Tyra Banks, host and executive producer of The CW’s long-running runway competition, has tapped former Chanel muse and Baby Phat founder Kimora Lee Simmons as a judge on the forthcoming 14th cycle of ANTM.

This won’t be Kimora’s first foray sharing the small screen with her on-again/off-again bestie — she formerly appeared as a judge on the first season of Top Model, alongside ex-supermodel Janice Dickinson.

Kenzo Lee Hounsou, born in June, is the first son for Djimon and Kimora, who has two daughters from her marriage to hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.

Kimora Lee Simmons and her boyfriend, Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou, have announced their newborn son’s name on the popular micro-blogging website Twitter.

“Welcome into the world Kenzo Lee Hounsou,” the model-turned-fashion mogul wrote in Tweet Wednesday morning.

Kenzo — named in honor of retired Japanese fashion icon Kenzo Takada — was born in New York City on Saturday, weighing in at 8 pounds, and was 20 inches long.

The baby boy is the third child for the Baby Phat founder — who already has two daughters, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee, with ex-husband Russell Simmons.

How do you feel about the name Kenzo?

Fashionista Kimora Lee Simmons and Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou are reportedly expecting their first child together.

Us Magazine broke news on Friday, sourcing a close friend of the couple. The 33-year-old Baby Phat designer has two daughters, Ming Lee, 8, and Aoki Lee, 6, with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who she officially divorced in 2008.

Kimora Lee Simmons won’t be living life in the “Fab Lane” much longer if the E! Network has anything to say about it.

Networks executives have reportedly decided to pull the plug on the hit reality series Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane after becoming fed up with the show’s bitchy frontwoman.

The Baby Phat designer and former Chanel muse is described as a terror to work with.

Kimora is “bossy, erratic, and bullies underlings,” one TV insider scornfully spilled in the Jan. 26 issue of The National Enquirer.

For three seasons, Kimora has verbally assaulted her crew, and is known to go “nuts” at the drop of a hat, another Enquirer spy revealed this week.

“Kimora is a nightmare, plain and simple.”

According to the scoop, Kimora has agreed to sever ties with Entertainment Television-as long as she is presented with a generous payoff.

“Everyone is breathing a sign of relief that they may not have to deal with Kimora’s antics anymore.”

Kimora Lee Simmons Baby Phat Fall/Winter 2008/2009: New York Fashion Week at the Roseland Ballroom on Friday night.

Russell Simmons and Joss Stone

Kimora’s other-half Djimon Hounsou

Tyra and Ms. Jay

Star Jones

Vivica A. Fox

Christina Milian

Here’s a preview of the Spring/Summer 2008 Baby Phat ad campaign. The campaign is set to debut in the March 2008 issues of Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, Nylon Magazines.

PETA is defending its newest nude spokesmodel, Kimora Lee Simmons, against claims that she is a hypocrite because her fashion line still uses fur.

The designer appears naked alongside her pet pooch in the latest PETA advertisement, urging people to stop caging dogs:

“You cannot just chain up an animal. It’s cruel. Dogs need to run and play.”

But critics have pointed out that Kimora’s Baby Phat fashion company still sells clothes made from rabbit fur. A PETA spokesperson tells the New York Daily News, “Baby Phat is working at phasing out real fur.”

Kimora Lee Simmons is the latest celebrity to take it all off for PETA. The fashion maven is featured in an ad campaign entitled Be An Angel For Dogs.

Baby Phat founder, the not-quite-divorced-yet Kimora Lee Simmons was spotted lip-locking with a tall blonde woman at New York’s Cipriani Upstairs lounge on Thursday night.

The blonde had been hanging around K.L.S all-night and climbed up on the bar to dirty dance in front of the six-foot tall fashion designer before giving her a smack on the lips.

Kimora’s publicist claims the kiss was “a friendly kiss hello to a party guest.”