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...For Gucci’s SS24 show, creative director Sabato De Sarno paired split-front pencil skirts and low-slung jeans with spiky slingbacks in bubblegum pink and oxblood....
...Over the years, the Austrian label has had more than 250 collaborations with designers, including Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier — but never with a social media celebrity such as Kardashian....
...These designs came in an array of flesh-like tones, and a halter-neck top was inspired by a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in which she appeared to be naked....
...Who can forget Marilyn Monroe, looking demure and chic in a black turtleneck and white trousers, curled up on her sofa for a Life magazine shoot in 1953?...
...This happened to me recently when, five experimental ensembles later, I was back in the silk shirt and straight jeans I put on first....
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...Blue spheres of musical notes float up from his saxophone on to Warhol’s gold ground, reminiscent of his golden “Marilyn”s....
...The auction included other works by Warhol as well as those of Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Robert Ryman....
...Marilyn Monroe’s hourglass figure gave way to Twiggy; bulbous Buns of Steel in the 1980s were followed by Kate Moss’s “heroin chic” of the 1990s....
...“Shot Sage Blue Marilyn”, made in 1964, was considered a trophy by collectors given its electrifying colours....
...The priciest work came courtesy of the collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann: Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964), which sold for $170mn at Christie’s in May ($195mn with fees)....
...“If you have a Warhol ‘Shot Marilyn’ then you should go through an auction house, but for many artists that is not the case.”...
...She says its matter-of-fact tone was influenced by a 1983 song written by the romantic partner with whom she will forever be associated, Serge Gainsbourg, on the death of Marilyn Monroe, “Norma Jean Baker...
...Sales were boosted by three significant collections and topped by Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964) at $170mn ($195mn with fees)....
...She was drawing and painting from a young age (portraits of stars like Jimi Hendrix or Marilyn Monroe, she groans)....
...“She used to come in wearing a jeans jacket and a little cap, straight from helping her ex-husband out on his chicken farm,” he says....
...Relics of Hollywood’s past are everywhere in Los Angeles, from Marilyn Monroe’s handprints in the pavement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre to the iconic sign up in the hills....
...In Hollywood, from Clara Bow to Marilyn Monroe, lipstick meant glamour and sex, inciting teenagers whose parents regarded red as reprobate to clamour for pinks and lavenders instead....
...The work was not always well received: seeing a group of Warhol’s “Marilyn” paintings, her landlady exploded, “I forbid you to show those things on my premises. This is not art, it’s necrophilia!”...
...When it comes to fit, I find a roomy style the most flattering, and it can always be belted for more definition à la Marilyn Monroe, who liked to cinch her oversized camel coat at the waist for a louche...
...My personal style signifier is shirts – I mostly wear Celine or Aimé, tucked into jeans or skirts....
...She has the same halo of silvery-grey curls, Arctic-blue kohl-rimmed eyes, packet-a-day husky voice and very possibly the same paint-spattered jeans....
...’re up and about — be that the “four-piece suit” favoured by TS Eliot, jeans and polo neck like a Silicon Valley tech bro, or my own go-to of “least worn-out jeans” and “least moth-eaten jumper”....
...Picasso and Maar first met either late in 1935, at the café Les Deux Magots (according to the photographer Brassaï, with whom she’d shared a darkroom), or in January 1936, at a screening of Jean Renoir’s...
...Both Adjaye and Gates have created new pieces; other donor artists include Jeff Koons and Christo, Marilyn Minter and Teresita Fernandez....
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