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Elgee Bove
Very talented young designer (
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Marilyn wore in Korea (
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Ceil Mitchell Chapman (1912, Staten Island-July 13, 1979, New York)
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Beatrice "Bumble" Dawson (January 26, 1908, England - April 16, 1976, England) : English costume designer
who created the white long dress Marilyn wore in « The Prince and the Showgirl » (1957) : 
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She was closed to English actress Viven Leigh : 
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Don Loper (born Lincoln George Hardloper)(April 29, 1906, Ohio-November 21, 1972, Los Angeles)
George Francis Nardiello (January 28, 1922, New York-December 10, 2005, Palm Springs, California)
His father was the doctor for the New York State Boxing Commission. George served in Europe during WWII.In 1948 he graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York. He was among the winners of the prestigious Chicago Tribune "American Fashion Competition Award".
He became a famous designer with his cocktail and evening gowns (
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). He travelled 4 times a year in Europe to find inspiration. He never had his own label butworked for Anthony Blotta, Kiki Hart, Cameo and Rona (
).In 1954 he married the Italian contessa Marisa Pompei de Lassi, with who he had a daughter Mia. They divorced in 1973.
In 1955 he was introduced to Marilyn by Milton Greene (
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He worked for many actresses as Marlene Dietrich, Mitzi Gaynor, Rosalind Russell and Jayne Mansfield.
Realizing people didn't want glamour anymore, he settled in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1985, then in Palm Springs in 2002 until his death.
Norman Norell
Emilio Pucci (November 20, 1914, Naples-November 29, 1992, Florence).
Don Emilio Pucci, marquis of Barsento (
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Famous Italian designer. In February 1959, he married Cristina Naninni in Rome (
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1998 in a car crash)(
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At the beginning of the 1960s, Marilyn wore many Pucci's clothes ("Marilyn vêtements").
Michael Woulfe.
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