Reality TV star, Kim Kardashian lost 50 pounds to fit into a dress worn by the Late Marilyn Monroe in 1962 when she sang Happy Birthday to John F Kennedy.
This year’s exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, inspired the gala theme of “gilded glamor”. Kardashian’s interpretation of the theme came from “the most American thing you can think of”. “And that’s Marilyn Monroe,” she told Vogue. “For me, the most Marilyn Monroe moment is when she sang Happy Birthday to JFK, it was that look.”
As well as bleaching her hair platinum blond, Kardashian said she lost 16 pounds (7kg) in less than a month to fit into the dress.
“It was such a challenge,” she said. “It was like a role. I was determined to fit this. I would wear a sauna suit twice a day, run on the treadmill, completely cut out all sugar and all carbs, and just eat the cleanest veggies and protein.”Acquiring the dress was a challenge, too.
The piece sold in 2016 for $US4.8m and holds the record for the most expensive dress sold at auction, as reported by Vogue.
The dress was stored in a temperature-controlled vault at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum in Orlando, Florida. It was transported to Kardashian’s home in Calabasas, California by private plane and accompanied by guards.
News source: The Guardian
