“Without question, the damage is significant,” the Scott Fortner Marilyn Monroe Collection wrote on Instagram.
On Tuesday he wrote on Instagram, “This dress is a piece of my life and my heart. To see what @kimkardashian did in the damaging of it is heartbreaking,” adding the hashtags #nationaltreasure, #howdareyou, #ego, #greed and #thief.
“I was hired by Julien’s [in 2016] to put the dress on display, and not just the dress, I put Marilyn Monroe’s entire auction on display,” Morrisette. “I know this dress, and the damage is so apparent. I left Ripley’s in tears. I ran out with my hand over my mouth, holding back the tears because I could not believe the damage that they allowed to happen for a publicity stunt.”
Kardashian, 41, lost 16 pounds in three weeks in order to fit into the dress because it did not fit – and could not be altered – the first time she tried it on after the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Orlando, Florida, flew the gown to her via private plane, the magazine reported.