I gasped when I saw it - just as the audience did when Marilyn Monroe peeled off her white fur stole at John F Kennedy’s fundraiser in 1962 to reveal the shimmering, sheer, skin-tight gown.
Last night, 6,000 crystals hand sewn on the dress dazzled under photographers' lightbulbs and over Kim Kardashian ’s Skims lingerie.
It was a marketing masterstroke: Kim vacuumed all attention from the heavily styled A-List guests at the Met Gala.