Blonde's costume designer Jennifer Johnson on the costumes and differentiating Norma Jeane from Marilyn Monroe.
is anything but a straight-up biopic. Releasing on Netflix this Friday, the film—an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel of the same name and starring Ana de Armas—is a refracted window into the life of Marilyn Monroe, covering the Hollywood bombshell’s life story while freely blending fact and fiction. For the film’s costume designer Jennifer Johnson, however, this approach only allowed more room to play.
It was the glitzier scenes as Marilyn—including dresses now known around the world and endlessly imitated—that became the real challenge for Johnson. “It’s a stressful task to take something that’s been designed by some of the best designers in Hollywood,” she says, citing William Travilla as a prime example.
Special details that you may not even notice in the film were also important to Johnson and the costume team. One of her favorite dresses in the film, for instance, is a re-creation of adress designed by Orry-Kelly that Monroe wears to sing with a live band. “In my research, we found that Kelly designed a see-through heart lined with rhinestones on her left ass cheek,” says Johnson. “You don’t see it in the movie, but I really tried to give Ana little presents that helped her get into character.
That skintight, nude-toned dress that Kardashian adopted as her own, however, is exactly what Johnson describes as best defining Monroe’s style. As Johnson puts it, Monroe’s clothes were essentially like a second skin. “Sometimes you don’t even notice what she’s wearing,” she says. “It was always about her hair and her body. You could almost imagine her naked.”
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