Marilyn Monroe's 10 Most Iconic Dresses of All Time After a gossip columnist declared a strapless red silk taffeta gown with black French lace overlay that Marilyn Monroe wore "cheap and vulgar," and said she "would have been better served wearing ' Image of Marilyn Monroe wearing black lace negligee, 1953 (b w photo) Marilyn Monroe for Vogue, wearing a black dress often attributed to Christian Dior haute couture, photographed by Bert Stern (July 1962) Part of The Last Sitting, this series would become her final