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Billie Eilish’s Oscar De La Renta Met Gala Gown Is An Ode To Marilyn Monroe
Billie Eilish’s viral British Vogue cover story paid homage to retro Hollywood sirens, and now she’s chosen to channel perhaps the most revered pin-up of all at the 2021 Met Gala: Marilyn Monroe. Eilish—a co-chair of the gala along with fellow Gen-Z superstars Timothée Chalamet, Naomi Osaka and Amanda Gorman—floated onto the red carpet in a frothy black gown by Oscar de la Renta, inspired by the tulle dress Monroe wore to attend the Oscars in 1951. The theme of this year’s ball is In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, so Eilish turned to one of the biggest names in U.S. fashion to craft her ode to a woman as ingrained in American culture as stars and stripes.
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Marilyn Monroe only attended the Oscars once, in 1951. She’s seen here wearing the tulle gown she went on to borrow from the 20th Century Fox wardrobe department to wear on the night.
Sunset Boulevard“Billie had planned to go to the Met Gala for the first time before the pandemic happened,” shares British Vogue’s style director Dena Giannini, who styled the Happier than Ever star for the event. “She had always dreamed of wearing a proper ballgown—particularly something corseted, thanks to her love of Barbies growing up—but she thought that it might be in an acid-green colorway or something along those lines. After her British Vogue cover, though, her style began to evolve. After reviewing about a million images together, she and I decided that it had to be Oscar de la Renta for the Met Gala. I called [creative directors] Laura [Kim] and Fernando [Garcia], and within 10 minutes, we’d agreed to collaborate together.”
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Kerry McDermott
