Amsterdam Looks Back a Major Style Icon Marilyn Monroe


If she is still alive, she should be 90 years old now, Marilyn Monroe, a major style icon Marilyn Monroe, June 1, 1926. She may have died in August 1962, yet she still remains the subject of regular books and exhibitions, films and a lot of her pictures all over the world. Seems that everybody knows, who she was.

After her death, her belongings were stored together for decades and left untouched by the heirs. 37 years later, it began auction, which began at Christie's in New York, followed by a series of other auction houses. 

In the year that Marilyn Monroe would have been ninety's , Nieuw Kerk Amsterdam looks back a major style icon Marilyn Monroe. From October 1 to February 5, 2017, the exhibition about her life and her legacy, with many personal belongings from her last house on 5th Helena Drive in Brentwood, California. 





A large part was purchased by Monroe collector Ted Stampfer, and those are the objects presenting the exhibition. The privéobjecten, including famous clothing, accessories, and personal documents show along with photos and video clips a uniquely intimate picture of this woman, inside and outside the camera's view.

This biographical exhibition is open from Marilyn world: the successful, glamorous exterior, the often lonely inside full of setbacks and her witty, creative and progressive personality. Determined to make a career in her own way, she got the respect that many people, even today, to the imagination. Her statement "I do not mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it," says a lot about who she was and who she wanted to be. About her time and the world in which she lived.