In an excerpt from Marilyn In Manhattan: Her Year of Joy, author Elizabeth Winder captures Marilyn Monroe's 1954 escape to Connecticut, where the iconic actress redefined her look.
author Elizabeth Winder captures Marilyn Monroe’s 1954 escape to Connecticut, where the iconic actress redefined her look.
Amy noticed that Marilyn, like most other native Californians, had no real winter clothes. She went to her good friend, the designer Anne Klein, and said, “ ‘Listen, I have a friend and she’s an actress’—I never told Annie who it was—‘and I need some clothes because she has no fashion sense and I have to dress her up.’ And Annie said, ‘Come and get what you want.’ So I went to the offices, and I took about eight outfits, had them send it to Connecticut. It went under the Christmas tree.
Frustrated, Milton enlisted Amy’s help. A former model—who tucked her pearls into her neckline years before Jackie would—Amy was the ideal style mentor. She started with shoes: “I was the one who got her out of those dreadful shoes she always wore—round in front, closed in back, with a two-inch gap on the instep. Every star at Twentieth Century Fox wore those. I got her fifty pairs of Italian shoes at Dalco. Identical closed pump with a high spiked heel, maybe three-and-a-half-inches long.
“You’re already a star,” Amy would plead. “You can wear anything you want.” But Marilyn felt alienated by “respectable” high fashion, which tended to favor trim nymphs like Amy. At the same time, she had zero interest in following trends. A dress, however beautiful, would always just be a flattering frame. It was her face, her body, her hair and skin that were on show. That’s why she always favored neutrals—even her tartiest frocks were in black, creamy whites, or camel with touches of bronze.
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