Kim Kardashian didn't injury Marilyn Monroe's costume, in line with museum

Ripley's Consider It Or Not!, the corporate which owns Monroe's costume and lent it to Kardashian for the Might occasion, mentioned in an announcement Thursday that regardless of claims in any other case, Kardashian "didn't, in any manner, injury the garment within the brief period of time it was worn on the Met Gala."

Amanda Joiner, Ripley's VP of publishing and licensing, accompanied the costume because it was transported from Florida to New York and likewise whereas Kardashian was sporting it. She acknowledged the robe remained the identical "from the underside of the Met steps, the place Kim received into the costume, to the highest the place it was returned."

Ripley's acknowledged the costume was barely broken on the time the corporate acquired it by way of public sale in 2016, with "plenty of the seams pulled and worn'' and "puckering on the again by the hooks and eyes."

Monroe made the costume well-known when she dressed within the robe to sing "Joyful Birthday" to President Kennedy in 1962. Kardashian solely wore the costume for pink carpet photographs earlier than she become a reproduction she had made for the for the remainder of the occasion.

The robe is now on exhibit at Ripley's Consider It or Not! Hollywood by way of the autumn.