From iconic movie costumes to personal letters, the world is about to witness the biggest Marilyn Monroe auction ever. And it’s all on show in Ireland from today. Vickie Maye meets the man behind the auction.

For the past five years, she has wowed audiences in community halls and theatres all over Co Cork — now a middle-aged, control-freak housewife from West Cork is the star of a new film.

Delta Goodrem’s floral-lace embellished gown won a national poll to determine the best-dressed star at the Logie Awards in Melbourne. 

Think Hollywood stars of the 40s and 50s. Taking inspiration from postwar makeup is so much easier than it was to get your glam on at the time.

Oscar night brings the stars out in high-wattage glamour and for many of us, the fashion is the sole reason to watch.

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FKA Twigs reckons she’s really a traditional girl at heart. The 27-year-old singer claimed that she’s looking to settle down with a husband and kids and has no ambitions to be part of the world of fellow star TAYLOR SWIFT and her “squad”.

Los Angeles city bosses rode roughshod over state and local laws by allowing a home where Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe briefly lived to be bulldozed to make way for a condominium, a court action claims.

The twin brother of an Irishman killed in America earlier this month has paid tribute to the people of Limerick who turned out in their hundreds last night to show their solidarity.

Grey skies didn’t dull the rainbow colours at Cork’s 10th annual Pride parade yesterday afternoon.

There is no evidence that humans emit pheromones to lure sexual partners, but our natural body scents can be highly attractive, says Sharon Ni Chonchuir.

Kyle Pryor aka Dr Nate Cooper was in Cork recently. Ellie O’Byrne asks him why Irish people are so addicted to ‘Home and Away’.

Marilyn Monroe's love letters are going up for sale.

November beauty offers up soothing candles, sparkly powders and an empowering lipstick for every pout. 

TV presenter Caroline Morahan is proud to be Irish but there’s one thing she is happy to embrace about her life in LA: alcohol awareness.

BALLOON STOLEN AT ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FEST

Wedding bells in The Bay

England: A pair of sloths have speeded up their usual slow dating game to produce London Zoo’s first baby sloth.

Who knew?

There’s nothing more frustrating than being a size 10 in one shop, and finding you’re a 12 in the next. Rose Mary Roche explains why vanity sizing has become such a big issue.

The family of a woman with advanced Alzheimer’s, who has been waiting seven years for a housing adaptation grant, yesterday confronted the housing minister in a tearful plea for help before she dies.

We’ve been waiting a long time for it, but the new — and very

From Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, to the cult of the Italian designer in the 1980s, London’s V&A is paying tribute to the glamour of Italian fashion in a new exhibition.

The family of a woman with rapidly advancing Alzheimer’s, who have been waiting almost five years for a housing adaptation grant, have made an emotional appeal to the Government to help them continue caring for her at home.

The family of a woman with Alzheimer’s disease have spoken out on their three-year wait for a housing adaptation grant.

Former 'Coronation Street' star Helen Flanagan wants to pose nude for Playboy magazine.

Classical: Calefax Reed Quintet - CIT Cork School of Music

Marilyn Monroe had cosmetic surgery, her medical notes revealed.

“... A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She’s standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blonde head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. The dress is magic ... ”

Kerry Katona is to play Marilyn Monroe on stage.

He may have been one of cinema’s greatest directors, but Orson Welles’ opinions show how little he thought of some of the biggest stars from the other side of the camera.

Do Cello Shots with Estée Lauder

Jessica Chastain wore a gorgeous, flesh-toned Armani Privee gown, shot through with silver stripes.

…about Lincoln star Daniel Day-Lewis.

Megan Fox has apologised to Lindsay Lohan.

SHORTLY after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin allowed a small number of academics to poke around in the previously secret Communist Party and KGB archives.

An exhibition of Monroe memorabilia in Italy proves that the iconic actress was a modern-day Venus, says Daisy Goodwin

THE BESTSELLING biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is most notable for revealing that the innovator and aesthete genius behind Apple — the world’s most successful company — was in many ways a giant, semi-autistic toddler.

Only 11 years after her death, Elton John sang his ode to Marilyn Monroe: “Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.”

They both died in August.

Blake Lively pretends to be Marilyn Monroe on the red carpet.

Marilyn Manson believes drugs and alcohol have made germs "afraid to live" in his body.