BEAUTY QUEEN
The offices of Kylie Cosmetics occupy the top floor of a boxy steel-and-glass building near the freeway in Calabasas, just outside Los Angeles, down the road from a shopping centre, a cluster of fast-food restaurants and a budget motor inn. If you were blindfolded and deposited in front of the building and asked to guess where you were, you might say Utah. Towards the end of my hourlong drive up from LA, an actual tumbleweed rolled along the shoulder of the 101.
Kylie Jenner — 22-year-old beauty mogul, mother of two-year-old daughter Stormi Webster (with rapper Travis Scott), and youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan — is somewhere inside that building, in the midst of her transformation into Marie Antoinette.
Longtime fans of (or ) remember Kylie as the precocious tween on the series, which debuted in 2007, when she was just 10 years old. Early on, Kylie and her older sister Kendall — matriarch Kris Jenner’s children with her then husband, Olympic gold medal winner Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner — would get into sitcom-style high jinks that provided a wholesome counterpoint to the more grown-up drama that embroiled older Kardashian siblings Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob. But over the past five years the Jenner sisters have forged their own paths: Kendall as a top model; and Kylie as the mastermind of a beauty brand that started out selling pout-enhancing Lip Kits and now includes a full suite of makeup and skincare products, with more on the way. Kylie and
