Kim Kardashian has been accused of damaging Marilyn Monroe’s iconic gown at Met Gala

According to the Marilyn Monroe Collection, the dress that Kim Kardashian wore to the Met Gala earlier this year is now damaged.  

While she looked phenomenal, reality star Kim raised many eyebrows as she wore Hollywood icon Marilyn’s iconic, glamorous gown to the biggest night in fashion.

In particular, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, who purchased the dress for a whopping $4.8million back in 2016, was criticised for permitting Kimberley to wear the crystal-embellished Jean Louis dress – the same dress that Monroe wore to sing Happy Birthday to JFK in 1962.

And on Sunday 12 June, photographer ChadMichael Morrisette visited the Ripley’s Hollywood location, where he noted the damages to the dress and sent pictures of it to The Marilyn Monroe Collection’s Instagram.

The dress appears to have some damage in the images, with the account stating that there are “missing crystals and some left hanging by a thread”.

Online backlash was immediately directed at Kim and her team for the damages, but The Marilyn Monroe Collection directed the anger at Ripley’s for allowing the dress to be worn on the red carpet.

The account called out Ripley’s in the caption, writing: “So much for keeping ‘the integrity of the dress and the preservation.’ @ripleysbelieveitornot, was it worth it?”

In another post, there was a longer statement, which read: “While another post includes a longer statement: “To anyone who may be questioning the actual condition of Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress prior to being purchased by @ripleysbelieveitornot or implying that low-quality photos of the dress were shared to somehow make the newly discovered damage to the dress seem worse than it actually is.