I created a mass Marilyn Monroe swim for my mother
Sarah Tinney started one of Australia’s biggest open-water swims as a way of dealing with grief. All of the swimmers dress up as Marilyn Monroe, her mother’s favourite film star.
In 2013, Sarah Tinney agreed to do a charity swim dressed as Marilyn Monroe. But as the only one in fancy dress, she panicked and tried to rope in others. The swim was a tribute to her mother, a Marilyn Monroe movie devotee, who’d died of cancer. And over the years, what started as a a ragtag group of swimmers in southern Australia transformed into a world record-breaking event, raising almost a million dollars for cancer research.
André Leon Talley was an icon in the fashion world. He went from a modest life in North Carolina to become editor-at-large at the most famous fashion magazine in the world: Vogue. He died aged 73 in January 2022 after a life of trailblazing work. In 2019, he spoke to Outlook’s Emily Webb about his fashion awakening.
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(Picture: Sarah Tinney at the Marilyn Jetty Swim. Photo credit: Courtesy of Cancer Council SA.)
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My record-breaking Marilyn Monroe mass swim
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- Mon 4 Apr 202211:06GMTBBC World Service
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