Kim Kardashian May Have Damaged Marilyn Monroe’s Dress She Wore To The Met Gala
etcanada.comMarilyn Monroe’s famed “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress appears to have been damaged after Kim Kardashian wore it to the 2022 Met Gala.
New photos of the dress taken show that fabric along the back has been stretched and ripped and crystal embellishments are missing and in some places hanging by a thread.
The photos were taken on Sunday by a visitor to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum in Hollywood and sent to the Instagram account @marilynmonroecollection for posting. READ MORE: Kim Kardashian Gifted Some Of Marilyn Monroe’s Hair, Wears Another One Of Her Gowns “So much for keeping ‘the integrity of the dress and the preservation,'” the account tweeted, alluding to comments made by Ripley’s and Kardashian that they went above and beyond to preserve the dress as it made its Met Gala outing.
The Marilyn Monroe Collection Instagram tagged Ripley’s, asking, “was it worth it?” Ripley’s bought Monroe’s Jean Louis dress in 2016 at an auction, paying $4.8 million U.S.
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