Is 2024's Met Gala Theme A Diss At Kim Kardashian?

The Met Gala is one of the biggest fashion moments of the year and always gets people talking about who is there with whom and who is wearing what. However, 2022’s event was filled with one person: Kim Kardashian. The reality star and businesswoman is no stranger to the Met Gala, but her choice to wear Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Happy Birthday dress didn’t go down well.

Next year’s theme has already been announced, and it might be two years on from the star wearing the gown on the red carpet, but people haven’t forgotten about the controversial choice just yet. In fact, some have found themselves asking the same question: is 2024’s Met Gala theme a diss at Kim Kardashian?

2024’s Met Gala theme is officially Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

The Met Gala is more than a fashionable event for the biggest names in the industry. It’s actually an annual event to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institution, with each year bringing a new theme to life. This year, it was ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,’ but 2024’s Met Gala theme has finally been announced: ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.’ No, this doesn’t mean we’re going to see a red carpet filled with Disney princesses, as Vogue states the theme references a collection of around 50 “historically significant and aesthetically beautiful pieces” that are thought to be so fragile that they can never be worn again.

Celebs are likely to recreate some delicate historical gowns

It turns out the exhibit was inspired by a Charles Frederick Worth silk gown from 1877, and it wasn’t long before Vogue ran a piece talking about delicate dresses from the likes of Christian Dior and Alexander McQueen in a build-up to 2024’s Met Gala. With all of that in mind, there’s a good chance our favorite designers and celebrities are most likely going to recreate many of these pieces to wear for the big night, which is where the controversies start. After all, Kim Kardashian didn’t entirely recreate a gown for her 2022 Met Gala appearance.

The theme follows Kim Kardashian’s controversial 2022 Met Gala gown

In 2022, Kim Kardashian turned heads for all the wrong reasons when she stepped onto the red carpet at the Met Gala wearing Marilyn Monroe’s iconic gown she wore when singing ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ to John F. Kennedy back in 1962. It’s believed to be the most expensive dress in the world, selling for $4.8 million. In fact, it’s so historically important and valuable that the dress is actually kept in a temperature-controlled and darkened vault at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum in Florida. However, that didn’t stop Kim from loaning the gown from the museum for the night. While she didn’t wear it for the entire evening, Kim did change into the dress at the bottom of the red carpet and immediately changed out of it once she reached the top of the steps, wearing a replica for the rest of the night.

The controversies got worse and worse as time went on

Seeing as the Marilyn Monroe gown is such a prominent part of history, it might be little surprise that so many people were outraged when Kim Kardashian wore the dress for the night. To start, Kim admitted to losing a huge amount of weight in the weeks before the Met Gala in 2022 just so she could fit into the dress. Then came the reports following the event, claiming Kim had damaged the famous piece. According to some reports, rhinestones were missing, the clamps now have damage, and the seam around the zip appears to be strained. A video released by Ripley’s even showed how Kim almost couldn’t wear the dress to begin with as it wouldn’t zip up over her behind.

People have accused the Met Gala of dissing Kim Kardashian with 2024’s theme

Fans across the world were less than impressed with Kim Kardashian’s choice of gown for the 2022 Met Gala, with many calling for celebrities to be banned from wearing iconic outfits moving forward. However, one thing people can’t help but wonder is if 2024’s Met Gala theme is a diss as Kim. After all, the event is going to be all about historic garments, with many stars likely to recreate the look - something that she didn’t do for the night. While the Met Gala hasn’t officially encouraged people to make replicas instead of using authentic historical pieces just yet, it seems pretty certain that’s what they’re leaning toward.

Is 2024’s Met Gala theme a diss at Kim Kardashian? It might be, but with no official confirmation, it could just be people putting two and two together and coming up with their own answers.