It looks like Kim Kardashian will have a hard time defending her top earning reality star crown next year. The Kardashian retail stores got a scathing review from New York Times, and their fashion line is in the danger of being dropped by its partner, clothing retailer bebe.

New York Times' Jon Caramica gave the Kardashian sisters' store DASH in New York, a scathing review in column Critical Shopper this week. DASH New York branch has been reported to be the top-earning branch of the three DASH stores with its shelves always emptied by New Yorkers, but Caramica isn't convinced by the hype.

"Dash is a pretense: a retail pied-à-terre via which the sisters can expand their entrepreneurial interests... A hastily assembled store to serve as a story line and location for a third-degree reality show spinoff: Who says the real estate market is dead?," wrote Caramice.

Now, after the negative review from the influential New York Times, the Kardashians had essentially become a sort of fashion pariah, with its partner Bebe, Inc. dropping it like a hot potato, from bebe stores. The fashion store has previously launched a line inspired by the Kardashian sisters.

In an interview with WWD, Bebe Inc, President Emilia Fabricant said, "The sisters do still have relevance, but at Bebe we need to move with fashion and we want to be first in the fashion world with everybody else and not fall behind. We are definitely assessing the situation."

Fans can hope that this will have a domino effect, but if Kardashians can drop a credit company, so could Bebe, Inc--- well, at least contemplate it, for now. This is quite a sad note to the opening of Kourtney and Kim Takes New York.