Take this as the ultimate lesson in “it’s not the dress, it’s how you wear it.”
To start with, the sexiest part of the dress was the nude illusion created with the fabric that matches Marilyn’s skin. Kim is much darker than the dress, and without the nude illusion it’s just a plain sparkly beige dress. Marilyn wore no underwear with the dress, but she didn’t need to because it was clearly custom-fit for her. She looks comfortable and natural. She’s able to move and give the dress some shimmy. Kim had to crash diet to lose 16 pounds, is wearing some industrial-strength support garments there, and she’s STILL packed into the dress like a sausage. There’s no ease, no sensuality, she looks like she’s trying to suck her gut in the whole time.
And then there’s just Marilyn herself. She just oozed with natural sexuality and charisma, it is so easy to see why she was just born to be a star. Nothing about Kim is easy or natural. No matter how much she denies it, she’s clearly gotten some help from plastic surgeons over the years, and she’s clearly worked at her stage presence and making herself interesting. It’s not that she isn’t charismatic or talented in her own right, it’s just that her kind of charisma is vastly different from Marilyn’s, and she’s trying to stuff herself into something that doesn’t fit, both literally and metaphorically.
also
it was WILDLY irresponsible of the museum that owns this dress to let her wear it?
she definitely had on makeup, lotions, perfume, and other substances that would play havoc with a decades-old silk gown. the weight of the beadwork and the stress and pressure of someone moving in the dress would put strain on the fabric. and I’m told she can be seen treading on the hem in red carpet videos
if it’s been decided that the garment is worth preserving, no spoiled heiress should get to endanger it just to play at being an icon
Did you see the gd stripper stilettos she was wearing to compensate for the fact she’s 4 inches shorter than Marilyn? Stilettos she could barely walk in?
I stared at the bottom of the dress the entire time she was on the red carpet positive she was about to punch a hole in the hem, trip and then tear it even further.
Do you have any idea how many vintage formal gowns I have curated with heel holes in the hem/train?
STILETTOS in a museum dress.
It was an abomination!
I was so flippin mad that this happened. She’s wearing a piece of history. And she doesn’t compare in the slightest to Marilyn. There’s just so goddamn much wrong with this, but this post says it much better than I ever could
