58 The Costume Designer Winter 2021
You know the dresses, but can you name the designer?
The show-stopping pink ball gown, bow a-bobbing, of
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" fame; that fluttering
ivory halter dress, forever linked in the public imagina-
tion to NYC's ubiquitous subway grates; the pleated gold
lamé gown, so scandalously plunging that it only could
appear on screen for seconds, and only from the back …
Here's a little hint:
"Billy Dear, please dress me forever. I love you, Marilyn."
Designers Are a
Girl's Best Friend
by
Alexandra
Welker
All
photos:
20th
Century
Fox;
illustration:
Travilla
