Throwback: Marilyn Monroe's personal cocktail dress, now part of my collection, on exhibit at the Bendigo Art Gallery in 2016. This dress was originally sold at auction at Julien's in 2005. Marilyn Sabrina Carpenter's Grammys Dress Looked A Whole Lot Like This Iconic Gown Worn By Shirley MacLaine In 1964, So Here's A Side By Side In 1952, Marilyn Monroe proved that style isn't about the price tagit's about presence. After critics mocked one of her dresses as looking cheap, she didn't argue she made a statement. Monroe Marilyn Monroe in black backless Christian Dior gown. Photographs from The Last Sitting, By Bert Stern, 1962. Give a girl the right dress, and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe