Marilyn Monroe's Evening Gown
Here is a drawing I made of Marilyn Monroe's evening gown, the one she was wearing when she sang Happy Birthday Dear President to John F Kennedy. A famous gown and occasion - I can hardly do it justice. I have always been fascinated by the garments worn in historic moments, I wonder did the wearer have them made especially as in a wedding dress, or did they make last minute decisions
looking in dismay at their wardrobe and rushing to their seamstress, the shops or dry cleaners.
This work will be in an exhibiton A Mingled Yarn at Tivoli, Oneroa, Waiheke Island, Auckland from the 4th September. It will contain mostly knittings and some drawings, all from garments
which have caught my eye.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
William Shakespeare
All images copy right Frances Jill Studd 2014
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