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Kim Kardashian visits the Vatican in off-the-shoulder sheer lace dress

What to pack for a trip to Vatican City? When you’re Kim Kardashian, cutouts make the cut.

The reality star, 40, didn’t leave her skin-baring styles at home during her visit to the Vatican on Monday, instead opting for a sheer, off-the-shoulder white lace dress by Barragán that exposed swaths of skin across her midsection and back. (At least the cutouts formed a cross?)

She paired the peekaboo gown with eye-catching gray sunglasses for the tour, where she was joined by supermodel Kate Moss and her 18-year-old daughter, Lila Grace.

Kim Kardashian in a white lace cutout dress at the Vatican
Kim Kardashian didn’t tone down her sexy style for a trip to the Vatican on Monday, sporting an off-the-shoulder sheer lace look with skin-baring cutouts. MEGA/BACKGIRD; MEGA/BACKGRID

While the star recently said she won’t ditch her sexy style as a lawyer, it seems she wasn’t switching her signature look for the pope, either.  

It’s not the first time Kardashian’s sported confounding cutouts: She’s famously a fan of threadbare attire, even joking that one of her barely-there dresses was “not for you to understand.”

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Kim Kardashian in a white lace cutout dress at the Vatican
Kim Kardashian’s curve-hugging dress also featured cutouts in the back.MEGA / BACKGRID
Kim Kardashian touring the Vatican with Kate Moss and Lila Grace.
Kim Kardashian toured the Vatican with Kate Moss and Lila Grace.MEGA / BACKGRID
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Kim Kardashian touring the Vatican with Kate Moss and Lila Grace.
At least the cutouts formed a cross?MEGA / BACKGRID
Kim Kardashian touring the Vatican with Kate Moss and Lila Grace.
Social media seemed perplexed by Kardashian’s choice of outfit.MEGA / BACKGRID
Kim Kardashian touring the Vatican with Kate Moss and Lila Grace.
But then again, the star’s used to causing a stir wherever she goes.BACKGRID
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While she covered her latest eye-popping ensemble with a leather jacket to enter the Sistine Chapel itself, many fans were perplexed by the sexy style.

“Kimmy, have you no decency? We understand you are decorum absent, but must you find it necessary to parade your assets in this manner at the VATICAN? Disrespectful…,” one person tweeted.

“Uh I had to buy a scarf to go into the Vatican to cover my shoulders because I had a sleeveless shirt on. There is no way they let her in the Vatican without her shoulders covered,” another added.

Kim Kardashian and friends visiting the Vatican
Inside the Vatican, Kardashian covered up with a leather coat. Instagram

The Vatican Museum’s dress code prohibits visitors from wearing sleeveless or low-cut garments and shorts or skirts that hit above the knee.

Perhaps Kardashian’s used to dressing for her ex Kanye West’s Sunday Services, where she once showed up in a skintight latex look.