Kim Kardashian says people ‘didn’t know’ who Marilyn Monroe was before she wore her iconic dress.
The Kardashians star rocked Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ dress at the 2022 Met Gala and ended up facing a huge backlash afterwards.
The SKIMS owner was accused of damaging the garment, which she strongly denied, as well as being slammed for the strict diet she began before the red carpet event.
But now Kim is raising even more eyebrows thanks to her new comments about the Hollywood legend…
Kardashian’s wearing of the dress had a lot of controversial elements…
Firstly, she revealed to Vogue that she dropped more than a stone in weight in just three weeks.
She claimed she ‘would wear a sauna suit twice a day, run on the treadmill, completely cut out all sugar and all carbs, and just eat the cleanest veggies and protein’.
This led to Kim being called out for promoting ‘unhealthy’ weight loss.
nother aspect of the dress-wearing which sparked a backlash was the question marks over whether Kardashian did damage to the historical artefact.
Photographs taken by Scott Fortner, a collector who works to authenticate and verify Monroe memorabilia, appeared to show stretched and buckled fabric and missing crystals on the back of the dress.
The post quotes the dress’s owner, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, who at the time claimed ‘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 and Kim even changed into a replica after the red carpet!’.
While the International Council of Museums states that ‘historic garments should not be worn by anybody, public or private figures’, as per The Guardian.
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