Mexico, 1994. It was the last vacation with ‘Uncle O. J.’ Simpson and his wife Nicole (pictured together in the back row). She was murdered two months later. Kim is front right. (Splash News/Corbis)
Kim’s father, Robert Kardashian, became famous defending O. J. at his murder trial. At O. J.’s house after the ‘not guilty’ verdict, they still had plenty to talk about. (Lawrence Schiller/Polaris Communications/Getty Images)
Now a celebrity, Robert arrives for the Grammy Awards with his then fiancée, Denice Halicki. (Fred Brown/AFP/Getty Images)
Kim’s first husband, Damon Thomas (pictured in shades with business partner Harvey Mason, Jr), was a cool record producer, but their Vegas marriage didn’t prove to be happy ever after. (John Shearer/WireImage)
Kim made that sex tape with hip-hop artist Ray J in 2003, and they were still together when they went to a fashion launch in March 2006. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Multi-talented TV host Nick Cannon was good fun for a couple of months. They strike a pose at a party for Kanye West at a New York restaurant in September 2006. (Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
American football star Reggie Bush looked like he might be husband number two when they watched a basketball game in New Orleans in January 2010 … But the couple split after dating for two and a half years. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Paris Hilton was an old school friend whom Kim went to work for when she was a celebrity stylist. They both loved shopping and made sure their handbags were large enough. (PhotoNews International Inc./Getty Images)
Three of these celebrities took part in notorious sex tapes – Kim, her boyfriend at the time, Ray J, and Paris Hilton. Tennis great Serena Williams, a close friend of Kim’s, is the odd one out. (Chris Polk/FilmMagic for Bragman Nyman Cafarelli)
The sex tape that launched a multimillion-dollar fortune. ‘Kim Kardashian Superstar’ was a premature description back in 2007, but not today. (Splash News)
Kim poses with her little sisters, Kylie (left) and Kendall Jenner, at a launch in October 2007 for Keeping Up with the Kardashians at the Chapter 8 restaurant in Agoura Hills, California. (Jeff Vespa/WireImage)
My, how you’ve grown! Kendall and Kylie tower over Kim when they watch the MTV Awards together at The Forum in Inglewood, August 2014. (Jeff Kravitz/MTV1415/FilmMagic)
Kim is happy to be asked to the annual Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party at the Sunset Tower Hotel, Los Angeles in September 2006. She loved the grown-up magazine and this was the next best thing to being at one of its big fashion events. (Mark Davies/Getty Images)
Kim looks gorgeous and almost demure in front of her first Playboy cover at a celebration party at the Retreat Club, New York, in November 2007. Not quite Vogue though … (Rob Loud/Getty Images)
Kim is serious and seriously chic at the inaugural Vogue Paris Foundation Gala at the Palais Galliera in July 2015 … well it is Vogue! (Richard Bord/Wireimage)
The essential Kim Kardashian … (Stefanie Keenan/WireImage for PMK)
Kim turned out to be badly matched with second husband Kris Humphries, who had a height advantage of 18 inches. Even with six-inch heels she still had another foot to go. (John Shearer/WireImage)
Kim’s lifelong best friend Allison Azoff, pictured on her left, is not often photographed and ignores the celebrity world. She made a rare outing to support Kim at her bachelorette dinner at TAO in Las Vegas. (Denise Truscello/WireImage)
Kim and Kris’s wedding in Montecito, California, was a dazzling affair. Guests could wear white or black. Her Mother chose white while her stepfather opted for an elegant black tuxedo. (Startraks Photo/Rex Shutterstock)
The sweet smell of success: Kim always wanted her own scent, and now she has seven and counting. She is an old hand at promoting them. In your face at TAO launching her first fragrance ‘Kim Kardashian’ in February 2010. (Denise Truscello/WireImage)
During its UK campaign at Debenhams in Oxford Street in June 2011. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)
At Debenhams again for new scent ‘True Reflection’ in May 2012. (Neil Mockford/Getty Images)
Most of the cast of Keeping Up with the Kardashians were on hand to launch the suitably named Kardashian Khaos at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in 2011. The boutique was not a success and closed after three years. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Keeping up with the Jenners: A pregnant Kim joins her other family – Brandon, Brody, Bruce and Brandon’s wife Leah – at the 2013 release party for Cronies, the first EP from indie group Brandon & Leah. (Paul Archuleta FilmMagic)
Kanye West is a huge influence on Kim’s fashion choices. Her dress for the Met Ball in 2013 was described as a ‘pair of curtains’. (Jennifer Graylock/FilmMagic)
Kim and Kanye reworked her designer outfit at home for the GQ Men of the Year Awards. Kanye suggested the latex top. (Jonathan Hordle/Rex Shutterstock)
The monochrome look they both love was a dazzling success when Kim wore gold, including a new hair colour, to the Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment b
reakfast. (Steve Granitz/WireImage)
Sometimes being a celebrity can be great: Laughing in the front row at the BET Awards in Los Angeles with Kanye, Jay Z and his wife Beyoncé (although she doesn’t seem to be in on the joke). (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for BET)
But sometimes it can be horrid: Surrounded and almost crushed by the paparazzi, selfie-seekers with their smartphones, security personnel or just people who want to gawp at the star in Paris. (Marc Piasecki/GC Images)
Kanye called Kim a natural mother. Here she shares a tender moment with baby daughter North at the Givenchy Show, Paris, in September 2014. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
In a relaxed mood after leaving the Valentino Haute Couture Show at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in July 2012. (Trago/Wireimage)
Kim and Kanye love Paris and, in particular, the Fashion Weeks, which they always attend if they can. Here, unselfconsciously, they share a private moment at the Balmain Show in March 2015. (Pascal Le Segretain/ Getty Images)
Caitlyn Jenner said Kim had been ‘by far the most accepting’ about her gender transition. They take a walk in October 2014 before her stepfather told the world. (Gonzalo/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Kim was in the audience when Caitlyn made an inspirational speech as she accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles in July 2015. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Kim showed her serious side when she paid her first visit to Armenia in April 2015 and laid red tulips at the Genocide Memorial in the capital, Yerevan. (Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images)
The following month, more frivolously, she turned heads at the 2015 Met Ball in New York in a Roberto Cavalli gown – truly, a bird of paradise. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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