Presenting Marilyn Monroe`s Shocking Pink Pucci Dress retrieved from her own Personal Collection. This garment was worn frequently by Monroe for many promotional days and in her own personal life. Newbridge Silverware are delighted to have also secured Marilyn Monroe's Evening Jacket from The Prince and the Showgirl
 Marilyn Monroe wearing pink Pucci
History does not relate when Marilyn discovered the brilliant colors and easy shapes of the Italian house of Pucci. Founded in 1947 by Emilio Pucci, scion of a venerable Italian Florentine family, the first designs Pucci made were for skiwear-hardly surprising as he was a member of the Italian Olympic ski team. From the first jewel colored prints, inspired by motifs from the Italian Renaissance to the ultimate simplicity of little silk jersey shifts, Pucci was one of the hottest looks of the early sixties.
Marilyn Monroe Pucci Collection
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Marilyn collected Pucci items in multiples; if she didn't have a dress in every color, she certainly had one in every other shade. She favored a palette of flesh tones, of leafy greens or of shockin pinks and mauves with occasional excursions into deep blues.
Unlike her 'working' daytime wardrobe, which was predominantly black, these were clothes for Marilyn to play in, and by the beginning of the sixties had replaced the natural colored chambrays, the capri pants and matching shirts she had worn throughout the mid to late fifties. Looking at Marilyn's Pucci wardrobe today, it is astonishing how contemporary is seems; the feather light dresses cut as simply as T-shirts; the silk shirts in brilliant colored jewel prints, designed to be worn, as Marilyn did with simple white pants or with jeans, are of today, not of yesterday. Marilyn is said to have been buried in a replica of this dress but in the colour sea green Pucci dress
The Prince & The Showgirl
Newbridge Silverware have also purchased a garment as worn by Marily Monroe while starring in The Prince and the Showgirl (Warner Bros., 1957). This is a blue and dusty colored chiffon jacket with silk embroidered flower details, pleated ruffle edging at hens and collar, hook and eye closure with tight fitted waist.
The Prince and the Showgirl is a 1957 British film produced at Pinewood Studios starring Marilyn Monroe and co-starring Laurence Olivier who also directed and produced it.
Both of these items are now on display in our Museum of Style Icons here in Newbridge map |