kim kardashian surprised the whole world by arriving at the met gala held last Monday in New York with the Marilyn Monroe’s dress when he sang ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ to John F. Kennedy on May 19, 1962 at Madison Square Garden. An iconic piece that has not stopped talking since then, and that has earned the ‘celebrity’ several criticisms on social networks.
The first, that he has confessed that he had to make a express diet to lose 7 kilos to be able to wear the ‘naked dress’ of diamonds, and the second, that there is endangered a historic design and considered one of the most expensive dresses in history (the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum in Orlando, Florida, where it is exhibited, paid almost five million dollars in 2016 for this unique piece by French designer Jean-Louis).
Unable to zip up
And it is that, despite having removed carbohydrates and sugars for weeks, the businesswoman failed to zip up her fitted dress. The last minute solution: leave it open and cover your butt with a white fur shawl -like the one Marilyn used to wear- that she strategically dropped to her elbows.
Actually TV star she only wore the iconic piece for a little while on the red carpet. With her he was forbidden to sit, eat or use her usual body makeup. Then she changed and put on one of the two replicas prepared for the occasion. And she breathed easier.
various videosincluding the one in the museum that keeps the relic that had not been used in 60 years, show the moment of the test of the original dress: several people with gloves help to carefully climb the silk suit and hundreds of crystals.
Not being able to raise the zipper, they tie a ribbon around the model’s waist.
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Marilyn, who died in the summer of 1962, aged 36, from an overdose of sleeping pills, is said to have paid $1,440 for the bespoke piece, which holds the record for the most expensive dress sold at auction, making it one of the most expensive in the world.
The garment was so tight that Marilyn had to have the dress sewn up when she put it on moments before her performance for president.