Fun fact: a member of the famous "Rosie the Riveter" brigade immortalized in wartime (let's be honest) propaganda posters is not only still alive, but, at age 93, she's still riveting. Or she's overseeing the robot peon that's riveting. Either way, Elinor Otto seems pretty awesome.

"The red carpet has become like a parallel business," Isabella Rossellini tells the Financial Times' Vanessa Friedman in this new interview that took place over brunch in Manhattan.

Elizabeth Taylor was the first tabloid star, with fans and haters alike all interested in her love life perhaps more than her films. With eight marriages to seven different men, her relationships provided a lot of fodder for gossips. She supposedly married so many times due to her personal motto on romance being,…

One of these things is not like the others. And yet, says the legendary designer, Kim K has "the gene that makes them able to market personal style skill into a mega business." Maybe?

The revelation of an elaborate stuffing recipe in the icon's own hand has led to speculation that perhaps Marilyn was, in fact, a domestic goddess.

Shooting has finally started on the film My Week With Marilyn starring Michelle Williams. Here is the first picture of Williams in costume. She's gorgeous, but does she make a good Marilyn?

Never-before-seen pictures of Marilyn Monroe are currently on view at a UK gallery. Says photographer Eve Arnold, now 98, Monroe liked Arnold's "looser, more intimate look than the posed studio portraits she was used to in Hollywood."

Maurice Sendak's advice to young people, in Spike Jonze's short documentary: "Quit this life as soon as possible. Get out. You're doing a documentary about a brain-dead person." [LA Times]

Look, Brigitte Bardot was stunning and all, and represented a certain kind of liberation. But, um, isn't she a little more complicated than that?

A fascinating profile in the New Yorker tries to bring Amelia Earhart down to Earth.

Let's put this debate to bed, kids.

Check it: A new series of "Unseen Images of Audrey Hepburn" from the 1950s are now showing at London's Proud Galleries. [Telegraph]

Su Pollard was named "The Wackiest Dresser in Britain" by the Daily Mail. She's defiant — and proud. More wacky pix at the link. [Daily Mail]

Hillary and Julie Goodridge, a lesbian couple who became gay icons in their fight for same-sex marriage, are divorcing.

The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, which the Hearst-owned mag has awarded to quality products since 1909, is getting an overhaul. I

Eartha Kitt, the alluringly feline entertainment icon, has died at the age of 81.

Poor Marilyn Monroe. Someone's discovered grocery receipts from shortly before she died and now some writer's using these perfectly innocuous documents to discover the "secrets" of her soul and figure. Remind us never to die!

Bettie Page, the iconic pinup and cult figure, died yesterday in Los Angeles, at the age of 85. She suffered a heart attack last week and had been in a coma ever since.