Sophie Simmons, Daughter of KISS Guitarist Gene Simmons, Launches Second Clothing Collection With The Style Club!
Model turned fashion designer, Sophie Simmons, who also happens to be the only daughter of legendary KISS guitarist Gene Simmons, is launching her second collection with fashion tech start-up, The Style Club — and it’s just in time for the holiday season!
The New Year’s Eve-inspired line is the first in the company’s history to feature sizes 00 to 18 and all items are priced under $200.
“The plus-size market lacks trendy, flattering and fun designs you see in every store,” the 22-year-old shares, who used to star on her family’s hit reality show, ‘Gene Simmons Family Jewels.’
“Every woman should feel empowered by their wardrobe so I’m thrilled to switch gears in this market by introducing classic, affordable styles that can be worn by all body types,” she added.
The 15-piece collection features everything from dresses and rompers to vegan leather and crushed velvet — so we’re basically drooling over everything already!
Watch Sophie’s super cute behind-the-scenes video for the brand below and check out her line at www.thestyleclub.com!
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Just don’t call it plus-size! Gene Simmons’ curvy daughter Sophie unveils collection of New Year’s Eve dresses for women of ALL shapes
Sophie Tweed-Simmons is back with her second clothing collection for Sophie x The Style Club in as many months – this time with jazzy dresses and jumpsuits for New Year’s Eve.
The famously outspoken daughter of Kiss legend Gene Simmons, who is a passionate advocate for healthy body image, has created the line to compliment ‘all women’ in sizes 00 to 18; priced between $49 and $180.
But be careful what you call it. ‘I hate the term ‘plus-size,’ Sophie, 22, tells MailOnline. ‘Can we all just be women please? Why label it? Why ruin a good thing?’
The 15-piece collection features rompers, jumpsuits and dresses from mini to maxi-length, adorned with French lace, vegan leather, crushed velvet and sequin embellishments.
Along with her partner, The Style Club founder Hilary Novelle, Sophie worked with a set of upcoming trends and then found a way to make them look good on her body.
Her first collection with The Style Club, which launched in fall and sold out in a mere 72 hours, was built in much the same way.
‘All the waistbands are elastic, which I prefer,’ she told MailOnline in October. ‘Essentially, the collection is based around my butt.’
Sophie, whose mother Shannon Tweed is a former Playboy Bunny, stands at 5’8″ and is a U.S. size 8-10.
‘I have never been a “skinny” girl, I’ve always been athletic and curvy and strong,’ she remarks, adding that her weight has fluctuated over the years.
Sophie Simmons Announces The Launch Of New Year’s Eve Inspired Dress Collection With Plus Size Expansion

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Following the huge success of her Fall 2014 capsule collection which sold out within the first 72 hours, Sophie Simmons the model turned fashion designer, today unveils her New Year’s Eve inspired dress collection which will feature a line of party dresses for all women including plus sizes. The collection will be available exclusively with The Style Club, the world’s first seamless fusion of an e-commerce shop, video channel and social platform. Launching today at 6 a.m. EST, the festive New Year’s Eve designs will be available for purchase at 30 percent off only through Sunday, December 14th atwww.thestyleclub.com, after which it will return to full retail price.
Additionally, Simmons joins The Style Club in the role of Creative Consultant and Brand Ambassador. In this role, Sophie will provide creative direction across marketing, creative design, media and be a brand ambassador for the company.
“We’re thrilled to officially bring Sophie into The Style Club family in this new capacity. Her passion for unique style, coupled with her desire to offer something special to the market for women of all shapes, sizes, and means speaks to the value we try to provide for our users and customers every day,” says The Style Club founder Hilary Novelle Hahn. “Sophie is wise beyond her years and with an asset like her, we look forward to exciting new endeavors in 2015 and beyond.”
“I couldn’t be more honored that Hilary Novelle Hahn has chosen to partner with me” exclaimed Simmons, “I’m very excited to work with another young woman who started from the ground up. Hopefully together we can help form the face of female entrepreneurship in fashion.”
Regarding the New Year’s Eve inspired collection, Simmons continues “I’m thrilled to release this new line that I hope will complement all women. I hate the term ‘plus size’. My dream is to create affordable, empowering and flattering clothing for women of all sizes without labeling them.”
In classic hues from black to ivory and holiday red to festive wine, the 15-piece collection features rompers, jumpsuits and dress hems from mini to maxi, adorned with French lace, vegan leather, crushed velvet and sequin embellishments. For the first time in the history of the site, the collection will also offer sizing from 00-18. The majority of the collection is affordably priced under $100, with the entire collection priced under $200, allowing women of all sizes to ring in the New Year in style! To purchase, go towww.thestyleclub.com .
About Sophie Simmons
Sophie Simmons is a model, singer/songwriter, fashion designer and the founder and owner of Sophie’s Place – a charitable organized based in Vancouver which provides a place of sanctuary and support for vulnerable young people. Simmons is the daughter of legendary KISS bassist Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed-Simmons and grew up on A&E’s “Gene Simmons Family Jewels”. Simmons is currently filming season 2 of “Shannon and Sophie” on Canada’s W Network. For more information, visithttp://sophietsimmons.com.
About The Style Club
Created by 29-year old entrepreneur Hilary Novelle Hahn, The Style Club is an unparalleled and seamless fusion of an e-commerce shop, video channel and social platform for the tech-savvy, trend-driven fashionista. The site collaborates with bloggers, models and fashion influencers to curate original content to serve as your go-to source for the latest trends in fashion and beauty. For more information, please visit www.thestyleclub.com.
KISS star brings some glam rock to the Dail bar
The bassist and co-lead vocalist left his stage persona The Demon at home to give some rock and roll to Leinster House.
While in town for a private visit, Simmons was invited into Leinster House by Fine Gael Clare TD Pat Breen.
It is understood the rock star and Mr Breen, who is chair of the foreign affairs committee, have a mutual friend who is a US based Irish business and a leading immigration advocate.
The pair were spotted drinking tea and coffee in the public bar before Simmons – who has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide with kiss – popped in to the nearby Merrion Hotel.
It appears the Leinster rugby team are among their fans here. Last year its stars – Dave Kearney, Brendan Macken, Rob Kearney and Brian O’Driscoll – dressed up as glam rockers Kiss for their Christmas party.
What was Gene Simmons from KISS doing at Leinster House today?
GENE SIMMONS — BASSIST and vocalist in Kiss and one of the world’s most shameless self-promoters — was in Dublin yesterday.
Photocall Ireland photographer Sam Boal captured these images of the star, as TDs went about their business inside.
Today Simmons told Ray D’Arcy he was in the Dáil as a guest of Fine Gael TD Pat Breen. The two have a mutual friend in US-based Irish businessman Billy Lawless.
The 65-year-old frontman, who has licensed the ‘Kiss’ brand for use on everything from lunchboxes to condoms, said Leinster House was “full of wonderful people and history”.
He added he was happy to visit Dublin during a break on a two-year long tour to enjoy “good friends and nice food”.
TheJournal.ie has contacted Breen for comment, but he has not yet responded – he’s currently chairing a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting. Simmons is not thought to be in attendance.
GENE SIMMONS’ DAUGHTER TALKS BODY SHAMING, FEMINISM, AND REFUSING TO BE RETOUCHED
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“I have an idea,” Sophie Tweed-Simmons says when we meet for coffee on the Upper East Side in New York. “How about if I ask strangers on the street if they’d dance with me? I’ve always wanted to do that.”
The Sophie x TheStyleClub designer is brainstorming on our way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the photo shoot we’re about to do. We’re going to check out the “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire” exhibit, a winking choice — Tweed-Simmons is the daughter of Gene Simmons, one of the founding members of the rock band KISS and famous for dressing in all-black goth-style costumes.
It’s the first truly cold day in New York this winter. Outside the coffee shop, moms are pushing bundled-up babies, and older couples are strolling even more slowly. Among them, Tweed-Simmons, 22, who’s also an actress and a singer, stands out. She’s wearing what she calls her “pimp coat” — a long, bright floral jacket with a velvet collar that used to belong to her mom, actress and Playboy model Shannon Tweed.
Sophie Tweed-Simmons Is Anti-Photoshop, Becoming The Latest Celeb To Take A Stand Against Retouching And Embrace Body Positivity
I knew I loved Sophie Tweed-Simmons when she launched her capsule collection for TheStyleClub back in October. Her line includes pieces that are made to fit all different body types, and the items are named after influential women like Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and Arianna Huffington. But just when I thought I couldn’t admire her more, the daughter of KISS rocker Gene Simmons is revealing she’s not in support of Photoshopping images. YES.
The model, singer, and designer revealed in an interview with Yahoo! Style that the images for her collection were originally doctored, but she asked to have the edits reversed. “When the first shots of her posing in Sophie x TheStyleClub came back she thought, ‘My legs look too good,’” the article says. “She asked if they’d been altered using Photoshop and after learning that they had, she said what very few people would: ‘Can you change them back?’”
What few people would, indeed. It’s one thing to say you’re against Photoshop, but it’s quite another to say that you don’t want your own photos edited. It’s something I’ve thought about before: It would be extremely tempting to have your “imperfections” Photoshopped away in images that hundreds of thousands of people would lay their eyes on.
We all have things we don’t like about ourselves, and here’s this computer program that allows us to take them away — just like magic! But the ability to change features and blur physical insecurities comes with a price, and a big one at that. By using Photoshop, we’re elevating the standard of beauty to something unattainable for the average woman, and that sets us up for disappointment and confidence issues.
If more public figures like Sophie and influential people in the fashion industry took a stand against Photoshop and decided to celebrate bodies the way they were made, I truly think the world would be a better place. So thanks, Sophie, for bravely asking to have Photoshop reversed in your collection images.
Sophie Tweed-Simmons proud of pimp coat
The daughter of actress-and-model Shannon Tweed and rocker Gene Simmons is making her mark on the industry with her Sophie x TheStyleClub fashion collection.
While she’s keen not to be forever associated with her famous parents’ work, she’s more than happy to share clothes with her stylish mother. In fact, part of her winter wardrobe is a long floral jacket with a velvet collar that belonged to Shannon. Speaking to Yahoo! Style, the 22-year-old proudly referred to it as her “pimp coat”.
In fact, the style star has always dipped in and out of her mother’s clothing collection. But growing up the same size as her mom wasn’t always easy for Sophie, who had to endure the harsh glare of the media spotlight.
“We went on a family vacation, and I was wearing a thong bikini like my favourite celebrity, Sofía Vergara,” she recalled. “And someone took my picture. As a 17-year-old girl, I had to see my butt on the cover of The Daily Mail with the headline ‘Gene Simmons’ plus-size daughter.’
“It made the global news circuit. I grew up a chubby kid and into a curvy girl. I was OK with it, but the world wasn’t. I have cellulite, stretch marks, and freckles, and that’s fine with me.”
Now, Sophie won’t let her fashion shoots be photoshopped and hopes to promote a healthy body image for other young girls. Her aim is to bring an affordable line to females of any size.
“I’m not a high-fashion model, and I’m not plus size,” the star, who fluctuates between US size 8 and 12, said. “Which is weird for fashion, but not for life. A lot of designers that I love don’t fit me. I wanted to do cuts that would be flattering to girls who have some shape.”
Gene Simmons’ Daughter Sophie Says She Refuses to be Retouched in Photos
Sophie Tweed-Simmons, the daughter of legendary rocker Gene Simmons, recently sat down with Yahoo Style to discuss her views on fame, body shaming, and her decision to not be retouched in photos.
Being the daughter of a famous rockstar and playmate has prompted Simmons to shy away from fame in an attempt to establish herself as her own entity, she explained.
However, it was her passion for style and fashion that eventually led her to use her famous name as a way to launch her clothing line.
“I felt like I really had the chance to give girls confidence with affordable clothing,” she explained. “If you have a platform, you should use it.”
Simmons’ fashion collaboration with the Style Club has allowed her to create garments for average-sized women like herself who fluctuate in size and embrace their curvy frames.
“I’m not a high-fashion model, and I’m not plus size, which is weird for fashion, but not for life,” Tweed revealed. “A lot of designers that I love don’t fit me. I wanted to do cuts that would be flattering to girls who have some shape.”
Although Simmons admits that she loves her curvy frame, she did recall a time when her body was publicly criticized in the media and was labeled as plus-size.
“We went on a family vacation, and I was wearing a thong bikini like my favorite celebrity, Sofîa Vergara,” she recalled. “As a 17-year-old girl, I had to see my butt on the cover of The Daily Mail with the headline ‘Gene Simmons plus-size daughter.’ It made the global news circuit. I grew up a chubby kid and into a curvy girl. I was OK with it, but the world wasn’t. I have cellulite, stretch marks, and freckles, and that’s fine with me.”
Despite the public shame and humiliation, Simmons has gone on to remain confident and comfortable in her skin and refuses to let photographers digitally alter her images, she says.
When shooting the promotional photos for her Style Club launch, Simmons revealed that she asked the photographers to keep her photos unedited.
Fans can subscribe to the Style Club to shop Sophie Tweed-Simmons’ line, which includes floral leggings, loose cardigans and sequined skirts, Yahoo Style reports.
















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