| Everything for today's infant who goes places. | | | | designed with the legend "Baby Phat" printed on |
| Every year the top designers unveil their latest | | | | them. The shirts were donned by female |
| fashion creations for the little people of the world. | | | | celebrities and models and garnered quite a bit of |
| This doesn't mean fashion designs for the | | | | attention. The Baby Phat line was born and |
| Warwick Davises and Billy Bartys of the world, | | | | Simmons made his wife Kimora Lee the line's |
| nor those who don't make in a year what Paris | | | | creative director. Baby Phat produces clothes for |
| Hilton leaves for a tip after lunch at Sardi's. The | | | | young girls (sorry, make that "girlz") from their |
| little ones that the fashion gurus design for are | | | | teens all the way down to infancy. Baby Phat |
| infants and designer baby clothes, as bizarre as | | | | baby wear includes tees priced from $11.00 to |
| the concept seems, grow more popular each | | | | $18.00 and matching outfits ranging in price from |
| year. Despite the fact that the child will outgrow | | | | $34.00 to $42.00. |
| the garments in very little time, well to do parents | | | | Anne Geddes |
| love to ooh and aah over fashionable items | | | | One of the latest names in baby clothes is that of |
| designed by the likes of Christian Dior, Kimora | | | | famed photographer Anne Geddes. Apparently |
| Lee, and others. The top fashion houses produce | | | | inspired by the popularity of her famous photos |
| body suits, bibs, booties, and bonnets that are | | | | of babies dressed up as bumble bees, ladybugs, |
| soft to the touch, beautiful to behold, cost many | | | | sunflowers, and rosebuds, Geddes has launched |
| times more than the typical Kmart baby outfit | | | | "annegeddesbaby," a line of clothing for infants |
| and are just waiting to be urpped on by a baby | | | | that will allow parents to dress their newborns as, |
| suffering from colic. | | | | well, bumble bees, ladybugs, sunflowers, and |
| Baby Dior | | | | rosebuds. Included are pieces like the Ladybug |
| Perhaps the best known line of designer wear for | | | | Jacket ($39.50), the Bunny Suit, Hat and Booties |
| infants comes from Christian Dior. Dubbed Baby | | | | Set ($69.50), and the Rosebud Quilt ($29.50). |
| Dior, the line includes items like the sweet 100% | | | | Designer baby clothes may not be the easiest |
| cotton Dior baby body suit with pink or blue | | | | thing for the more frugal parent out there to |
| snaps, the Dior teddy bear logo on the chest, and | | | | comprehend, but they're for real and they're being |
| a price tag of $55.00 from E Luxury dot com. | | | | purchased in droves. The one nice thing about the |
| The site is nice enough to point out that parents | | | | phenomena for all of the parents who can't afford |
| who find this item attractive may also like the | | | | such infantile extravagancies (or who just won't |
| $115.00 Baby Dior hooded towel. | | | | pay those kinds of prices) is that the babies |
| Baby Phat | | | | wearing these labels today will outgrow them |
| Leave it to Rap pioneer and Def Jam records | | | | tomorrow and a lot of the items will grace the |
| founder Russell Simmons to innovate a way to | | | | shelves of your local Salvation Army or Goodwill |
| bring a bit of bling into the nursery. To promote | | | | store sometime after that, bearing a pinned on |
| his Phat Farm line of men's hip-hop styles, | | | | price tag that reads $1.50. |
| Simmons had a number of small tee shirts | | | | |