In conversation with VIP hairstylist Chris Appleton leading up to the big evening, the mother of four also detailed the walkup to wearing Monroe’s dazzling sequined outfit.
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“All of this — this losing weight, dyeing the hair for 30 hours, leaving the inn in a robe, getting there, changing on honorary pathway, simply walking to honorary pathway, then changing again into a replica of the dress because we can’t risk sitting in it and eating dinner — is all for maybe 10 minutes of my life … like, that’s it,” she added.
However Kim also showed her thought processes in borrowing the slinky number for the biggest fashion evening of the year were based on far in excess of a craving to make a mix.
“I love that Marilyn was a normal young lady that sorted it out and became the most famous woman in the whole world,” she said. “It’s simply fascinating.”
“That sounds like someone we know,” a maker then said off-camera, to which Kim guilefully answered: “Who?” Kim’s decision to wear the dress — which Monroe donned in 1962 to serenade President John F. Kennedy on his 45th birthday — was not without controversy or drama. It was also something that didn’t happen out of the blue.
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“Nobody confided in us; for years, they could never send samples,” Kim said during last week’s episode of The Kardashians. “Then once I would get to Paris and take a stab at the samples, they would be like, ‘Gracious, wait, she actually fits in our stuff.’ So I don’t know how to convince the person who possesses the original Marilyn dress that I’m a shapeshifter.”
Kim eventually shed 16 pounds in 3 weeks, she told Vogue on the gala’s honorary pathway.
“It was such a challenge. It was like a [movie] role. I was determined to fit [into] it,” she said at the time, defending her weight reduction. Be that as it may, beyond criticism for her extreme diet, she faced pushback for wearing the iconic garment in any case. In addition, there were allegations that the dress was damaged after she wore it. (Ripley’s denied any damage to the outfit.)
“I thought it was a big mistake,” originator Bounce Mackie told Entertainment Week after week after the Met Gala. “[Marilyn] was a goddess. A crazy goddess, however a goddess.
She was simply fabulous. No one photographs like that. And it was done for her. It was intended for her,” he argued. “No other person ought to be found in that dress.”
