How the ‘Blonde’ costume, hair, and makeup teams transformed Ana de Armas into Marilyn Monroe

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Kim Kardashian have been inspired by her signature platinum blonde hair, red lipstick, and body-hugging gowns. Now, Ana de Armas is joining the Marilyn club in Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited Blonde, and her transformation into the public and private iterations of Norma Jeane is flawless. "It’s hard not to be a super fan of Marilyn because I think she’s seeped into all of our subconscious," Blonde costume designer Jennifer Johnson tells Elle.

While the Joyce Carol Oates source novel is a fictionalised account of Monroe’s life (and death), Dominik gave an 800-page PDF to the costume, hair, and makeup teams referred to as the Bible featuring images of the star that he wanted to recreate. “We dove in and went to every source.

Even during the shooting, the movies are playing in the makeup and hair trailer—the photographs are all over the walls,” says makeup department head Tina Roesler Kerwin.

With around 100 costume changes during Blonde’s production (not all of them made it into the film), you would expect Johnson has glimpsed every photo taken of the movie star before and during her Hollywood reign.