Kim Kardashian strolled the crimson carpet alongside boyfriend Pete Davidson on the 2022 Met Gala Monday sporting Marilyn Monroe’s well-known costume.
Earlier than the “The Kardashians” star hit the carpet, sleuths throughout social media have been debating the prospect of catching Kardashian within the robe attributable to some not-so-subtle hints she dropped about this yr’s occasion.
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Final month throughout an interview with “Access Hollywood,” she shared that her apparel was nonetheless within the works for style’s largest evening as a result of the match needed to be precise.
“It actually relies upon if I match into my costume, so I hope I’m going,” she stated. “I believe will probably be as much as the final minute as a result of it will possibly’t be tailor-made, so I’ve to suit into it like precisely.”
Solely two weeks later, Kardashian and boyfriend Pete Davidson have been noticed in Orlando, Florida, visiting the Ripley’s Consider It or Not! museum, the place the enduring costume Monroe wore whereas singing “Completely satisfied Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy is saved, based on The Sun.
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There was even a Reddit thread devoted to speculating about what Kardashian would put on, with some suggesting that Monroe’s high-profile costume aligns with this yr’s white-tie “Glided Glamour” costume code.
Monroe’s costume turned well-known after her breathy, seductive tackle “Completely satisfied Birthday” at a fundraiser for Kennedy and the Democratic Nationwide Committee in 1962.
Kardashian is aware of find out how to create some critical buzz along with her earlier Met Gala appears, together with final yr’s extensively memed Balenciaga “shadow” ensemble and her jaw-dropping, barely-there corseted latex dress worn in 2019.
