While we know famous faces like Kanye and Rihanna for their musical careers, there’s a celebrity fashion side hustle culture that is earning the world’s biggest stars billions of $$$ as they diversify their roster.

New research reveals the celebrities making the most money from their entrepreneurial endeavours, with some bringing in as much as $1.7bn a year!

The highest earning celebrity fashion entrepreneurs Rank Celebrity Business Revenue

Kanye West - Yeezy - $1,700,000,000

Jessica Simpson - The Jessica Simpson Collection -$1,000,000,000

Kate Hudson - Fabletics - $500,000,000

Rihanna Savage - X Fenty - $150,000,000

Kim Kardashian - Skims - $145,000,000

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen - The Row - $71,400,000

Lauren Conrad - LC Lauren Conrad - $60,000,000

Khloe Kardashian - Good American - $21,000,000

Reese Witherspoon - Draper James - $16,000,000

Nicole Richie - House of Harlow - $15,500,000

*Trailblazing through life, Kanye West is the most successful celebrity entrepreneur as his acclaimed fashion brand, Yeezy, is making an estimated $1.7 billion every year in revenue. Eclipsing his business savvy wife’s Skims brand, Kanye gets to pocket a sweet $147 million of his revenues. Maybe he is a genius after all....

*Jessica Simpson’s collection also tops the charts thanks to its long established mark on the fashion industry. Launching initially in 2005 as a shoe collection, Jessica has since expanded the brand to be the ultimate Americana women’s fashion brand.

Fashion earns celebs the most out of any industry - and has the most celeb businesses:

Fashion - 18 Businesses - $3,706,569,390

Entertainment - 11 Businesses - $2,031,200,000

Beauty - 8 Businesses - $1,403,900,000

Food & Drink - 18 Businesses - $717,980,000

Lifestyle - 6 Businesses - $71,900,000