2005 is presented as a blueprint, not nostalgia, for how fashion and commerce operate today. Refinery29 marks its 20th anniversary by revisiting that year in a special episode of R29 The Rewind, in which Kimora Lee Simmons sits down with Refinery29 Chief Content Officer Brooke DeVard to trace the cultural and commercial forces that defined the era.
The conversation centers on Baby Phat, the label Kimora built into a cultural touchstone, and on the wider influence of early-2000s music and pop culture. Together they unpack Kimora’s life at the height of that moment, and how those dynamics continue to shape fashion, money, and culture.