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Is Baby Phat still made?

Baby Phat is still made, relaunched in December 2019 with the same cat logo, so date a piece by its interior care label, cut and rhinestone setting rather than the logo.Illustration: LinkToLooks

Yes. Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons launched in 1999 as a womenswear line off Phat Farm and was relaunched in December 2019 under Simmons, using the same rhinestoned cat logo. That is why the logo alone cannot date a garment.

The dates that answer the question

Year	What happened
1999	Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons launches as a womenswear offshoot of the menswear label Phat Farm, with low-rise jeans and tops carrying a rhinestoned curved cat
2000	First solo show at New York Fashion Week; Simmons becomes president and creative director
Mid 2000s	Peak: ranked the most sought-after ticket of New York Fashion Week by the New York Daily News
2019	Rihanna buys an entire Baby Phat archive from a collector
December 2019	The brand is relaunched
2026	548 live US listings, almost all peer-to-peer resale; no settled overall median

What the market asks today

Slice	Listings priced	Cheapest	Median	Dearest
Titles saying vintage, vtg, Y2K or 2000s	95	$6.00	$35.00	$350.00
Everything named Baby Phat	548	$5.00	—	$380.00

Method: every US listing naming Baby Phat in an affiliate product feed was pulled on 8 September 2026 and deduplicated to 548 rows, read to a depth of 800 rows requested. Peer-to-peer asks of $500 or more and repdigit prices are excluded as placeholders. These are asking prices on one date, not sold prices.

The interesting part is how small the vintage premium is. A word that promises the original run moves the median by a few dollars, because buyers know it is unverifiable — and because the relaunch sells the same silhouettes new.

How to date a piece when the logo cannot

Interior care label. Fibre content wording, care symbols and country-of-origin change between production runs; the outside artwork does not.
Rise and cut. The original run is a low-rise era garment. A modern mid-rise jean carrying the cat is from the relaunch.
Hardware. Original-run rhinestone work is dense and set into the garment; photograph the reverse of a stone field and look at the setting.
Ask, then verify. No listing in this pull photographs a label, so every vintage claim in the market today is a seller's word.

No listing in this pull photographs an interior care label or country-of-origin tag, so nothing on this page is dated to the original run rather than the 2019 relaunch. Current-season Baby Phat is not present in the affiliate feeds we can read, so we publish no new-retail price.

Last verified 8 September 2026 against 548 live US Baby Phat listings in the CJ product feed, and against the Wikipedia article on Baby Phat for the brand history. Peer-to-peer asks of $500 or more are excluded as seller placeholders, as are repdigit asks such as $999 and $9,999. Asking prices are what sellers want on this date; they are not sold prices.

Baby Phat in 2026, asked plainly

Is Baby Phat still in business?

Yes. Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons launched in 1999, went quiet, and was relaunched in December 2019 under Simmons. Current production reuses the original cat logo and several of the original silhouettes.

How can I tell original Baby Phat from the relaunch?

Not from the logo, which is common to both. Interior care labels, country-of-origin tags and the cut are where the difference shows: the original run leaned on low-rise denim, cropped faux-fur-lined puffers, baby-doll tees and velour sets.

What does Baby Phat sell for now?

On the US resale market, 548 live listings from $5.00 to $380.00. We do not quote an overall median this read: it had not stopped moving as we read deeper. Outerwear and bags hold the top of the range.

Do listings that say vintage ask more?

Yes, and by more than before. The 95 listings whose titles say vintage, vtg, Y2K or 2000s ask a median of $35.00; the median for everything named Baby Phat had not settled this read, so the comparison is against a range rather than a figure.

Where is Baby Phat sold?

Almost entirely secondhand in the feeds we can read: 100.0% of these listings are peer-to-peer. Current-season stock exists at the brand's own retail, which does not appear in the affiliate product feeds available to us.

Sources

Wikipedia, Baby Phat — the 1999 launch as a Phat Farm offshoot, Kimora Lee Simmons as designer and later president and creative director, the rhinestoned cat logo taken from her Siamese cat Max, the 2000 New York Fashion Week show, Rihanna buying an archive in 2019 and the December 2019 relaunch.
CJ Affiliate product feeds, US advertisers, queried 1 September 2026 — every price figure on this page.