Bob Mackie says Kim Kardashian in Marilyn Monroe’s gown ‘a big mistake’

The outfit Kim Kardashian squeezed into for the 2022 Satisfied Gala was a manner faux pas.

That is in accordance to trend designer Bob Mackie, who said the fact Television superstar designed a “big mistake” by sporting the identical robe Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy, Jr. at Madison Sq. Backyard 60 yrs before.

“I imagined it was a large blunder,” the 82-yr-aged designer instructed Entertainment Weekly. “[Marilyn] was a goddess. A mad goddess, but a goddess. She was just magnificent. Nobody images like that. And it was carried out for her. It was intended for her. No one else ought to be noticed in that dress.”

Mackie, recognised for sculpting iconic looks for the likes of Diana Ross, Cher, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli through the top of their occupations, was the 23-year-old apprentice to Oscar-nominated, French designer Jean Louis, who made the shimmering skintight rhinestone gown.

The Tony Award-winning Tv Hall of Famer drew the sketch for the primary gown and mentioned that Louis didn’t know the correct situation the Hollywood bombshell would have on the first layout to.

In the course of the Anna Wintour-helmed, star-studded fund-boosting function for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute earlier this month, Kardashian and the gown manufactured a splashy grand finale on the purple carpet.

With her most up-to-date beau, Pete Davidson, on her arm, the curvy billionairess cautiously walked up the grand staircase of the museum and posed for photographers before reportedly transforming into a duplicate to dress in for the remainder of the festivities.

“I had to eliminate 16 lbs . to be able to in good shape it,” Kardashian confessed to her near buddy La La Anthony, who served as correspondent for Vogue’s livestream of the party. “It was like a position. I was determined to do it.”

Monroe was famously romantically linked to Kennedy and his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy. The “Gentlemen Prefers Blonds” star died mysteriously months later on at age 36.

The flesh-toned robe, which reportedly value $12,000 in 1962, was reportedly acquired by Ripley’s Think It or Not! for extra than $5 million in 2016 – which Forbes considered the “world’s most high priced.”