‘Clueless’ Inspired Kim Kardashian to Buy This Priceless Monet

An exclusive excerpt from Jonathan Van Meter’s ‘Citizen Kim’ reveals how a French Impressionist masterpiece ended up on her bathroom wall. Kim Kardashian reveals how her love for ‘Clueless‘ inspired her to buy a Monet painting and shares the story behind the purchase. One day in early February 2022, I was hanging out at Kim’s office as she tried to cram two cover shoots into one day. Between the shoots, Kim was back in her glam room, getting RE-glammed with different hair and new makeup, this time to shoot the cover of Vogue Hong Kong. Kim was effusive and bossy, running her multibillion-dollar business in a bathrobe, two gay men pulling at her hair and face.

At one point, as she was helped into and then out of a complicated, totally sheer Schiaparelli tulle dress — it was pretty much nothing but scaffolding — I looked up from my phone and she was entirely naked. Neither of us flinched. Lately, she and I had been playing a little game of “Guess What Happened in 1995?” because we kept being surprised by the astonishing number of cultural and technological shifts — to say nothing of her own complicated personal circumstances — that unfolded in that one year. Once she was dressed and sitting back in her chair, I said to Kim,