Kim Kardashian returned to the Met Gala dripping in pearls from head to toe
- Kim Kardashian attended the 2023 Met Gala on Monday.
- She wore a Schiaparelli gown was that dripping in pearls.
Kim Kardashian arrived at the 2023 Met Gala literally dripping in pearls.
The reality TV icon sported a taupe Schiaparelli gown that was covered in pearls from head to toe. Kardashian told Vogue that the pearls were a tribute to the iconic late designer Karl Lagerfeld, whose fashion legacy was celebrated on Monday night.
"This year I just wanted to feel glamorous. I really didn't feel the pressure," Kardashian told Vogue on the red carpet, adding that her eldest daughter, North West, was in the car watching her family walk the red carpet.
In a separate interview with her younger sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Kardashian said it was an "emotional" night celebrating Lagerfeld, who she noted did her first-ever fashion shoot.
"I owe a lot to him and what he did for me," Kendall added. "I started working with him when I was really young and really new."
Kardashian's look on Monday night was far less controversial than her 2022 Met Gala outfit.
Kardashian borrowed the Jean Louis dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy in 1962, taking her then-boyfriend Pete Davidson as her date.
The "Kardashians" star and Skims mogul's Met Gala fashion has evolved drastically over the years.
The floral Riccardo Tisci gown she wore to her first Met Gala in 2013 when she was Kanye West's plus one was widely criticized. "I was crying, like, the whole way home because I just couldn't believe it," Kardashian told Vogue in 2019.
But by 2019, she earned her spot on Met Gala best-dressed lists when she arrived in a Thierry Mugler dress covered in crystals.
Kardashian has also become famous for the drastic lengths she goes to for her Met Gala looks.
For her 2019 dress, Kardashian took corset lessons and revealed she was willing to urinate on herself to fit into the skin-tight dress, and she lost 16 pounds in three weeks to wear Monroe's gown before the 2022 Met Gala.