"She was very clear on wanting a breastplate, very clear on the car body finish. And I think she was nervous really. She understands the competition. She also found out from Anna Wintour that five other people were wearing breastplates, including her half-sisters, Kylie and Kendall Jenner. Soft armour and pert nipples might have been the themes of the night, but for someone that famous, says Whitaker, it's still a risky proposition to wear it."
"One of the few celebrities to straightforwardly interpret the fashion is art dress code which focused on how the dressed and undressed human body is the through-line in most works of art she decided to forgo her usual role as a walking billboard for a major fashion house and instead arrived in an orange fibreglass breastplate created by a small east London art duo and a car bodyshop in Kent."
"Good art should start conversation, and Kim did exactly that, says 61-year-old Patrick Whitaker, half of design practice Whitaker Malem, who made the breastplate just weeks before the gala. Speaking at the home he shares with his partner, Keir Malem, 60 a converted felt-roof shed the duo are still recovering from watching the gala live. We went to bed at 5am. It's surprisingly tedious, isn't it? A bit Hunger Games, says Whitaker."
"The breastplate was a three-way collaboration between the pair, the British pop artist Allen Jones and the visual artist Nadia Lee Cohen (a frequent collaborator of Kardashian). On the night, Kardashian attended the gala with Jones. Jones's fetishistic furniture made from topless women made as a continuing series between the early 80s and 2015 ignited second-wave feminist outrage. Yet it continues to permeate and often influence the fashion industry, from the armoured silhouettes of Thierry Mugler to the Pirelli calendar, and now the steps of the Met Gala."
Kim Kardashian wore an orange fiberglass breastplate at the Met Gala instead of her usual fashion-house branding. The breastplate was made in weeks by an East London design duo working with a car bodyshop in Kent, using a car-body finish. The creators said she was clear about the breastplate and the finish, and that she was nervous because many others planned similar looks, including Kylie and Kendall Jenner. The breastplate was a three-way collaboration involving the duo, British pop artist Allen Jones, and visual artist Nadia Lee Cohen, a frequent collaborator of Kardashian. Kardashian attended the gala with Jones, whose topless-women furniture series has drawn feminist controversy but continues to influence fashion.
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