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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Meguire Hennes

Sydney Sweeney's Tributes to Marilyn Monroe Peak With a 73-Year-Old Dress Straight From Her Archives

Sydney Sweeney attended the Santa Barbara Film Festival in a vintage, off-the-shoulder white dress originally owned by Marilyn Monroe.

Sydney Sweeney has always loved a Marilyn Monroe homage, like her white gown for The Housemaid's premiere. But on February 8, she became Monroe's actual doppelgänger in a vintage little white dress, straight from the late actress's archives.

Stylist Molly Dickson did her big one at the 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival: She tracked down Monroe's exact Cecil Chapman midi from vintage seller Timeless Vixen, which Sweeney wore to accept the Virtuosos Award. The off-the-shoulder style Dickson revealed on her Instagram Stories seemed to be in mint condition, despite being over 70 years old.

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