Museum professionals were fast to condemn Kardashian’s wardrobe alternative as unethical, decrying the dress’s non-public owner, the Los Angeles–based Ripley’s Believe it or Not, for sanctioning the mortgage of such a fragile garment. “Historic clothes should not be worn by anybody, public or non-public figures,” the International Council of Museums stated in a press release. Some critics have been much more incensed, arguing that it violated the museum world’s standards round safeguarding archival garments—and the cultural moments they embody—in trade for the museum’s celebrity-oriented spectacle.
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