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Sep 10, 2020 · Sixty years ago today, Marilyn Monroe mesmerized a crowd of lucky onlookers while her white dress blew suggestively above her knees — and sometimes over her head. It was 1954, and the...
Nov 20, 2022 · Marilyn Monroe descending a red-carpeted staircase wearing a figure-hugging bright pink dress is one of the defining images of the mid-twentieth century. Designer William Travilla made the dress out of French candy-pink peau d’ange silk overlayed over heavy felt to give the dress structure.
Monroe is said to have paid $1,440 for the custom dress, equivalent to around $13,700 in 2024. While Dietrich had been seen and photographed wearing her version of the illusion dress before Monroe, the press coverage surrounding Monroe’s appearance in her own version on May 19 at Madison Square Garden swept the globe.
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Sep 2, 2023 · The most iconic dress of all time was worn by the most iconic woman of all time. This is the story about the famous “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress. Less than three months before Marilyn Monroe passed away in 1962, she performed at Madison Square Garden to salute President John F. Kennedy.
Nov 18, 2016 · CNN —. The dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy has sold for $4.8 million, breaking its own record as the most expensive personal item of clothing...
Jan 5, 2024 · By Radhika Seth. Monroe hit the stage in a fitted, V-neck sequined dress by one of fashion’s most slept-on designers, Norman Norell. (Fans have also speculated that the diamond earrings Monroe wore that night were gifted to her by Frank Sinatra.)
