Met Gala 2022: Kim Kardashian only wore original Marilyn Monroe gown for a few minutes before swapping to replica

Kim was beneath very strict guidelines (Image: AP/REuters/Getty)

Kim Kardashian solely wore Marilyn Monroe’s historic ‘Comfortable Birthday, Mr President’ robe on the 2022 Met Gala for a matter of minutes.

The Skims entrepreneur, who stated she was ‘extraordinarily respectful’ of the costume, wowed as she took to the crimson carpet on the glitzy occasion alongside comic boyfriend Pete Davidson, 28, within the gorgeous nude sheer robe embellished with crystals.

It was famously worn by Hollywood icon Monroe in 1962 when she serenaded President John F Kennedy from on stage for his birthday, inflicting a sensation.

Kim, 41, needed to match the costume – shedding 16lbs – and never the opposite method round, as no alterations have been going to made on a costume which offered for $4.8million (£3.8m) at Julien’s Auctions in 2016, earlier than later acquired by Ripley’s Imagine It Or Not Museum.

It was additionally transported by guards, which is honest sufficient for a robe of that worth, which is normally saved in a darkened, temperature and humidity-controlled vault.

Nonetheless, the strict quasi-military operation noticed the fact TV star in a position to make the most of a duplicate of the costume too, additionally owned by Ripley’s, which was used for her fittings too.

The fact star in the true costume, a forerunner of immediately’s in style ‘bare attire’ (Image: Erik Pendzich/Rex/Shutterstock)

Kim confirmed off blonde hair to finish the look too (Image: Getty)

Monroe at Madison Sq. Backyard within the costume, singing comfortable birthday to President John F Kennedy (Image: Bettmann Archive)

Confirming that she wore the unique robe just for images on the red-carpet stairs, Kim advised Vogue: ‘I’m extraordinarily respectful to the costume and what it means to American historical past.’

Sharing that she made additional alterations as she ready to put on it, she added: ‘I might by no means wish to sit in it or eat in it or have any threat of any injury to it and I gained’t be carrying the form of physique make-up I normally do.’

‘Every part needed to be particularly timed and I needed to follow strolling up the steps.’

Kim additionally wore a white stole for some images (Image: Getty)

Monroe within the costume with Steve Smith, Kennedy’s brother-in-law (Image: AP)

It was additionally revealed that the star left her resort in a dressing robe to move to a specifically arrange becoming room proper by the Met Gala steps, so as to rigorously grow to be the true piece with the assistance of a white-gloved Ripley’s conservationist.

After that excessive stage of preparation and care, it’s little shock that Kim was later noticed leaving The Ritz-Carlton Resort with Pete – who appears to have just lately added a tattoo representing Kim’s kids’s names to his assortment – in fairly extra cozy apparel, as they appeared to skip any after-parties.