In 1959, Monroe attended an event at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York where her then-husband, Arthur Miller, received their Gold Medal for Drama., Naturally outshone her other half in a hand-made sleeveless black cocktail dress, with a plunging, gathered neckline. But it was the attention to detail in her dresses that made her one of history’s greatest style icons. She had the hemline and lining weighted so that the dress would lie flat and unwrinkled, accentuating her curves but not gathering over them. Many of her cocktail dresses used darts and corset-like boning to accentuate her figure.