Marilyn Monroe's dress is missing crystals after Kim K wore it

[Borisapillar 9,190]

9 minutes ago, RenegAde said:

Not the fake outrage over some dress again.

Some of us respect historical artifacts and art pieces and don't want them mishandled or destroyed. This is an iconic piece of pop culture and American history. It cannot be reproduced or recreated.

[OutsideWoodys 131]

People need to LET IT GO

[CyanDante 6,076]

27 minutes ago, Chesescake said:

Let me smile and add some spice 

 

I mean that is how they populated their museums. 

[jeremiahsaint1000 487]

kim being famous and a billionaire really makes me mad, ppl used to be required to be talented to gain that kind of fame. 

the kardashians' relevancy has really proven how stupid our world has become, we just reward ppl for doing the bare minimum

[Levine 23,591]

43 minutes ago, Phantomhive said:

Marilyn coming back from the dead to confront Kim about her dress:

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhahsiuwqokaswpakosowposwieker

[Galvon 1,868]

The fabric looks stretched 

[StrawberryBlond 14,881]

As a defender of Kim in this situation, this doesn't look good now. But I will say that those kinda crystals are always fragile. So fragile, even the museum worker wearing gloves could cause one to fall off when handling the dress for any reason. I've worn stuff with these kinda crystals and I'm always careful and still occasional ones will fall off or snag. Nothing lasts forever. As long as the majority of them stay on, only people with a eagle eye microscope on it are going to notice, as was evident. People need to move on. What's done is done, there's no way to take it back. At the very least, maybe this will serve as the lesson never to do it again...which extends the legacy of the dress, don't you think? Marilyn wears this iconic dress, Kim rents it out decades later and ruins it slightly causing mass outrage and then no one was ever allowed to lease out garments from museums ever again? Just trying to provide a silver lining for anyone still angry.

49 minutes ago, Chesescake said:

Let me smile and add some spice 

 

Holy moly, why didn't this hit the press at the time?! This is far worse. Marilyn's dress was was taken and preserved by a museum after she died, this choker was flat-out stolen and never returned! I thought that priceless royal jewels were kept under lock and key and never allowed out of their cases? Even the ones acquired nefariously? How the hell did a social media influencer get granted access to this?! Even royalty don't wear it! No shade but I'd never heard of Emma before the Met, what kind of connections does she have to allow her to do this? When people talk about how things now have "undertones of colonialism," this is what they should be talking about!

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1 hour ago, RenegAde said:

Not the fake outrage over some dress again.

Yet if it was Gaga you'd be outraged

[PunkTheFunk 124,469]

I called this when I said the dress would be damaged after she wore it.

[elijahfan 26,305]

I do kinda question the lighting and resolution that's vastly different between the 2 pictures, probably making the after image seem much worse than it actually is. We also don't know when the before picture was taken, and the crystals could have fallen through some past manipulation of the dress that had nothing to do with Kardashian. But yeah it was always bound to get some amount of damage by the mere fact of being manipulated. Only conservators and people who really knew the exact condition of the dress before the MET Gala can really say anything about this.

[RAMROD 109,680]

Who wanna bet that family picked it apart as some kind of souvenirs/memento 

[Gaby15 13,554]

I blame mostly the dress handlers, the hanging and missing crystals should have been fixed/replaced. They are not professionals.

[magichat 519]

I don’t really get the big deal. I am no fan of Kim but it’s some old dress. Like so what?

[elijahfan 26,305]

45 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Holy moly, why didn't this hit the press at the time?! This is far worse. Marilyn's dress was was taken and preserved by a museum after she died, this choker was flat-out stolen and never returned! I thought that priceless royal jewels were kept under lock and key and never allowed out of their cases? Even the ones acquired nefariously? How the hell did a social media influencer get granted access to this?! Even royalty don't wear it! No shade but I'd never heard of Emma before the Met, what kind of connections does she have to allow her to do this? When people talk about how things now have "undertones of colonialism," this is what they should be talking about!

The necklace disappeared from India in the late 40s and resurfaced in England in 1998, when it was acquired by Cartier. Emma being an ambassador for the brand, they submitted to her a couple of jewels for her to potentially wear at the MET, and that's the one she chose.

Technically, Cartier didn't acquire the necklace illegally and it's obvious Emma had no idea of its history. But yeah, it's all part of the debate of brands or museums who legally acquired stolen pieces, like... who's fault is it?

 

[elijahfan 26,305]

9 minutes ago, Gaby15 said:

I blame mostly the dress handlers, the hanging and missing crystals should have been fixed/replaced. They are not professionals.

I mean, I'm not that familiar with this particular museum, but it seems like Ripley's Believe It or Not! features a little bit of everything, so textile conservation might not be their forte. It sounds more like a theme park than an actual museum tbh.