International designer: Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe dress a ‘fatal mistake’

The famous fashion designer, Bob Mackie, considered that Kim Kardashian made the wrong decision by choosing Marilyn Monroe’s dress at the last Met Gala.

“I thought it was a big mistake, Marilyn Monroe was a goddess, a crazy goddess, but she’s a goddess, just gorgeous,” Mackie, the legendary costume designer responsible for the original 1962 dress, told Entertainment Weekly. For her sake, it was designed for her, no one else should have appeared in this dress.”

“In fact, the dress was not only designed for Monroe, but was actually dyed to perfectly match her skin tone and sewn onto her body prior to her famous ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ performance at Madison Square Garden,” Mackey added.

The late Marilyn Monroe wore the 1962 dress to US President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party and sang Happy Birthday.

Kim Kardashian decided to wear Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress at the Met Gala earlier this month, and she faced a lot of criticism over her choice to wear such a historically significant gown for one night.

Mackie was only 23 years old when he was working as an assistant to fashion designer Jean-Louis who was responsible for actually constructing the dress from silk soufflé, a highly flammable fabric that gives the dress its illusion of nude appearance.

Mackey’s ideas reflect the concerns of some historians who have claimed that even the very act of Kardashian putting the dress on her body was enough to damage his future preservation and structural integrity.

TCM host Alicia Malone said, “There are all issues with the actual preservation of the dress and things like oxygen can affect the dress. It was disconcerting that she was able to wear it. I personally wish she was wearing a replica instead of the same dress.”