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.