Kim Kardashian is still getting booed for wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the Met gala

Kim Kardashian borrowed Marilyn Monroe’s dress for the 2022 Met Gala. Getty Images

It may be Kim Kardashian’s biggest fashion faux pas ever.

The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star and Skims founder is still catching heat for wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the Met Gala in 2022. This time it’s coming from Bob Mackie, the designer who sketched the iconic dress Monroe wore to serenade President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

Marilyn Monroe wore the Jean Louis gown when she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1962. Bettmann Archive

Mackie recently screened his new documentary, “Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion” at the 92NY, followed by an interview with famed fashion insider Fern Mallis for her Fashion Icons series. When Mallis asked him about Kardashian wearing the gown he sketched for Jean Louis, “he hesitated and asked the audience to respond… if they thought it was ok,” a source told Page Six.

Costume designer Bob Mackie told Fern Mallis it was wrong for Kardashian to wear the dress. Paul Zimmerman/Shutterstock

The response was a “resounding loud house of boos” from the crowd, we’re told. “Bob shrugged and said, ‘Wrong is wrong!’.”

Mackie sketched the dress when he was 22. ZUMAPRESS.com

This isn’t the first time Mackie, 84, has ripped into Kardashian over her decision to borrow the dress from  Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!. He previously told Entertainment Weekly, “it was a big mistake,” for the reality star to wear the dress.

Kardashian lost 16 pounds in three weeks to fit into the dress. Getty Images for The Met Museum/

“[Marilyn] was a goddess. A crazy goddess, but a goddess. She was just fabulous. Nobody photographs like that. And it was done for her. It was designed for her. Nobody else should be seen in that dress,” he said.

Mackie brought Bernadette Peters as his date to the 92NY talk with Mallis. Getty Images

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