Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala 2026 breastplate previously appeared on a ‘90s icon

Kim Kardashian has viral Met Monday looks down to a fine art.

For the Met Gala 2026 red carpet, she interpreted the “Costume Art” theme with British Pop artist Allen Jones, who created her metallic orange breastplate.

She wasn’t the first famous face to slip into the sculptural piece, though. Jones photographed supermodel Kate Moss wearing the same look in a now-famous 2013 portrait.

That photograph, titled “Body Armour,” sold for roughly $52,000 at a Christie’s auction devoted to the supermodel and later became the signature image of Jones’ Royal Academy retrospective in 2014.

Jones, 88, originally created the fiberglass cast in the late 1960s as a prop for a film he’d written that was never produced. For Kardashian’s Met look, the breastplate was repurposed from that same mold and finished in a glossy orange at an auto body shop.

It was initially meant to be pink, but the pair ultimately went with same gilded hue seen on Moss.

“I wanted something original — I didn’t want to cast my own body,” Kardashian told Vogue. “Allen Jones would be iconic. Sexy. Classic. Cool. Innovative.”

Kardashian had the breastplate — which originally covered the full body — cut down to end at the hips so she could actually walk the carpet. London-based leather specialists Patrick Whitaker and Keir Malem of Whitaker Malem constructed an attached leather skirt, which Jones then painted on the sides to go with the breastplate’s orange finish.

“He was adamant that it be something current and fresh that he had just worked on — not just a piece from his past,” Kardashian explained.

Kardashian’s creative director, Nadia Lee Cohen, helped shape the final vision, and Christian Louboutin heels completed the look.

Monday’s appearance was Kardashian’s 13th trip up the museum’s famous steps — a run that has included a “dripping wet” Thierry Mugler mini and the borrowed Marilyn Monroe dress that sparked a firestorm in 2022.