Marilyn Monroe's dress designer criticizes letting Kim Kardashian wear it at the Met Gala

Marilyn Monroe's dress designer criticizes letting Kim Kardashian wear it at the Met Gala

Allowing Kim Kardashian to wear Marilyn Monroe's dress is a huge mistake. This is what fashion designer Bob Mackie, designer of the gold Marilyn Monroe dress that Mim Kardashian wore at the XNUMX Met Gala.

"I thought it was a big mistake, Marilyn Monroe was a goddess, a crazy goddess, but a goddess, just gorgeous," the legendary costume designer responsible for Monroe's original 1962 dress, Mackie, told Entertainment Weekly. Nobody portrayed like this. It was done for her, it was designed for her, no one else should have appeared in this dress.”

"In fact, the dress was not only designed for Monroe, it was actually dyed to perfectly match her skin tone and sewn onto her body prior to her famous 'Happy Birthday, Mr. President' performance at Madison Square Garden," Mackey added.

It wasn't just McKee who was critical of letting Kim Kardashian borrow the dress, not just because it's Marilyn Monroe's dress, but for dress safety and storage reasons, TCM host Alicia Malone said, "There are all the issues with actually maintaining the dress and things like oxygen can affect the dress." Usually, these clothes are frequently kept in controlled environments, and the costume institute is very careful about how they treat these historical items, so it was troubling that she was able to wear it. Personally, I wish she was wearing a replica instead of the same dress.”

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