Is it time to let go of our morbid fascination with Marilyn?

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Is it time to let go of our morbid fascination with Marilyn?
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'We continually exhume the details of her life, as though doing so might one day make the pieces click into place.' littlewondering

which aimed to view Monroe’s story through a feminist lens. She was ‘digitally reimagined’ on the cover of magazinewearing contemporary designs from the likes of Balenciaga, Fendi and Miu Miu. While in May, Andy Warhol’s 1964 portrait,. That same month, Kim Kardashian sparked outrage by wearing the actual dress that Monroe wore to serenade John F Kennedy on his birthday to the Met Gala .

The money continues to roll in 60 years on because our appetite for Marilyn remains strong. We are still reaching towards her hoping to discover some new kernel of information that might reanimate Marilyn from the woman whose face has been flattened onto cushions, keyrings, tea towels, notebooks and T-shirts. “It’s this idea of what the ‘real’ Marilyn was like and, of course, we can never know that.

Instead, the transformation from Norma Jeane Baker, as she was born, and Marilyn Monroe, as she became, was calculated at every step and to think otherwise does the woman herself a disservice. “It undermines the fact that she’s a performer,” says Bolton. “It’s classically done with female stars, whether it’s Judy Garland or Rita Hayworth or any of them, [there is] this idea that they’ve just got so much natural talent. As if you just turn the camera on them.

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