Eva Gerney in beautiful evening gown of striped Celanese satin with unusual sleeve-stole by Ceil Chapman, Vogue, November 1, 1950

 

Eva Gerney in black rayon-crêpe spangled and pailletted evening sheath by Ceil Chapman, photo by Clifford Coffin, Vogue, August 1, 1952

 

Eva Gerney in heavenly ball gown with full floating skirt and décolletage that dips low on one side of silk taffeta by Ceil Chapman for Jay Thorpe, Vogue, October 1, 1950,

 

Joan Friedman in black rayon-crêpe dress with a deep bare-back and draped wrap-around skirt by Ceil Chapman, shoes by Delmanette, photo by Karen Radkai, Vogue, November 1, 1956

 

Jessica Ford in shimmering full-length strapless sheath of sea-green and gold lamé, worn with an endless stole lined in pale blue satin, by Ceil Chapman, photo by Frances Pellegrini, Harper's Bazaar, Oct. 1957

 

Jessica Ford in blue satin ball gown with matching jacket trimmed in dark mink by Ceil Chapman, photo by Richard Rutledge, Vogue, December 1957

 

Carmen Dell' Orefice in short evening dress of iridescent silk taffeta with pleated busk and munificently-looped skirt, by Ceil Chapman, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue, October 1, 1949

 

Carmen Dell' Orefice in short evening dress of iridescent silk taffeta with pleated busk and munificently-looped skirt, by Ceil Chapman, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue, October 1, 1949

 

Carmen Dell' Orefice in short evening dress of iridescent silk taffeta with pleated busk and munificently-looped skirt, by Ceil Chapman, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue, October 1, 1949

 

Inga Lindgren in a fine-ribbed corduroy suit with a short jacket, balloon sleeves and snug cuffs, the skirt has well-placed pleats, by Ceil Chapman, Kodachrome by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Harper's Bazaar, October 1946

 

Dorian Leigh in bouffant short evening dress of white Swiss organdy by Ceil Chapman, photo by Toni Frissell, Vogue, April 1, 1950

Christa Vogel in evening dress of white peau de soie punctuated by a black velvet cummerbund by Ceil Chapman, satin clutch by Magid, photo by Lionel Kazan, Vogue, August 15, 1957

Carmen Dell' Orefice in Celanese acetate crêpe gown with ostrich boa trim by Ceil Chapman, Vogue, November 1, 1959

For her impromptu tour in Korea for USO, Marilyn wore this Ceil Chapman cocktail dress of deep eggplant crepe embroidered with bugle beads, it came with matching bolero jacket, February 1954

Marilyn wearing Ceil Chapman's bugle-beaded crepe sheath, reads Earl Wilson's "Look Who's Abroad Now", 1954

Marilyn wears Ceil Chapman's floor-length off-white crepe gown with ruching at the hips and sleeves for photographer Philippe Halsman's photo session which garnered her first LIFE cover on April 7, 1952

Marilyn in black crepe cocktail dress with the single shoulder strap balanced by the gathered fabric on the opposite hip, by Ceil Chapman, 1950.