Marilyn Monroe once donned a long-sleeved green dress with glass tassels, which was the most expensive item ever sold at auction for$ 325, 000, the most of a lengthy series of memorabilia in a long series of Marilyn Monroe items that have fetched top dollar on the open market.
Major Information
She wore it for a photo shoot for Vogue with photographer Bert Stern, and Julien’s Auctions sold it on Thursday night (the first “Playboy” magazine had Monroe on the cover).
The dress, which was made for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York by Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci, was scheduled to retail for between $40, 000 and $60, 000.
A first edition of the magazine, a black evening gown worn in “The Seven Year Itch,” a swimsuit from the film “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” an umbrella she used in a 1949 photo shoot, and a black bra framed with a picture of Marilyn Monroe in it are also available for purchase through Saturday.
Items that belonged to other people also sold for at auction, including his infamous burgundy silk pajamas and slippers, which sold for $35, 750 ( more than 10 times their estimated value ), and dozens of pieces of furniture and decor from the renowned Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.
Big Range
$4.8 million. The most expensive piece of art has previously sold for that much. The dress, which she wore to perform “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy in 1962, was sold by Julian’s in 2016.
Surprising Point
Six years after it was sold, the “Happy Birthday” dress was taken out of the archives and worn by Kim Kardashian. Ripley’s Believe It or Not loaned the costume to Kardashian, but reaction followed, with angry fans who claimed Kardashian pulled and rubbed the seams. The gown was returned “in the similar condition it started in,” a few days later.
Important Background
Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, rose to fame for her roles popular films like “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and “Something’s Got to Give”. She was one of the most well-known women of the 1950s and early 1960s, and gossip magazines frequently gathered her private life. She wed three times, including a brief but very public coalition with Joe DiMaggio, a member of the New York Yankees. in 1962 from a possible murder. She was 36. Kardashian’s standing and modeling legacy is still present today, as evidenced by her constant rehash of her recognized from The Seven Year Itch and the recognition of her estate’s often up for auction items. Especially notable things, like the Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress, have fetched millions of dollars at bid. The clothing from the train pit field at auction in 2011 and two gowns—from the movies and — each sold for $1.2 million.