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

The outfit Kim Kardashian squeezed into for the 2022 Met Gala was a fashion faux pas.

Which is in accordance to fashion designer Bob Mackie, who said the actuality Television set celebrity built a “big mistake” by sporting the very same robe Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy, Jr. at Madison Square Backyard 60 years previously.

“I considered it was a big miscalculation,” the 82-12 months-old designer advised Enjoyment Weekly. “[Marilyn] was a goddess. A outrageous goddess, but a goddess. She was just wonderful. No person photographs like that. And it was completed for her. It was designed for her. No one else should be seen in that gown.”

Mackie, acknowledged for sculpting iconic seems to be for the likes of Diana Ross, Cher, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli during the height of their careers, was the 23-12 months-outdated apprentice to Oscar-nominated, French designer Jean Louis, who produced the shimmering skintight rhinestone robe.

The Tony Award-successful Tv Hall of Famer drew the sketch for the original robe and explained that Louis did not know the precise event the Hollywood bombshell would use the unique design and style to.

Throughout the Anna Wintour-helmed, star-studded fund-boosting function for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute previously this month, Kardashian and the gown built a splashy grand finale on the pink carpet.

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

“I had to reduce 16 kilos to be in a position to match it,” Kardashian confessed to her near mate La La Anthony, who served as correspondent for Vogue’s livestream of the event. “It was like a position. I was identified to do it.”

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

The flesh-toned gown, which reportedly expense $12,000 in 1962, was reportedly obtained by Ripley’s Consider It or Not! for far more than $5 million in 2016 – which Forbes deemed the “world’s most costly.”