#marilyn monroe and her gold lamé dress

[whiskeylover75]

Gorgeous Photos of Marilyn Monroe Wearing a Gold Lamé Dress, 1953

These gorgeous photos of Marilyn Monroe were taken by Gene Kornman. She wore a gold lamé dress designed by William Travilla for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

This dress, at the time, was deemed too risky and only appears in the film for a few seconds. Marilyn had just gone through a scandal due to posing nude in 1949, and the studio didn’t want any bad press or negative attention. She did, however, wear it to the Photoplay Awards the same year.

Travilla designed Marilyn’s costumes for 7 other films as well. He was reported saying several times that she was among one of his favorites to dress because of her perfect figure. With this dress, he particularly liked her breasts, saying she had: “the best breasts in Hollywood.”

Not because of the shape or size, but for the positioning. They were more wide-set than most women and it allowed him to explore a lower cut for the cleavage.

[lamaisongaga]

        FASHION CREDITS: JAZZ & PIANO SHOW 3.0

Lady Gaga finally returned to Vegas to continue the final 12 jazz & piano residency shows, and brought out an entire new setlist and costumes! Make sure to check out the other looks here and here.

The fashion was put together by Tom Eerebout and Sandra Amador with assistance by Kayla Manjarrez and Gianni Catalina.

The show also came with a handful of new visuals, including this one of LG enjoying a round of poker while wearing a dress Marilyn Monroe herself would approve.

The red sequined plunging stunner with halterneck, column skirt and flower belt detail is from Rodarte's Fall/Winter 2020 collection ($1,827).

In the same visual, she wears this absolutely divine plush black velvet column dress with deep nude illusion mesh panel and rows of pearl necklaces from Russian designer Kamilla Purshie’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection.

Let's get to the show! A label I've been eyeing for some time ever since being loved by the likes of Taylor Swift and Kelly Rowland is Taipei-based Nicole + Felicia who whipped out this fun beaded fringe mini dress for their Bridal Fall/Winter 2020 collection that any showgirl would love.

She topped it off with a new Arturo Rios Faux Grass white feather showgirl headpiece 

Dita von Teese, if you please!

The Always Love You crystal-embellished silver hoop dangle earrings ($396) are made by Laruicci...

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Laruicci “Always Love You” Earrings ($396.00)

…while the Jimmy Choo metallic silver Anouk stiletto pumps provided the finishing touches.

Lady Gaga then devoured in this custom Prabal Gurung rose gold sunburst pleated silk lamé gown with hand-embroidered crystals and ostrich feather-trimmed cape.

Both her Hyperbola rhodium-plated hoop earrings with crystals in different cuts ($600)...

...and matching Hyperbola open cuff are created by Swarovski.

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Swarovski "Hyperbola" Earrings ($600.00)

The look was perfectly accentuated with these Christian Louboutin So Kate pumps coated in pink satin!

This was one of the, if not THE look most of you have been flooding my message inbox about.

LG stunned the Vegas crowd (and us) wearing a custom couture Rose Blossom metallic plissé gown by recently-gone-viral designer Robert Wun, whose been part of her wardrobe since 2013!

The silver-tone mixed crystal flower linear drop earrings are by I.N.C. International Concepts exclusively sold at Macy's.

The perfect shoe to complete the red looks of the show are by Christian Louboutin, who created the super fun Hot Chick Psychic metallic red leather slingback pumps ($852).

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Christian Louboutin "Hot Chick Psychic" Pumps ($852.00)

Another fun Robert Wun moment was this full look based on his Spring/Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection which went viral!

Signature peplum corset top in a bonded white satin, enhanced with silk taffeta ruching detail on the bust and lace-up back with matching large stole. Paired with a low-waist technical wool skirt with asymmetrical slit pleating details in anthracite.

Styled with a black & white 3D-printed headpiece with stripped coque feathers and long black gloves.

Hot, hotter, GAGA! Our girl twirled around the stage rocking a custom Garo Sparo fiery red showgirl beaded fringe bodysuit dress with hand-stoned crystal pattern and asymmetrical hem, inspired by old Bob Mackie pieces!

If you look closer, you can see that inbetween her fingers shines the Swarovski Hyperbola cocktail ring ($400).

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Swarovski "Hyperbola" Ring ($400.00)

Hell-o! Gaga brought out the best of Vegas' spirit appropriately decked out in the master of sexy dresswear: Zuhair Murad. And yes, this is the first time!

LG selected a sparkly fringe number fully embroidered in gold sequins and crystals of various sizes from the Lebanese designer's Fall/Winter 2022 Haute Couture collection, inspired by mystical arts, from Tarot and astrology to horoscopes and palmistry, to dispel the concerns of an unsettled age through the allure of their symbols.

She wore this augmented plummet shawl on stage, which was custom-made for her by Christian Cowan!

"Each ostrich feather plume was individually hand dyed to the warm tone of her exact Haus Labs shade of foundation, and curled to achieve a more dimensional effect before being embroidered individually by hand to a crinoline base also custom dyed to be her exact warm tone- all done in-house by our New York Atelier"

One of Gaga's most stunning Vegas-worn headpieces to date is another one-off-one bespoke Arturo Rios! This time: gold lamé leather orchid bouquet with large crystals peeking out between the leaves and buds.

She finished off with her previously-worn Jimmy Choo Anouk metallic gold pointed-toe pumps!

The finale look of the show sees Gaga wearing a bespoke Topo Studio NY plush black silk velvet gown with attached tails to the wrists, embroidered with over 400 cosmic crystals.

The fun feather headpiece with crystallized cap was custom-made for her by Binata Millinery.

For this look she wore Jimmy Choo's Romy black patent leather pointed-toe pumps.

[malsperanza]

Rainy day in NYC, for some reason leading me into a nostalgic mood, remembering downtown in the 1970s and 1980s, when this city was more marvelous and strange than the Emerald City of Oz, hospitable to artists and freaks and weirdos, pocked with strange little places.

The city has always had magical portals - streets and corners that lead into other worlds. One was west 19th Street in Chelsea, an area now populated by mega-wealthy Wall Streeters who live in full-floor lofts and dine nightly at the wildly overpriced restaurants with named chefs. But then it was a district full of professional photographers' studios; at twilight in winter, if you walked down the side streets between 5th and 6th Avenues, the windows above would sparkle and flare with the flash of studio cameras.

At 35 w 19th Street was The Magickal Childe, the scariest store I've ever been in. It sold witch stuff, and was run by warlocks. There were dried bats and human skulls long before that stuff could be bought on Etsy. It smelled like incense and sealed tombs. In the back, behind thick curtains, was a little room where you could get a palm or a Tarot reading, and where, no doubt, unspeakable things happened after hours.

At 9 west 19th Street was Revolution Books, the communist and socialist bookstore (which still survives in Harlem). They carried books you couldn't easily find elsewhere, obscure collections of Fanon and translations of Ho Chi Minh's poetry. I found the collected writings of Subcommandante Marcos there in the 1990s. There was no Internet to order these things. Last time I looked, the storefront housed an upscale interior decorator's shop. We don't have nearly enough of those in NYC.

There were lots of other bookstores in the area too - used books and used records at Skyline Books a block down, at 13 west 18th Street, was one of many.

Also on 18th Street, at mid-block, was an enormous secondhand clothing store. I wish I could remember the name. In the window on a mannequin was the gold lamé halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It belonged to the shop owner, a former Broadway dresser who was a master costumer. A lot of the clothes were former costumes from Broadway and the TV shows, or design samples from the then-thriving Garment District. He had hundreds of wedding dresses. When I wanted to make a huge costume dress for Carnival in Venice in around 1981, I bought a massive wedding dress from him for a few dollars. It was from one of the soap operas - I think One Life to Live. It still has the name of the character sewn into the label inside. He got enthusiastic about my project, so he added enormous padded side panniers and redid the already plunging neckline and filled out the immense puffed sleeves with tissue. We added a black lace train and I sewed small black feathered imitation crows that I bought in the wholesale flower district on 26th Street all over it. I was the Queen of Winter for many years, going to Venice for Carnival. I wish I remembered his name.

The Magickal Child was also a publisher: "She left me her Necronomicon, number 141 of the first edition of 666 hardcover copies, inscribed by Simon: 'To Greymalkin, As per the missing page of the Nec… ‘Blessed Is, Blessed Was, Blessed Will Be…’' " (https://www.nypress.com/news/the-doom-that-came-to-chelsea-EDNP1020030610306109999)

[weirdlandtv]

‪Marilyn Monroe in a gold lamé dress. Publicity photos by Gene Kornman, 1952.

‪Probably the most “Marilyn” photos I’ll feature in this series—Marilyn the modern Venus, the Hollywood goddess, etc. She was a genius at using light to her advantage.‬

[sweet-christabel]

One Dress a Day

Day 318 May - Gold/Silver Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe)

I feel like most of Marilyn’s costumes are iconic at this point! This gorgeous gold lamé gown looks amazing on her. I really like the pleated look and the diagonal stripes on the bodice.

[thepulpgirls]

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