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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Saman Javed

Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress was a ‘big mistake’, says Bob Mackie

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American fashion designer Bob Mackie has criticised Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum for allowing Kim Kardashian to wear Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Jean-Louis dress to the Met Gala.

The SKIMS mogul made headlines earlier this month when she arrived on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art wearing the same form-fitting nude dress Monroe donned to serenade US President John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday in 1962.

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