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...to have been worn at the court of Charles II by a young Lady Theophila Harris, against items such as the white floral lace minidress worn by Audrey Hepburn to the Oscars in 1954, originally created by Edith...
...What constitutes glamour and celebrity has changed since the glory days of Dietrich, Mackie’s mentor Edith Head and Marilyn Monroe....
...Edith Halpert (1900-1970) was born in Odessa and arrived as a child in New York....
...Vanderbilt’s socially progressive wife, Edith, helped to subsidise a craft-education programme that trained locals in traditions of woodworking and weaving....
...That we are able to access this was thanks to Marilyn Booth, the translator who shared the £50,000 prize with Alharthi....
...RFK and Marilyn Monroe? It’s as if Jeff Koons went to France and returned with sculptures of Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. The piece, whatever it’s called, has its moments....
...Gentlemen Prefer Blondes sprang from the brain of Anita Loos, whose 1925 fiction would remain witty even if Edith Wharton hadn’t freighted it with the encomium “the great American novel”....
...: Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier....
...Johansen reminds you why....
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...Marilyn Monroe (Capote’s own choice) would have been the ideal casting. George Peppard is worse than Hepburn, a sort of preppy stuffed shirt masquerading as a writer....
...This is Violetta, recast as Edith Piaf in Christoph Marthaler’s new take on a Verdi lollipop, an attempt to make the courtesan’s tragic end relevant to contemporary audiences....
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