Keeping Up with the Kardashians took Kim and Kourtney to Japan on Sunday night.
And the sisters brought with them many suitcases, changes of outfits… and lots of hard feelings.
The installment centered on Kim planning a trip to Tokyo to shoot a Yeezy campaign on behalf of her husband’s fashion brand.
“I love working with Kanye in that way because he will listen to me on things that are important to me, and I’ll trust him on colors and fabrics,” she said of the endeavor, adding:
“I only have a few days to get 20 looks shot.
“Japan is the campaign – we can’t recreate it. There are dozens of people working on this, so it is a lot of pressure.
“It’s my husband’s collection and I want to make sure that I do a good job and that he likes how everything turns out.”
This was the epitome of a First World Problem, but whatever, right?
It was a fair concern for Kim at the time, given the circumstances.
However, Kim decided to mix the personal with the professional by inviting Khloe and Kourtney along for the vacation.
Why would she do so, considering the tension that has existed between all three siblings throughout Season 15?
Probably because the script called for it, but maybe also to bury the hatchet.
All it took was one evening out, though, for the tension to return — which is what happens when one sister simply can’t handle what her loved one is wearing.
“I can’t even eat dinner because I’m so disgusted with my sisters’ crazy outfits that completely don’t go with my look,” Kim told the camera. “Like, I can’t take it.”
No, really, she could. Not. Even. Take. It.
“My sisters look so crazy,” Kim continued.
“It’s actually embarrassing. Kourtney with the Japanese-inspired outfit, and Khloé is wearing silver sequins, turquoise eyeshadow, huge chandelier earrings – they’re just like, completely clashing and making my outfit look really bad and they’re ruining everything.
“I need the Yeezy collection to be debuted and not all this crazy distraction in the background.”
Seriously, Khloe and Kourtney: How did you not consider the effect your fashion taste would have on Kim’s career?!?
Kim didn’t keep her feelings to herself, either.
She sat down with her siblings, told them they looked like “f-cking clowns” and continued to berate them as follows:
“I’m not kidding. This is not like, a tourist thing where it’s Halloween, dress up like a f-cking Japanese geisha, unless we’re at a geisha house.
“I just think you’ve got to like, chill. Like, you can be cooler. I’m not telling you guys who to be and what to wear or anything, but I’m telling you who to be and what to wear.
“It could be time for a fashion overhaul, so that you stay young and relevant.”
At another point, she told Kourtney she looked “like a f-cking grandma, 100 percent.”
After being informed that she doesn’t come across as “special” or “innovative,” Kourtney at last snapped and replied in a confessional:
“Now I think Kim’s just being rude, and rude to everyone in glam.
“We’re all doing fun looks together and it’s not that serious. I think Kim and I don’t always see eye-to-eye as far of the importance of traveling and living in the moment. …
“I have three children and a full-time job. I don’t have seven stylists.”
Kim defended her actions, saying she didn’t have time to “beat around the bush” while on location for a Yeezy campaign, while Kourtney countered that she just wanted to have some “fun.”
“Nobody wants to wake up and be criticized from head-to-toe the whole day long,” she sighed, finally lashing out as Kim for real:
“Would you rather me f-cking say your f-cking outfits suck? You’re wearing a puffy vest, you have pink hair and turquoise shoes.
“I didn’t come here to wear leggings that are see-through and show my ass off. Do you know easy it is to a bitch? I could be a bitch all f-cking day if that’s what you want.
“But guess what? It takes a lot more courage to show your feelings than to sit there and be a bitch.”
Okay, fine, Kim relented toward the end of the episode.
She said she takes pride in being “honest,” but that the “delivery” of her message may have been off.
But, hey, it was all worthwhile in the end!
“It was a lot of work but we did it, and with how amazing and pretty this city is, this campaign is going to be super dope,” she concluded.
“Kanye is so happy with how the shoot turned out and I feel like it was a really good trip for us overall.”
