Marilyn Monroe's dress How much should Kim Kardashian pay for damage to the garment?
Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress suffered damage considered "irreparable" after being used by socialite Kim Kardashian.
Marilyn Monroe's dress continues to be in the public eye
after being used by Kim Kardashian on May 2 to attend the Met Gala 2022.
Although she wore it for a short time, she left irreparable damage to the
garment, which could demand payment. But how much should Kim Kardashian pay
for damaging one of the most iconic dresses in human history?
Marilyn
Monroe's dress has great historical significance, because with it she
attended a destination event for President John F. Kennedy in 1962 and sang
the song Happy Birthday Mr. President.
Kim Kardashian did not miss the opportunity and for the
Met Gala 2022 she wanted to wear the Marilyn Monroe dress. Although she did
not use it during the entire event and only wore it during the red carpet,
she caused severe damage to it that will be impossible for them to repair,
in addition to the fact that she risks having to pay for it.
How much will Kim Kardashian have to pay for the damage she caused to
the Monroe dress?
Thanks to the great historical value of Marilyn Monroe's dress,
it was in several important international auctions. According to TMZ, the
garment was designed in 1962 by Frenchman Jean-Louis; back then it cost
$12,000, which is now equivalent to $114,000.
In 1999, it entered an auction for the first time by the famous
house specialized in this type of sales, Christie's; on that occasion it was
sold for a million dollars with the justification that it was Marilyn
Monroe's estate.
However, in 2016 it entered another auction and on that
occasion, the dress was acquired by the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum
for an amount of 4.8 million dollars. This is because time continued to
advance and the dress did not stop looking like the first time.
Finally, the staff of this museum lent the Marilyn Monroe dress
to Kim Kardashian and the fact that the socialite used it in an important
event caused the value of the garment to increase to 10 million
dollars.
After all this necessary context, fashion insiders and art
collectors have claimed that Kim Kardashian will have to pay more than $10
million to pay for the damage she caused to her dress. It is mentioned that
the price must also be paid by the museum, since they were responsible for
lending it.
Marilyn Monroe's dress is considered one of the most expensive
in the world, it was designed just to her measurements in order to make it
look like a second skin with which she could highlight each of her
curves.
It has also been explained that it is difficult to repair the
damage caused, since it is made with fabric that cannot currently be found.
Collector Scott Fortner reaffirmed that the damage is irreparable.
