Over the weekend, the Academy Museum held their now-annual gala. It’s become a sort of informal “start” to the Oscar season, as many awards-season hopefuls show up and wear couture. Of course, it’s a big LA event, so run-of-the-mill famewhores show up as well. Speaking of, Kim Kardashian came out. You might have missed her because she wore a beige bag over her head. Kim’s look at the gala was by Maison Margiela, one of her favorites and one of Kanye West’s favorites too. This is not the first time Kim has covered her face/head for a big event – she did something similar at the Met Gala one year (2021) because Demna told her to.
Beyond the absurdity of the face covering, the dress is GHASTLY. Like… crazy unflattering, a completely disjointed aesthetic, and it absolutely looks like something Kanye would make his current wife wear. Halloween came early!
More photos from the gala – I wish the Academy Museum would allow more photographers into this event, because I’d love to cover the fashion more thoroughly. I’m including photos of Demi Moore (in Prada), Selena Gomez (in Armani), Sydney Sweeney (Armani), Hailey Bieber (horrible Schiaparelli), Greta Lee (Dior), Rose Byrne (one of my favorite looks of the event, in Celine).
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Kim has 4 breasts now?
I’m so confused by that!
Yeah that bit looks plain awful!
Painful.
I’m really struggling to make sense of the quad tits. It even looks like the lower “boobs” have nipples! WTF is going on? Honestly, it’s so bad that it almost comes back around to being impressive. I mean, it must require a concerted effort for a professional designer with years of education, training, and experience to create something so universally unflattering.
I can’t decide if it’s fitting that badly or was a deliberate decision. Either way, the designer is… yikes. Not a good result for them.
Seriously, my first thought was – she’s “enhanced” all the other parts of her body, might as well tack on 2 extra boobs.
Thanks for putting a name to that atrocious design. Who thought quad tits was an attractive element? The whole thing is a mess, but those saggy boobs were the worst.
That designer must really hate women.
It looks like one of Katy Perry’s horrible tour costume
Thanks for the mammaries.
🤣🤣🤣😝
LOL
I love love LOVE Maison Margiela, so — in their defense — I have to say that this dress is not fitted properly. Obviously. If you look at the original collection, that dress does not have the appearance of four boobs. It’s a beautiful collection (although a real person would not ACTUALLY wear the masks of course, sheesh). Someone did the corseting wrong here.
FYI, you’re right (as you know)–I couldn’t understand how even properly tailored the dress would make sense, so I looked it up…and…yes…it’s meant to look fitted but LOOSER. And it looks lovely, properly tailored.
The original was a sheer top without the underwire and corseting, but Kim can’t resist the wasp waist.
I immediately saw Admiral Ackbar (“It’s a trap!) in the shape.
I am going to say something one day I will regret.
I kind of like it.
I mean Kim got what she wanted which was attention. The dress makes her look like she has double breasts.
Double breasts is better than what I was thinking. I was thinking the bottom layer was flab.
Same! I mean, I know it’s just an awful design, but why would anyone want a design that makes them look flabby? KK might be a billionaire who gets all the attention, but honestly I doubt she ever has any fun. When I go to a party, I like to dance and breathe.
Kim’s face covering reminds me of something you’d see in the Dada movement in art, and as such does not bother me.
It reminds me of Magritte’s lovers.
And some of De Chirico mannequin.
Is this her nod to Ye’s hideous “fashion”? Doesn’t he wear this kind of thing to completely cover his face and calls it fashion? Four boobs now is fashion?
all the way down to the hideous color — for someone who has divorced him, she stays oddly in the style orbit — I’ve seen her cosplay the new wife too often for it to be an accident.
+1. She has the money to do and wear anything. I don’t understand why “unflattering, faceless, and puzzling” is still where she’s gravitating.
The dress on the runway looks different/ better because the model is taller and the “underboobs” dont look like extas, just more stretched so it looks like a swag/ embellishment. I dont know if the designer would be mad at how bad this looked here or thrilled about the attention.
Just proves the point that everything is NOT for every body!
Love Greta Lee’s look.
Selena Gomez looked fantastic. Also, cover Elle Fanning! She wore one of my favorite looks from the new Balenciaga collection and her make-up was perfect.
Selena looks regal and old style Hollywood – the fact that she is proudly wearing her happiness doesn’t hurt and Benny was casually killing it too.
Totally agree – they lit it up!!
You know what looks good on Selena? Happiness. She’s in love and starring in a brilliant show with two of the best comedians of all time. (I guess not everyone needs to wear a net over their face to have a good time.)
That’s a great comment. Agree.
Rose, Demi and Greta looked great. I really didn’t like what Hailey wore either. That under boob part on Kim’s dress looks like ribs popping out.
Demi looks amazing! My favorite look of the night.
Something about a woman covering her entire head and face (eyes included) to go out in public is making me very uncomfortable. Maybe that’s the point, idk.
Selena looks lovely and happy.
AGREED! This is not the time to turn women into faceless mannequins.
To be fair, Maison Margiela was doing the masks on all of their models — men and women — so the effect was different. Kim took it out of context and did not style this properly at all.
I can see the point of daring fashion, and if it’s not specifically misogynist, even better. It’s just that I follow celebs because I enjoy dreaming about a glamorous life. KK never gives me that thrill. I don’t think she’s ever had a minute of fun in her whole life. Selena, meanwhile, hasn’t always had it easy, but dayum does she seem like she’s on top of the world. Get it grrrl!
Is Kim auditioning to be Kanye’s next wife?
Lol her best look yet.
Demi moore’s getting too much work! She could naturally age and probably still look amazing!
I really love that dress and color on Demi.
I don’t know why Kim has 4 boobs and is wrapped up like a mummy.
Sydney has shown us who she is – I am not a fan. That said, this is the best I’ve seen her look- the darker hair, makeup and dress are all very flattering.
I do not understand the quad boob or face gauze on Kim or the hip pads that are half exposed and that ugly on every level dress on Hailey. Why?
Rose and Greta are stunning. Selena looks beautiful and happy- and Bennys loafers are hilarious, love them.
Lots of other great dresses/outfits from this event. Almost seems a waste with the lack of coverage.
I do love the necklace though!
So I guess Kanye *wasn’t* the reason for all her terrible fashion during that marriage.
To be honest, I think what she’s wearing is brilliant. An incredibly powerful symbol. Symbols don’t necessarily have to be fashionable and aesthetically perfect, they just have to be convincing. It convinced me.
Sincere question — what did it convince you of? What do you see this as a symbol of?
https://youtu.be/TAsQh7-VYbc?si=S39BrFVnVv4jvUpl
I searched and found a good summary. For me, the message is: don’t look at who it is, but at what it is and how it’s made. In a figurative sense, I think that’s an important message in today’s world. Margiela was a deconstructionist, an anti-establishment type, if you will, and someone who rejected the usual hierarchies. Question everything, but as a statement, as a counterpoint, not as an ideology.
Rose Byrne’s look was my favorite, too. Perfection.
I keep thinking of Mean Girls and :”make fetch happen,” Ah well.
Demi Moore, Selena and Greta look great, the rest are blah.
Across the board hideousness but, in my opinion, Hailey Bieber‘s woodcraft project was the worst.
How can a bag on Kim’s head be a bad thing?
Wow. This is the single most unflattering dress I have ever seen this woman wear. What the hell is up with the bodice? The color is beyond boring and the bag on her head must exist only because that dress is hideous. Demi looks lovely. Whatever that woman’s name is who’s married to Justin B, that dress is awful. Looks cheap. I think Rose Byrne is prettier than that dress, she can wear any color. This year the fashion is a little off, boring and ill fitting seems to be a common theme. Just my 2 cents.
Given how obsessed she is with snatching her waist, I can’t believe Kim K wore something that makes her look like she has a roll of flab beneath her breasts. No wonder she wore the mask.
Rose, Selena and Benny, and Demi on the other hand are wearing fantastic looks.
Let’s Kause a Komotion and make everyone UnKomfortable Kim.
Do you not talk to her through that thing? Does she expect you to look at her while you’re speaking? Can she hear anything? Would it be appropriate to not say anything? Or can you yell-talk to her to make sure she can hear?
Meanwhile in Kanye’s mind: That b**ch still worships me. I’m her muse.
The best I have seen Kim look…said sarcastically
Who does she think she is, Lady Gaga?
Kim = thirsty. Hate it. But actually not as much as Hailey’s hideous look. Hideous. Rose Byrne looked gorgeous: liked Demi, Selena, Greta, and Sydney Sweeney looked beautiful also. I was pleasantly surprised that she looked that nice and had ’em wrapped up.
Aside from the all-encompassing face mask–hideous–that dress makes her look like she’s got two giant globs of fat hanging off her ribcage. The designer hates her!
Kim’s look was atrocious – the style made her rib cage look like fat rolls which isn’t flattering at all. The covered face was also super creepy and the color is also terrible. It’s a traumatizing look.
Demi’s dress was unbelievably gorgeous – the color, style, and of course her gorgeousness.