Kardashian Jenner Controversial Outfits: Fashion Photos

When it comes to making fashion headlines, the Kardashian-Jenner sisters know how to make news. Whether it’s with their red carpet gowns or streetwear, the ladies have picked out some controversial looks over the years.

Kim Kardashian has many highly discussed outfits, but she made some people irate when she wore Marilyn Monroe’s iconic “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” museum-piece dress to the 2022 Met Gala. No one had worn it since the late blonde bombshell, but Kim’s mom Kris Jenner convinced the people at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in Florida to let her daughter wear it after she had her heart set on it.

“They were not gonna let me wear this dress. They weren’t even gonna let me try it on — until Kris Jenner calls,” Kim said in a confessional during a November 2022 episode of The Kardashians.

“I was like, ‘Please, Mom, if you make this happen, I’ll marry you,’” Kim continued. “I would have done anything.”

Being the ultimate negotiator, Kris pulled off the impossible and convinced the museum to loan the SKIMS founder the dress, although she didn’t say how she got her way.

“I cannot tell you my secrets,” Kris said, adding, “But if somebody says no, you know what I say: You’re talking to the wrong person.”

Kim initially didn’t fit into the gown, which was a condition of allowing her to wear it to the Met Gala. She famously lost 16 pounds in three weeks in order to slip into the iconic dress.

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Some fans fumed over Kim being granted use of such a one-of-a-kind gown. Even fashion designer Bob Mackie, who worked as an assistant to the dress’ late designer, Jean Louis, was upset. “I thought it was a big mistake,” Bob told Entertainment Weekly. “[Marilyn] was a goddess. A crazy goddess, but a goddess. She was just fabulous. Nobody photographs like that. And it was done for her. It was designed for her. Nobody else should be seen in that dress.”

Kim isn’t the only one to anger fans with her fashion choices. Kylie Jenner took heat from some animal lovers when she wore a black Schiaparelli dress with a lifelike lion’s head sculpture on it during Paris Fashion Week in January 2023. While she got slammed by some fans online, the president for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came to her defense. Ingrid Newkirk said her look, as well as the same design worn by Irina Shayk on the runway, “celebrate the beauty of wild animals and may be a statement against trophy hunting.”

Keep scrolling to see photos of the most talked-about Kardashian-Jenner outfits.

Kourtney Kardashian’s Wedding Dress

Fans were wildly divided over Kourtney’s super short Dolce & Gabbana dress she wore to marry Travis Barker on May 22, 2022, in Portofino, Italy. While some thought it was tacky and looked like lingerie, the Poosh founder explained her ideas behind it in an Instagram post on the couple’s one-year wedding anniversary.

“The first inspiration for my dress was when Travis and I were watching Guns N’ Roses ‘November Rain’ video one night before we were even engaged, and we said to each other ‘this has to be our wedding.’ She was wearing a short dress and I thought to myself ‘I need a short dress!’ I had more visions inspired by some 1990s campaigns of Monica Bellucci shot by Helmut Newton for Blumarine,” she explained.

“When we knew our wedding was going to be in Portofino, it also influenced the vibes and feeling of the dress. I also just wanted to feel like we ran off to Italy and got married and wanted the dress and wedding to feel that way! When @dolcegabbana suggested putting Travis’s head tattoo of the Virgin Mary on the handmade lace veil with the words from his tattoo: family, loyalty, respect underneath, I got chills and knew how special that felt,” she added.

Kim’s Marilyn Monroe Gown

“All of this — this losing weight, dyeing the hair for 30 hours, leaving the hotel in a robe, getting there, changing on the red carpet, just walking to the red carpet, then changing again into a replica of the dress because we can’t risk sitting in it and eating dinner — is all for maybe 10 minutes of my life … like, that’s it,” Kim said during an episode of The Kardashians when explaining all that she went to in order to wear the dress to the 2022 Met Gala .

‘Punk Rock’ Kourt

After Kourtney and Travis came out as a couple in February 2021, her style noticeably changed to that of rocker chic, as she began wearing mostly black clothes, lots of leather, grungy T-shirts and BDSM looks. She’s seen here in her black lace up dress she wore with Travis during their red carpet debut at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.

Kylie’s Met Gala ‘Wedding Dress’

The entrepreneur donned a highly debated look by late Off-White creative director Virgil Abloh to attend the 2022 Met Gala. The look consisted of a voluminous white ruffled skirt, tight bodice, sheer white T-shirt and a backwards baseball cap with a small veil.

“Virgil and i were supposed to go to the Met together before it got postponed in 2020,” Kylie explained in an Instagram post showing photos of her look. “To celebrate V tonight and his incredible legacy truly means the world to me. I’m humbled to wear this dress and honor my talented beautiful friend. We felt you tonight Virgil and love you forever,” she added.