August 5, 2018 (Fashion&Beauty) Before she
became an actress, Monroe was a model, and in her brief career she wore fashion
that was the envy of women everywhere. Nobody personified glamour better than Marilyn Monroe, the beautiful yet
troubled Hollywood actress known as much for her feminine curves and sex appeal
as her screen presence. Monroe was also a fashion icon, what she wore playing
an important part in her star image (she often chose white to emphasise her
blonde hair, and wore revealing outfits to show off her figure).
Her
publicity stunts often involved clothes exposing large amounts of flesh or even
malfunctioning, such as when a shoulder strap of her dress suddenly snapped
during a press conference. Born Norma Jeanne Mortenson in Los Angeles in 1926,
she spent most of her childhood in foster care before launching a career in
modelling – until she caught the eye of 20th Century Fox executive Ben Lyon.
She
seduced some of Hollywood’s most eligible men, she sang Happy Birthday, Mr.
President in 1962, to John F. Kennedy and wore some of the world’s most
iconic dresses – Monroe on a subway grate, with her halter-neck dress billowing
in the wind is one of cinema’s most enduring images. But depression and mental
illness plagued the unhappy star, who was found dead in her LA home on August
5, 1962, following a drug overdose. She was just 36.
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