Le 5 mai 1921, Coco Chanel lance son parfum Chanel Nº5, l’un des parfums les plus célèbres. Coco croyait que le chiffre cinq lui portait chance. C’est pourquoi elle l’a commercialisé le cinquième du cinquième. Marilyn Monroe a affirmé un jour qu’elle ne portait rien d’autre au lit
On 5th May 1921, Coco Chanel launched her perfume Chanel Nº5, one of the most famous perfumes. Coco believed that the number five brought her luck. That’s why she marketed it on the fifth of the fifth. Marilyn Monroe once claimed that she wore nothing else to bed
In February 1962 Marilyn Monroe was invited to a dinner in honor of President Kennedy. Dinner was at eight, and at seven-thirty a car passed by. Marilyn, of course, wasn’t ready. According to her maid she still didn’t know what dress to wear for her and her stylist Kenneth Battelle was trying to do her hair. At eight o’clock Kennedy’s personal assistant returned to the party and sent a limousine for her that arrived 15 minutes later. Milt Ebbins, the person in charge of taking her, at 8:45 was still waiting. Pressed by telephone by Kennedy’s aide, at nine Ebbins entered the room and found Marilyn totally naked although wearing slippers in front of a mirror with an eyeliner in her hand. Only then did she begin to pull the dress over her head and ask him for help pulling it down. The fitted dress of hers did not exceed her waist. You can, pull, you can listened to Ebbins kneeling in front of her. Then he put on a red wig and glasses so they wouldn’t recognize her on the street and that’s how she came to dinner. At the door of the salon she gave a secret service guard her glasses and another of hers her wig. He fluffed her hair, opened the door, and in a flash everything about her stopped but her. The mute guests made a fence that led her to where Kennedy was. You finally arrived, he told her, smiling, he took her arm and they moved away from her from her crowd…
. Dinner was at eight, and at seven-thirty a car passed by. Marilyn, of course, wasn’t ready. According to her maid she still didn’t know what dress to wear for her and her stylist Kenneth Battelle was trying to do her hair. At eight o’clock Kennedy’s personal assistant returned to the party and sent a limousine for her that arrived 15 minutes later. Milt Ebbins, the person in charge of taking her, at 8:45 was still waiting. Pressed by telephone by Kennedy’s aide, at nine Ebbins entered the room and found Marilyn totally naked although wearing slippers in front of a mirror with an eyeliner in her hand. Only then did she begin to pull the dress over her head and ask him for help pulling it down. The fitted dress of hers did not exceed her waist. You can, pull, you can listened to Ebbins kneeling in front of her. Then he put on a red wig and glasses so they wouldn’t recognize her on the street and that’s how she came to dinner. At the door of the salon she gave a secret service guard her glasses and another of hers her wig. He fluffed her hair, opened the door, and in a flash everything about her stopped but her. The mute guests made a fence that led her to where Kennedy was. You finally arrived, he told her, smiling, he took her arm and they moved away from her from her crowd…
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