Turns Out Kim Kardashian’s Gray Cardigan from the Met Gala Has Its Own Elaborate Backstory

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published 7 May 2024

If you were left scratching your head over Kim Kardashian’s sweater coverup worn over her Maison Margiela Couture corseted dress she wore to last night’s Met Gala—you’re not alone. So much fuss has been made, apparently, that Kardashian is explaining the simple gray sweater, giving Vogue the backstory behind it and how it played into the Met’s theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”

Kardashian kept wrapping the gray cardigan around her body on the red carpet, and said, intriguingly, the ensemble was meant to represent “the wildest night of my life in a garden” where she ran out and grabbed her “boyfriend’s sweater and threw it on and had to get to work,” she said. “And my hair’s all messed up.”

With that in mind, Kardashian continued the narrative in her beauty choices, from beachy waves to glowing skin to hints of silver eyeshadow “to pull the whole look together,” People reports.

Kardashian and her sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner and her mother Kris Jenner (along with her longtime boyfriend, Corey Gamble) made the Met a family affair last night. Speaking with Vogue on the red carpet, Kardashian said she was most looking forward to seeing her sisters inside the event: “We all get nervous no matter how many times we’ve been,” Kardashian said. “It’s like ‘Mom, where are you? Sisters, let’s meet at the top.’”

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Rachel Burchfield is a writer, editor, and podcaster whose primary interests are fashion and beauty, society and culture, and, most especially, the British Royal Family and other royal families around the world. She serves as Marie Claire’s Senior Celebrity and Royals Editor and has also contributed to publications like Allure, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, People, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and W, among others. Before taking on her current role with Marie Claire, Rachel served as its Weekend Editor and later Royals Editor. She is the cohost of Podcast Royal, a show that was named a top five royal podcast by The New York Times. A voracious reader and lover of books, Rachel also hosts I’d Rather Be Reading, which spotlights the best current nonfiction books hitting the market and interviews the authors of them. Rachel frequently appears as a media commentator, and she or her work has appeared on outlets like NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, and more.

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