Kim Kardashian May Have Damaged Marilyn Monroe’s Dress She Wore To The Met Gala
14.06.2022 - 07:39
/ etcanada.com
Marilyn 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.
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“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. Monroe famously wore the dress to sing “Happy Birthday” to U.S. President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1962.
Kardashian said that when she tried the dress on for the first time in the run-up to the Met Gala that it didn’t fit her. But she told Ripley’s, “Give me three weeks”, adding, “I had to lose 16 pounds down today.” Kardashian only wore the gown for the red carpet portion of the Gala, changing into a replica address for the remainder of the evening.
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For its part, Ripley’s claimed “great care was taken to preserve this piece of pop culture history.” In a statement released after the Met, Ripley’s said “no