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Kim Kardashian re-creates Brooke Shields' Calvin Klein ads

Shot_6_009_flatCkbrooke Radar magazine has ripped the seams -- and soiled the knees -- of the 1980s iconic Calvin Klein jeans ads by re-creating it for a photo shoot with Kim Kardashian in its September issue. (Gavin Bond took the shots.) Perhaps on the heels of Lindsay Lohan doing her Marilyn Monroe for New York magazine? In this shot, far left, Kardashian is actually wearing J Brand jeans.

When these "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins" ads came out, Brooke Shields was 15, and Klein was criticized for exploiting a teen. Kardashian is 27 and exploits her own assets. Wikipedia notes that her recognition is mostly due to the leak of a sex tape.
We've come a looong way, baby.

Photos: Kim Kardashian. Credit: Gavin Bond /For Radar; Brooke Shields. Credit: Calvin Klein

For the record: An earlier version of this post gave an incorrect age for Kim Kardashian.

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Kim is legal and has a wealth of beautiful A!!!

Looks like a cheap ad for Iranian soap detergent in the 70s.

Brooke is a STAR! there's no comparison. what's this wannabe trying to prove?

Bow-wow.

That is disgusting ... There is no comparision, This looks like an ad for a Bangkok whorehouse.. Kim Lardassian
is a joke to the human evolution..

She looks kind of fat.

Kardashian should stick with what she really knows-- and it's not modeling.

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