{"id":1506,"date":"2021-09-15T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T17:44:11","slug":"kim-kardashians-cover-up-ditches-fashion-to-make-an-identity-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian\u2019s Cover-Up Ditches Fashion to Make An Identity Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1511\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.beautyforabetterworld.org\/?attachment_id=1511\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kim-K-2048x1486.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no room to be indifferent when it comes to having an opinion about the most talked-about outfit at this year\u2019s Met Gala \u2013 worn by Kim Kardashian \u2013 an all-black, body-concealing Balenciaga ensemble, complete with black face covering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the outfit derived many (and we\u2019re talking many) comments from observers such as bizarre, distasteful, did not fit with the \u2018American fashion\u2019 theme and, was reminiscent of a dementor from the Harry Potter film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Making a statement<\/strong><br>But rather than looking at the outfit purely in fashion terms, what if we looked at the outfit as costume art? The Met Gala, which raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s Costume Institute, was originally known as the Museum of Costume Art. And when you look at Kim K\u2019s outfit from that perspective, you realise the outfit makes more of a statement than anything else on that red carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, while Kanye West was rumoured to have inspired this fetish-esque outfit, the brains behind it is Demna Gvasalia, the creative director of Balenciaga who graduated from the acclaimed Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, He also accompanied Kim on the red carpet in a similar garment, successfully provoking the imagination with his creative body of work, and generating reactions which many artists can only dream about&#8230;even if they are mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Challenging identity<\/strong><br>Of course, the outfit doesn\u2019t initially strike a chord with the American fashion theme at the actual gala. However, if Kim Kardashian was to pose at the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s Costume Institute, she would be making a huge statement in an exhibition which, presents a diverse range of perspectives on how fashion reflects the evolving notions of identity in the US. And what outfit challenges that notion of identity more, than one which covers the whole body and face and yet, everyone still knows who it is? Not many people can pull off that trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is why the outfit stole most of the headlines this year. It has thrown up this idea of identity into the air and got people wondering; \u201cHow can we follow that?\u201d The bar has been set very high indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no room to be indifferent when it comes to having an opinion about the most talked-about outfit at this year\u2019s Met Gala \u2013 worn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[427,428,426,425],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-balenciaga","tag-demna-gvasalia","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-met-gala"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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