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Kim Kardashian Shares the Surprising Story Behind Her Couture Met Gala Cardigan
You tin halt sweating implicit Kim Kardashian's 2024 Met Gala sweater now.
The Kardashians prima had the net tangled up successful speculation connected May 6, erstwhile she stepped retired astatine New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art successful a gray cardigan implicit apical her customized Maison Margiela Couture dress for fashion's biggest night. Given however the pullover looked precise casual adjacent to her glamorous gown, which featured a waist-cinching corset and metallic lace skirt, galore onlookers began suspecting that Kim was using the nonfiction of covering to screen up a last-minute wardrobe malfunction. (Click present to spot each personage connected the reddish carpet.)
"Kim Kardashian is decidedly giving had an outfit malfunction and threw connected a sweater," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, portion different idiosyncratic quipped, "Kim's formal had to person breached someway bc there's nary mode that disfigured a-- rag of a sweater was portion of it."
As it turns out, the sweater was a portion of the chic look. Case successful point: Hunter Schafer wore a akin Maison Margiela apical during the Berlinale International Film Festival successful February. At the time, the Euphoria actress paired the cozy-looking cardigan with a dramatic, emerald greenish floor-length skirt featuring bronze fringe designed by the aforesaid manner house.
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And successful a behind-the-scenes look of Kim's Met Gala preparations, a sketch of her dress—which was inspired by John Galliano's 2024 Maison Margiela Artisanal collection—showed that it was meant to beryllium worn with a sweater draped crossed the chest.
"I loved that it was astir corsets and the bodies," Kim told Vogue of the line, which she saw successful idiosyncratic during Paris Fashion Week earlier this year. "It was similar the astir theatrical, beauteous story."
Joking that she had been "stalking" the decorator for years, the SKIMS mogul continued, "It yet conscionable connected, and it was a imagination to get to cognize him."
In keeping with John's vision, Kim besides made definite to airs connected the reddish carpet with her hands entwined wrong the sweater—just arsenic the models connected the runway had done astatine the show.
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"The dress codification is 'The Garden of Time' and when I heard this theme, we benignant of conscionable similar played astir with what we thought this meant," she shared of her Met Gala outfit, explaining however it's expected to evoke what happens aft "having the champion nighttime of your full beingness with your astir magical person."
"You are conscionable successful a garden, you've overslept, you aftermath up," she continued. "My formal is falling disconnected due to the fact that it was 1 of those nights, and I conscionable drawback my boyfriend's sweater to tally disconnected to marque it to wherever I person to be."
Referencing however this year's ball celebrated the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" exhibit, Kim added that she wanted to brace the sweater and formal with "bedhead."
As she jokingly noted, "It's truly the real-life me."
For a breakdown of Kim's look—as good arsenic her past Met Gala outfits—keep reading.
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2024: Breathing Is an "Art Form"
Kim channeled the "Garden of Time" taxable successful a Maison Margiela corseted gown—and arguable "boyfriend" sweater connected top. However, arsenic she told Vogue successful a getting acceptable video, breathing was "an creation form" successful the waist-cinching ensemble, "but I got it."
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2022: Crash Diet to Channel Marilyn Monroe
On the archetypal Monday of May successful 2022, and accompanied by then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, Kim walked the Met Gala reddish carpet successful the golden gown Marilyn Monroe famously wore portion singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy successful 1962. Since the formal was a portion of American past and could not beryllium altered, Kim said she lost 16 pounds successful 3 weeks successful bid to acceptable successful it.
"I would deterioration a sauna suit doubly a day, tally connected the treadmill, wholly chopped retired each sweetener and each carbs, and conscionable devour the cleanest veggies and protein," she told Vogue. "I didn't starve myself, but I was truthful strict."
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2022: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
In bid to channel Marilyn Monroe for the 2022 Met Gala, Kim spent 10 hours earlier the reddish carpet lawsuit bleaching her trademark brunette hair. In a YouTube video shared by Kylie Jenner, Kim quipped of the lengthy dye job, "I'll hazard getting my hairsbreadth to autumn out."
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2021: Call Me, Maybe?
Not lone did Kim's her Balenciaga ensemble made it hard for Met Gala chairwoman Anna Wintour to recognize her during the 2021 lawsuit (the 2020 Met Gala was canceled amid the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic), but the head-to-toe look besides prevented the Keeping Up With the Kardashians prima from jotting down aboriginal [ex-]boyfriend Pete Davidson phone number.
"I saw him astatine the Met and helium knew I was hosting SNL but it wasn't announced yet. He came up to maine and we were talking about SNL," she recalled of their brushwood during an occurrence of Dear Media's Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. "I had gloves connected and I couldn't get into my phone."
Fortunately, the mates reconnected during Kim's SNL quality and the remainder was history.
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2019: Corset Chaos
To execute the look of a ace snatched waist successful her Thierry Mugler formal astatine the 2019 Met Gala, themed "Camp: Notes connected Fashion," Kim wore a constricting corset by Mr Pearl that made it hard for her to move. Despite taking "breathing lessons" from the decorator to guarantee that she tin respire portion wearing the undergarment, the ultra-cinched ensemble restricted her from sitting, forcing Kim to, um, opt retired of utilizing the bath erstwhile she had it on.
"If it's an emergency, I deliberation I pee my pants and past person my sister hitch my limb up," she said portion preparing for the event, arsenic shown connected Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "I'm not adjacent joking. She tin hitch my limb up."
Kim besides said the beads connected her gown, which hung disconnected the cloth to marque it look similar she had conscionable climbed retired of the ocean, poked her from the inside. She quipped, "It's a cactus."
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2018: Stuck connected You
Although Kim radiated successful golden connected the red carpet successful 2018, her Versace gown proved to much troublesome erstwhile she got wrong the Met. In a video shared to her societal media account, Kim said the sequins connected her formal kept getting caught connected different people's clothes—particularly the tulle skirt of chap guest SZA.
"When your formal is connected to this beauty," she quipped successful the clip, showing their downs entwined unneurotic arsenic assistants tried to untangle the knotted chaos. "We're stuck together!"
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2016: No Sleep Till Manhattan
You could accidental that Kim didn't get overmuch quality beauty remainder earlier the 2016 gala. After all, the world prima antecedently explained, she met up with Balmain decorator Olivier Rousteing once she flew into New York astatine 1 a.m. for a fitting, wherever they "literally chopped skirts successful half, created tops from dresses, and stayed up until 4 a.m. to get the cleanable enactment that we felt acceptable the theme."
The effect was a effect was a futuristic metallic gown that paired perfectly with the taxable of "Manus × Machina: Fashion successful an Age of Technology."
Kim added, "The process of getting acceptable for an lawsuit similar this is intense; it truly takes a village."
The SKIMS mogul aboriginal called bleaching her eyebrows for the look a "big mistake."
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2015: Hiding a Pregnancy
Kim was successful the archetypal trimester of her gestation with her and ex Kanye West's 2nd child, son Saint West, erstwhile the then-couple attended the 2015 Met Gala. She yet concealed her babe bump successful a sparkling, semi-sheer Roberto Cavali gown. She wrote connected her app aft the event, "I was trying to fell it."
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2014: Wardrobe Malfunction
Before Kim had adjacent stepped onto the reddish carpet astatine the 2014 Met Gala, her look was already causing immoderate drama. Not lone did Kim suffer a wardrobe malfunction in the high-slit Lanvin gown portion connected her mode to the Met, but the chunky loop and leather cuffs she primitively wore with the formal were "a spot excessively stone 'n' roll" for her taste.
To marque definite she was camera-ready, Kim ditched the accessories successful the car and swapped them for a cleanable achromatic satin belt.
Don't miss E!'s Live From E!: 2024 Met Gala reddish carpet Monday, May 6, starting astatine 6 p.m. for each must-see infinitesimal from fashion's biggest night. And tune successful to E! News Tuesday, May 7, astatine 11 p.m. for a afloat recap of each jaw-dropping look and each the behind-the-scenes moments.
