Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala 2023 look sparks comparisons to Playboy cowl

“You’re doing wonderful, sweetie.”

Kim Kardashian dazzled in a pearl-covered Schiaparelli design on the Met Gala 2023 crimson carpet, however followers couldn’t assist however make comparisons to a special gem-adorned second from her previous: her 2007 Playboy cowl.

The shoot, which was famously featured on a Season 1 episode of “Maintaining Up With the Kardashians,” noticed the fact star sporting a sparse few strands of pearls — with nothing else beneath.

Whereas this time round she teamed the high fashion baubles with a corset for the “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence”-themed evening, it didn’t cease followers from seeing double with the 2 seems to be. 

Kim Kardashian posing for Playboy in pearls and heels
The scene prompted Kris Jenner to ship her now-iconic line: “You’re doing wonderful sweetie.”
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Kim Kardashian in a pearl dress at the Met Gala
Kardashian’s Met Gala look featured related pearl strands — plus a corset.
Getty Photographs for The Met Museum/Vogue

“Please inform me I’m not the one one who instantly considered Kim’s playboy shoot…” one TikTok person wrote of the outfit, whereas one other tweeted, “#KimKardashian giving playboy #Metgala.”

“Kim Kardashian actually recreated her Playboy shoot for the met lol lady what,” one other social media person tweeted, whereas a fourth agreed the style “simply seems to be like her Playboy shoot however couture.”


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“Karl who? This 12 months’s theme is definitely ‘Kim: A Lexicon of Style’!” the Food plan Prada Instagram account chimed in with a side-by-side of the 2 seems to be.

Kim Kardashian in a pearl dress on the Met Gala red carpet standing behind Kylie Jenner
Kardashian’s sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner have been additionally in attendance this 12 months.
Getty Photographs for The Met Museum/Vogue

If the reference was intentional, Kardashian didn’t point out her cowl on the crimson carpet, as an alternative telling Vogue, “What’s extra Karl? The enduring Chanel pearls is what I at all times considered so we needed to only be dripping in pearls.”

The star added that a few of the “actual” pearls popped off previous to the carpet, with daughter North West gathering them up.

Fortunately for Kardashian, they didn’t drop into the ocean like her famed diamond earrings.