As if it were swinging An extreme corset wasn’t enough, Kim Kardashian also had to tiptoe around Monday’s star-studded Met Gala.
Attractive Fashion At her fitting two days before the soirée, Kardashian, 43, revealed she would be wearing flat high heels under her Maison Margiela dress.
Next, the founder of SKIMS explained the reason for this “intelligent” idea.
“It’s clever because if I had a shoe with a heel, the heel would get caught in the metal skirt,” she told the magazine. “So that was our walking problem.”
She then showed off the pair of modified clear platform heels that she would be ‘balanced’ in throughout the event.
As if rocking an extreme corset wasn’t enough, Kim Kardashian also had to tiptoe around Monday’s star-studded Met Gala.
Inviting Vogue to her fitting two days before the soirée, Kardashian, 43, revealed she would be wearing flat high heels under her Maison Margiela dress.
“So I’m going to have to put these on, and to wear them, you have to be on your toes and balance the whole time, flexing your calf muscles,” Kardashian explained.
I would walk on tiptoe like a professional dancer.
“But I think dancers do it and they probably get a lot of practice,” Kim said, adding that her pre-Met Gala tryout would be her “only practice.”
Kardashian, who is 5-foot-2, was willing to sacrifice comfort because she felt the look needed “height.”
While trying on the shoes, Kim told the cameras: ‘We have to do what we have to do. I can’t lie down and from now on I will be alert.
On Monday night, she wowed viewers as she showed off her impossibly slim waist in John Galliano’s custom silver Maison Margiela number at the annual soirée.
Despite appearing on numerous “best dressed” lists, the mother of four faced widespread concern from social media users, with one person predicting she would “be in the hospital by the end of the night” and another He asked: “How many ribs did they remove?”
“It’s clever because if I had a shoe with a heel, the heel would get caught in the metal skirt,” she told the magazine. ‘So that was our walking problem’
She was wearing a pair of altered clear platform heels.
Kardashian, who is 5-foot-2, was willing to sacrifice comfort because she felt the look needed “height.”
Others fueled the rib removal theory when one said: ‘Did they remove a rib?’ Good sir.’
Another referenced the body transformations the SKIMS founder has undergone at previous Met Galas.
They wrote: ‘Kim Kardashian does it again, I wonder how she breathes with that #MetGala’
They seemed to reference one of Kim’s most iconic looks at the gala when she looked incredibly thin to wear Marilyn Monroe’s classic dress in 2022.
Kim was seen struggling to breathe in her 2024 Met Gala look in a video capturing her preparations for the Vogue soiree.
The video began with Kim taking long, slow exhales as the director asks her, “How’s your breathing going?”
‘It’s an art form. But I understood,’ Kim responded.
Kim previously revealed that she took corset breathing lessons to wear a corseted Thierry Mugler dress for the 2019 Met Gala.
She gushed: ‘I learned a lot about couture from this genius [Thierry Mugler], it was beyond haute couture, it was art! 7 months of manufacturing and assembly in Montreal, Paris and Los Angeles.
‘Corset breathing lessons from none other than Mr. Pearl. It was all worth it!!!’
Kim traveled directly to Europe after the fashion festival as she was scheduled to speak at the 2024 OMR Festival in Hamburg, Germany on May 7-8.
“From there I went to the plane,” explained Kim, who also recently appeared at Tom Brady’s roast at the festival, according to People. ‘I slept on the plane and here I am’
Although Kim hasn’t confirmed whether she underwent a refresher lesson in corset breathing, Pearl previously worked with John Galliano, who designed her outfit for this year’s Met Gala.
Kim traveled directly to Europe after the fashion festival as she was scheduled to speak at the 2024 OMR Festival in Hamburg, Germany on May 7-8.
“From there I went to the plane,” explained Kim, who also recently appeared at Tom Brady’s roast at the festival, according to People. “I slept on the plane and here I am.”
She added that the party wasn’t really for her: ‘It was really nice not to go to all the after parties. It’s not really my thing to go out so it was the perfect excuse, because I really wanted to come here.’
Proving she really can do it all, Kim touched down in Hamburg at 3pm on Tuesday after walking the red carpet around 7pm New York time on Monday night.
Germany is six hours ahead of New York making their two appearances just 13 hours apart. The flight from New York to Hamburg takes about nine hours.