But what is this story with Kim Kardashian and Marilyn Monroe's dress at the Met Gala?
The reality TV superstar took a year to put together her look for the fashion event of the year, the Met Gala. To get into it, Kim K followed a diet that scandalizes the Internet.
This year's theme was quite hard to respect, given the outfits judged off the mark. But the idea was the anthology of American fashion. Its defining, epic, iconic moments, and if it's from the late 1800s (considered America's Golden Age), even better.
And for Kim Kardashian, we don't look more American than Marilyn Monroe (we went for fast food to look really Rican, but that makes sense. And besides, who was going to come dressed as a hot dog?) . So, askip, there's nothing more iconic in the United States than Marilyn's bleached hair.
And above all, the translucent and sparkling dress that the actress wore the famous evening when she wished, in song, a happy birthday to President John F. Kennedy.
This night remained etched in the annals of fashion. A scandalous and very transparent dress, signed Jean Louis, a beloved French designer from old Hollywood. She will give birth to many other "naked" dresses.
We explain to you. We are in 1962 and Marilyn Monroe has a little message to convey: she will always do what pleases her. She goes on stage to do her little number and takes off her white fur. She is almost naked (for the time, huh, because today, we are much, much more daring). The audience is shocked (and, no doubt, a little excited). The actress is covered by 6,000 crystals but it is still not enough covering for the time. Especially since her production house didn't want her to wear things that were too revealing, on and off screen.
This moment of rebellion propelled the dress to the status of national treasure (we're a little overdoing it, but it's a bit like that anyway) and it will sell in 2016 at 4.8 million dollars! Just that. Especially when you know that Marilyn Monroe had it done for just over 1,000 euros.
Since the death of the actress, the outfit has hardly moved. It is kept in a room at a measured temperature and handled with great care. So to be able to wear Marilyn Monroe's dress, Kim Kardashian had to fight. And especially to have very rich friends who know the right people. And it paid off. The only condition: the dress must remain intact. You should not sit down, go to the toilet and even less eat with it.
When Kim K tries on a replica of the dress, it looks great on her. But a month before the Met Gala, during the fitting, we realize that the real one is too small! And since she didn't want any other outfit, she had to (well, she decided) lose 7 kg in three weeks.
No sugar, no carbs, sweat clothes, lots of running and even more vegetables. It paid off! After 14 hours (straight, please) of fading, Kim Kardashian is ready for the Met Gala. She is only going to wear the dress on the red carpet and will don a replica directly at the top of the steps. But she is proud of her look and she says it loud and clear.
If some people did not want her to wear the dress of an icon like Marilyn Monroe, others are outraged by her drastic diet. There are health professionals who say that losing more than a kilo a week is not very healthy, and there are Internet users who think that talking so freely about intense weight loss for aesthetic purposes can trivialize eating disorders. And maybe give bad ideas to the people who follow you.
Riverdale actress Lili Reinhart called Kim K's behavior "stupid and harmful." She even asked her fans to stop giving strength to celebrities whose image and career is only related to their body and their appearance (there must be a hell of a list).
The debate continues to inflame the networks, but some people come to the defense of Kim K and find the attacks on his regime a little hypocritical. According to them, many people – including actors – go on drastic and express diets for this or that occasion and do not receive the same hatred.
lili reinhart, thank you. pic.twitter.com/8ARMOtSv7D
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