In preparation for her head-turning appearance at the 2019 Met Gala, Kim Kardashian met with the fashion designer Thierry Mugler to conceptualize her look. “Who are you, actually?” the designer asked her, according to Mr. Mugler’s manager at the time. “How would you define yourself?”When she responded, “I’m just a California girl,” Mr. Mugler decided he was going to make her just that, the manager, Jean-Baptiste Rougeot, recalled. “He said: ‘Yes, this is it! She is going to be directly out of the ocean, out of Malibu, directly onto the red carpet in New York,’” Mr. Rougeot said.

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Persons: Kim Kardashian, Thierry Mugler, “ I’m, ” Mr, Mugler, Jean, Baptiste Rougeot, “, ’, Rougeot, Sophia Loren’s, ”, Kardashian’s Locations: California, Malibu, New York