Kim K Ends Year With Cornrows And Birken Bag

Kim Kardashian is burning up the web with her newest hairstyle, but new braids or not, she’s still working her Birken bag, whose status among celebrities has been on a non-stop rise this year. Like the reality tv game they play or not, the Kardashians represent a new Amercian beauty standard…yep, still based on fantasy and impossible for most to achieve but somehow warmer, funner and more inclusive than those of years past. Will the fashion industry play catch up in the year 2011? Looking at the models chosen to walk the runways by leaders  like Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, one can’t help but be hopeful.