Kim Kardashian had a number of Marilyn moments on the 2022 Met Gala.
After strolling Monday’s crimson carpet within the iconic Jean Louis gown Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Joyful Birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy in 1962, the Skims founder slipped right into a second memorable look of the display star’s again at her lodge.
“To prime off my evening after The Met, I had the dignity of becoming Marilyn Monroe’s Norman Norell gown that she wore to the Golden Globes in 1962 —the place she obtained the Henrietta Award For World Movie Favourite,” Kardashian, 41, captioned images of herself within the glittering inexperienced garment Friday.
“In my quest to seek out the Jean Louis hand beaded gown that I wore to the gala, I found @heritageauctions owned Marilyn’s iconic inexperienced sequined robe.”
Extra coincidental nonetheless, Kardashian’s florist, Jeff Leatham, occurred to have acquired Monroe’s Golden Globe award from that very evening, making for an ideal accent for the style mogul.
“I noticed this all as an indication the best way that the entire stars aligned. It can perpetually be one of many biggest privileges of my life to have the ability to channel my internal Marilyn on this means, on such a particular evening,” she concluded her caption, thanking Julien’s Auctions and Leatham for “serving to to make this reminiscence doable.”
Prior to creating headlines together with her first Monroe look on the carpet — and becoming a reproduction after ascending the Met steps to keep away from damaging the priceless museum piece — Kardashian revealed to Vogue that she additionally had a duplicate of the blond bombshell’s Globes robe in her possession.
“I feel I’d simply put on that one to eat pizza in my lodge room,” she quipped.
Clearly, Kardashian stored her phrase.
