celeb news Bob Mackie slams Kim K for wearing Marilyn's dress

[Cloudy]

17 hours ago, yonsé said:

???? if someone ripped up the mona lisa no one would say "its just a piece of canvas, get over it" 

 

art is art. and this dress is a historical piece of art that was worn to an assassinated president's birthday. it's not a costume. 

Exactlt

[Cloudy]

16 hours ago, Kingpin said:

??? Except the dress wasn’t ripped up it is still in tact and will presumably go back to whatever laser protected glass cabinet it was taken from to never see the light of day again and, plus, from what I’ve seen they made sure to treat it as carefully as possible.

 

Tldr Bob there’s people that are dying

They most definitely had to alter it to fit her huge fake butt tho...

[UnusualBoy]

She probably wore it knowing it was gonna cause all this outrage, even if she didn't look good in it (Although being honest it's not even a good dress)

[Johnny Jacobs]

She's a legend.. It's confirmed tbh

 

[SmittenCake]

21 hours ago, Tusk said:

Can’t pass the Bar Exam so.  Life isn’t easy outside of playing dress up.

[1989]

He’s right. And on top of everything else, the dress wasn’t even on theme. 

[bleuwaffle]

20 hours ago, lostcause said:

Rosetta Stone, Who cares? It’s a rock

Magna Carta, who cares? It’s paper

Michelangelo’s David, who cares? It’s also just a rock

Mona Lisa?  Dead Sea scrolls? King tuts sarcophagus? 

No. Don’t be flippant on a forum that is dedicated to honoring an art form. 
 

Art is valuable. It’s our only communication with the past and future. It helps tell the story of human life on earth. Fashion is art, and this dress is meaningful in modern American history. It is not comparable to a defaced Hermes, because Marilyn’s dress holds a layered significance. 
 

Kim is no Ai Weiwei. She wore the piece for the very fact of its myth, so to her it is far more than “just a dress”.

Ai Weiwei broke ancient Han pottery as a commentary on the inherent value of “consumer culture”, and as a critique of the fact that the mao regime purposefully destroyed millennia of artifacts in an attempt to rewrite Chinese culture in his totalitarian image. Historical art is powerful enough to terrify histories most powerful people. That’s because art holds within it a unique and irreplaceable heritage. 
 

Kim wore the dress to fulfill her own monstrous narcissism. She doesn’t care to understand the historical or personal meaning that the garment symbolizes. She doesn’t care that Marilyn is said to have asked nobody else wear the dress because it was the only thing in her life that was hers and hers alone. The souffle used to form the dress was fitted to her exact measurements. To Marilyn, this dress symbolized reclamation. The world felt  ownership of her body, her image, her life. So she had a dress made to hug that body, a dress she alone could wear, proof her body was hers. 
 

Souffle is a fabric that degrades quickly. The garment Kim struggled to fit in is 60 year old textile. No more than a touch will forever alter its integrity, someone ill fitted to it sweating, walking, wearing layers of makeup and tanner, and stepping on the hem decades after it has been preserved is going to damage it. Kim is aloof, self obsessed, careless and stupid enough to think this piece of art was no different from a custom catsuit or a graffitied Hermes. Kim is ignorant and entitled, but worst of all she is callously unable to empathize with the woman she claims to idolize. She excitedly accepted a lock of Marilyn’s hair that was robbed from the film stars fresh corpse. Beyond the inherent creepiness, possessing the hair of a dead Jewish woman is extremely offensive to the faith Marilyn converted to. 
 

I’m tired of people insinuating commodity heritage items, art, and artifacts are shallow or lack value. Art is history, art is culture, art is universal. This dress is more valuable than the ego of a sad hollow rich woman who stands for nothing. Art is more valuable than Kim’s existence.
 

Marilyns Happy birthday dress symbolizes a layered and fraught moment in history, it symbolizes an aspect of society we struggle with to this day. It is a symbol of the civilization James Baldwin once dreamed would lead to something better after collapse. 
Kim Kardashian is a billboard. She is a false idol selling insecurity, faux authenticity, and capitalism. She has created nothing, she has never shared an original thought, she is as faceless and toxic as the dollar she worships.

one of the best posts i've seen on this forum  

[Young Volcanoes]

I agree with him. The dress is probably all ripped and stretched now because of Kim's BBL 

[Grown K]

On 5/17/2022 at 10:47 PM, Tusk said:

Can’t pass the Bar Exam so.  Life isn’t easy outside of playing dress up.

Except she did pass the Bar Exam already.

[lostcause]

On 5/18/2022 at 6:24 PM, Grown K said:

Except she did pass the Bar Exam already.

Except she did not. She passed the baby bar on her second try. That counts as (but is not equivalent to) one year of law school. She can’t even take the bar for three more years. The bar is a whole other ballgame difficultly wise.

[Soda Pop Queen]

I just think it's weird to be wearing the clothes of a public figure that has not only passed on but has been dead for decades now, especially if you have no personal connection to said figure. They probably did some kind of black magic with that dress. 

[XtinaStripped]

Classic case of a celebrity famous for nothing feeling entitled to be able to do something they shouldn't just because they can.

[ElectricFrancis]

I found it extremely offensive that a talentless person like her would wear that legendary piece. 

[BlackStar_93]

Yet another distasteful and shameless stunt by a Kardashian. 

 

Honestly, why the media and general public still enable these people is beyond me. Every time people stream their "reality" show or support yet another of their tired brands it simply fills the pockets of these capitalists.