Damage control. Kim Kardashian damaged Marilyn Monroe’s dress after she wore it to the 2022 Met Gala in May. A Marilyn Monroe collector documented what the dress looks like after Kim wore it on the red carpet of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kim borrowed the dress Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy in 1962 from Ripley’s Believe it Or Not!
Museum. The theme for the Gala was Gilded Glamour. The museum released a statement regarding the decision to loan the dress, “great care was taken to preserve this piece of pop culture history.
With input from garment conservationists, appraisers, and archivists, the garment’s condition was top priority … no alterations were to be made to the dress.” The Skims founder revealed in a Vogue interview that she lost 16 pounds to fit into the dress.
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