Kim Kardashian is a Margiela head—quite literally.
The mogul, actor, and budding lawyer stepped out for the 2025 Academy Museum Gala wearing Glenn Martens’s couture debut for the storied Maison Margiela. Kardashian fully committed to the fit, wearing a mask that wrapped around her entire head, with a silver and emerald choker necklace with arpeggiating pendants keeping it in place. The nude gown featured sheer cups and an extreme, nipped-in waist and up-turned bodice, with sleeves that started at the elbows and billowed out to meet the flowing, draped skirt and train.
“It does look very Skims-y,” Kardashian told Variety on the red carpet of her look. “That’s why I was drawn to it when the Margiela couture show came out. I saw this look and I was like, ‘That is so Skims to me.’” Kardashian also shared that she had full hair and makeup done underneath; because it had been a last minute look, and simply, because she’s a devoted glamazon whether you see it or not.
“I flew in my favorite makeup artist Mario from New York, and this is kind of a last-minute thing, so I’m sure he’s not so happy with it,” she said.
The fall 2025 couture collection was a triumph for Martens, who presented a show of elababorately masked people that evoked Gothic sculpture and the fearless, artisanal spirit of Margiela and Galliano before him. Kardashian opted for Look 38, and followed the similar styling that we saw on the runway; her long, cream-colored talon nails the only moment of divergence.
But it’s not the first time Kardashian has done such extreme self-cloaking in the name of fashion. At the 2021 Met Gala, she arrived wearing a stark black Balenciaga haute couture gown with matching mask and train. It was unlike anything Kardashian—or anyone else—has worn to the Met before. Completely obscuring her features and famous physique, the look gave the reality star something she hadn’t had in a long while: anonymity.
Since then, Kim has been captivated by everthing Glen Martens is doing at Margiela, and Galliano before him. For the 2024 Met Gala, she wore a custom look that featured an armour-esque bustier top that she paired with the house’s infamous tabi shoes. In August, she attended the DVF Awards in Venice wearing a sweeping, monochromatic gray, caped look.
Did she take it off for the Academy Museum Gala dinner? Come on, it’s Kim Kardashian—couture over canapés.
