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Kim Kardashian poses for the GQ Men of the Year cover speaking about what she had learned from her father, Robert Kardashian

12:28, November 15

Kim Kardashian has posed for the GQ Men of the Year cover and recalled a number of events related to her father, the well-known lawyer Robert Kardashian.

Kim Kardashian still remembers her father telling her about the time, not long after the O.J. Simpson trial, when he went to see a psychic. The trial had been a difficult period for Robert Kardashian, who hadn’t practiced law in years, GQ writes, adding thar the trial thrust Robert and his family into the public eye for nearly a year, an exhausting level of scrutiny. Then he started receiving death threats. So one afternoon he sought out a seer to find out what the fates had in store for his family.

The meeting went against his nature. A devout Christian, he’d always heeded the Bible’s warning against psychics and mediums. But now here he was, listening to a prophecy that was so outlandish that it confirmed his suspicions. “She saw my last name and said, ‘Kardashian will be internationally known,’ ” Robert later told Kim. “This is how I know they’re full of shit!”

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In the interview with the magazine, Kim Kardashian also spoke about her SKIMS brand, particularly the recent collaborations with sports stars for the brand's men line.

“I just wanted men to find out what all the hype is about,” says Kim.

Her interest in menswear—and clothing in general—goes back to her father. “This man had style,” says his ex-wife and Kim’s mother, Kris Jenner. When she and Robert started dating, in the mid-’70s, he wore almost exclusively Gucci: sport coats, pants, loafers. He and his brother Tommy were such loyal customers that the Beverly Hills store would call to let them know whenever the latest collection had arrived. “The first gift Robert ever got me,” says Kris, “was a fancy Canon camera that I could never figure out how to use. The second gift he got me was a beautiful Gucci bag. I was a flight attendant at the time, and I was just so excited.”

As a child, Kim would often play in her father’s closet, with its precisely organized ties, belts, and suits. “When I was five or six,” she says, “I was climbing up a shelf and the shelf gave way. I just remember waking up in the hospital with a concussion.”

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Robert evolved his wardrobe as the years passed. “He always wanted to look cool,” says Kim, recalling the time in her teens when she worked at the trendy Encino clothing store Body. “Diesel was one of the brands we carried. They had a cool pair of jeans. They were wax-coated. My dad’s office was really close by, so he’d always stop in. He said, ‘I have to have those.’ I got them for him. He would wear them with just a black T-shirt and a loafer.”

Today Kim likes to remember her father in head-to-toe Gucci, not the pajamas he was confined to at the end, during the last weeks of his battle with esophageal cancer.

Robert Kardashian remains a novel character in the family. He’s the Kardashian that most of us never knew, or never got to know in the context that we now know the others. But his influence has never abated, especially the influence he had on his middle daughter, who has been thinking about him a lot lately; this past September marked the 20th anniversary of his death.

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Kim remembers one particular conversation from his last days. “I know you’re going to be okay,” Robert told her. “It’s almost like I can see ahead. I know you’re going to be okay, but just take care of your siblings for me. Just make sure you take care of them.”

She still thinks about those words. Just take care of your siblings for me. From then on, she considered her family and their ambitions in a new light. “I took what he said to mean that I was going to be okay in life,” she says. “But it made me make decisions differently.”


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