Met Gala: Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner arrive
Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner arrive at the Met Gala red carpet.
The Kardashian-Jenner family tends to embrace the phrase “beauty is pain” when it comes to their fashion choices.
This was no different for Kylie Jenner’s 2025 Met Gala look, which she debuted on fashion’s biggest night on May 5.
Jenner, who was accompanied by designer Maximilian Davis as she arrived on the blue carpet in a dramatic black-and-gray piece from the Ferragamo creative director, opted for a form-fitting corset bodice with a skirt whose slit bared the entirety of her left leg.
But it wasn’t so much the apparel that proved to be troublesome, per Jenner’s Instagram Stories after the event.
In a video of the “Kardashians” star attempting to peel the black stilettos off of her feet, according to People and Today.com, she revealed, “Max told me to tape my feet into the shoe, and now my feet are stuck in the shoes.”
As she called out the Ferragamo designer for the painful fashion advice, per the outlets, multiple people were working to pry the shoes off by spraying a liquid solution. According to Today, Jenner revealed the fashion secret Davis had imparted to her was wig tape on the soles of her feet.
Later, she delivered good news to her fans as she showed off her bare feet: “They’re okay!!!!”
Coincidentally, in her May 9 Beau Society newsletter, Hailee Steinfeld also bemoaned wig glue difficulties she’d experienced at the 2021 Met Gala, where she matched an ethereal Iris van Herpen dress with a blunt blond bob. She recalled the unexpectedly drastic measure they took to rid her of the wig glue at 2 a.m., which caused her to end the night “covered in vodka.”
“That baby was cemented to my scalp. We couldn’t rip it — it’s this beautiful, handmade, lacefront wig — but we were delusionally tired and just wanted to go to bed,” Steinfeld wrote. “Eventually, we went to the minibar… vodka breaks down wig glue.”
Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala looks have also caused her pain
Sister Kim Kardashian, who was similarly in a monochrome painted-on look (a two-piece leather outfit from Chrome Hearts), has also revealed the sacrifices she’s made when showing up at the Met Gala.
In an episode of “The Kardashians” that aired earlier this year, Kardashian recalled how she struggled to breathe in the severely cinched corset she wore to the 2024 Met Gala.
“I’ve never felt this much pain in my life,” she said, noting her difficulty breathing while standing in a van that was transporting her to the Met. (She made a nearly identical remark to WSJ Magazine in 2019 about the eye-popping Thierry Mugler dress that she’d worn to the Met Gala, which also required a massively cinched waist.)
As assistants worked to unclip the Maison Margiela corset after the event, Kardashian bemoaned how she had to attempt sitting twice during the dinner portion of the gala.
Her mother, Kris Jenner, joked in the episode that she asked Kardashian, “Are you ever going to wear a dress to the Met where you actually can walk?”
But Kardashian remarked in an interview on the show, “That’s just who I am. If you look good, it is all worth it.”
Doctors told The New York Times for a 2022 piece on waist trainers that the fad could cause gastrointestinal issues, acid reflux and trouble breathing.
Contributing: Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY
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