Marilyn Monroe getting ready at the Ambassador Hotel in New York on March 24, 1955. Photo by Ed Feingersh.
“You know, they ask me questions. Just an example: “What do you wear to bed? A pajama top? The bottoms of the pajamas? A nightgown?” So I said, Chanel n°5, because it’s the truth… And yet, I don’t want to say nude. But it’s the truth!” — Marilyn Monroe to Georges Belmont for Marie Claire magazine, 1960.


















