Kim Kardashian didn’t ruin Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress at the Met Gala.
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not !, the company that owns Monroe’s suit and ceded it to Kardashian for the May event, said in a statement Thursday that, despite claims to the contrary, Kardashian “did not harm, in any way. way, the piece in the little amount of moment that was taken to the Met Gala “.
Amanda Joiner, Ripley’s vice president of publications and licensing, accompanied the suit as it was transported from Florida to New York and also as Kardashian wore it. He said the dress remained the same “from the bottom of the steps of the Met, where Kim put the dress, to the top where she came back.”
Ripley’s said the dress was slightly damaged at the time the company acquired it through an auction in 2016, with “some of the seams stretched and worn” and “wrinkled at the back by hooks and eyes.”
Monroe made the dress famous when she wore the “Happy Birthday” song to President Kennedy in 1962. Kardashian only wore the dress for the photos on the red carpet before swapping for a replica she had made. for the rest of the event.
The dress is now on display at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Hollywood until the fall.