Emilio Pucci. Marilyn Monroe asked to be buried in one.
Emilio Pucci designed ski clothes. A Harper's Bazaar editor photographed him on a slope in Zermatt in 1947. Two years later he had a boutique in Capri. The first silk-jersey dresses came in 1954 — light enough to fold into a handbag. Pucci wove his own signature into every print as an anti-counterfeiting measure. The prints are the authentication.
Marilyn Monroe wore Pucci in Mexico City in February 1962. She asked to be buried in a green Pucci dress. The request was honoured. Jennifer Lopez wore it to press events. Linda Evangelista modelled the full-length prints. The 2025 Pucci runway under Camille Miceli still runs the same signature colour palette.
The print on our piece runs across the front bodice — blue, green, purple on a pale ground — and cuts to a black skirt at the waist. This printed-bodice / black-skirt construction appears in Pucci's archival record across multiple decades. Size XS. Pit-to-pit 40 cm · Length 90 cm.
Pucci wove his own signature into every textile print — an anti-counterfeiting measure from the beginning. The print is the authentication. The Emilio signature hidden in the fabric is the only authentication you need.
