Overview
- Kardashian posted nighttime Instagram photos from Rio de Janeiro during a trip promoting Hulu’s All’s Fair, showing her splashing and fully submerging in the surf.
- The gown is identified as an Alexander McQueen spring 2003 Irere look known to collectors as the “shipwreck” dress, a piece tied to the collection’s shipwreck imagery.
- Reports note the dress was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2011 Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective, prompting questions about taking an archival chiffon piece into salt water.
- W Magazine reported the look was sourced from One of a Kind Archive and relayed unconfirmed claims that only two versions of each dress exist, with a pair at the Met and another pair linked to Kardashian.
- Khloé Kardashian reacted in the comments to the nighttime swim, and coverage also recalls Kim’s previous turn in McQueen’s 2003 “Oyster” dress at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar party.