Marilyn Monroe dresses labelled ‘fake’
March 24th, 2008 admin Posted in News |
THE famous white dress worn by Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch will be on display in Leeds over the next fortnight – or will it?
The dress is part of a unique exhibition which boasts the star’s finest gowns.
But the Travilla Collection tour at Savile Hall, Leeds, which also includes the pink satin dress worn for her performance of Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, is plagued by controversy.
World renowned Monroe expert Mark Bellinghaus, who closed down a bogus Monroe exhibition in 2006, claims the Leeds collection is not genuine and that the dresses were never worn by his idol, who died in 1962 aged 36.
But the man staging the exhibition strenuously denies the claim and says all the dresses are the genuine article.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I never know what to believe. Mark is always gonna say nothing is genuine! He thinks he knows everything…