Do Not Tell Kim Kardashian About This

At this point, there is no slice of history (nor soul) that Kim Kardashian will not buy into. In 2011, she acquired £65,000 worth of Elizabeth Taylor’s bracelets.

In 2020, she came across a set of £15,000 rings once owned by Elvis Presley. In 2023, she bought the Attallah Cross – an amethyst pendant worn on various occasions by Princess Diana – for £163,800.

And there was the genius decision to arrive at the 2022 Met Gala in a £4.8 million dress worn by Marilyn Monroe. A dress that inspired the International Council of Museums to launch a clothing preservation committee.

But such is the access that someone is afforded when their net worth surpᴀsses a billion dollars. I imagine Julien’s might have designed their latest auction – тιтled Icons: Playboy, Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe – with the specific intention of eliciting a cash injection from Kardashian.

Slated to take place on 28 March in Beverly Hills, the sale includes an aqueous, feather-trimmed gown from Monroe’s 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. It is expected to garner between £100,000 and £200,000, which translates to about £10 in Kardashian Koin.

See also: a lilac corset – “sensuously boned to perfection, adorned with a décolletage neckline” – which is estimated to go for £20,000 to £40,000.

But Kim Kardashian – a woman who launched her career on the cover of Playboy magazine in 2007 – might feel a closer connection to the arcana that once belonged to Hugh Hefner.

The publishing magnate was, after all, laid to rest in a tomb next to Monroe’s in 2017, which somehow feels quite Kardashian. Among the items linked to Hefner is a classic smoking jacket, silk pyjamas and slippers.

All this is to say: perhaps Kim will emerge at the Met Gala – which is duly themed “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” – later this year in a velvet, bon vivant robe with a pipe dangling from her lips.