From this moment onwards, Norma Jeane (played in adulthood by Ana de Armas) dreams of meeting the moustachioed man on to whom she projects all her dreams and fears. His absence is a character in itself, the fateful catalyst to the creation of "Marilyn Monroe", a caricature of a woman who calls almost every man in her life "daddy". The submissive raspiness of her voice robs the noun of its innocent connotation, replacing it with a twisted seductiveness instead. It is a nudge to now-debunked psychological theories such as the Electra complex, Carl Jung's gender-swapped spin on the Freudian concept of Oedipus, a theory that perceives mothers and daughters as in direct competition. As Marilyn falls in and out of love with different men, her father assumes the voice of whoever holds her heart. Ms. Klein, who moved to New York at age 34 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, had no experience when she enrolled in cosmetology school. She finished a two-year program in less than eight months and landed a job at the salon located in Bergdorf Goodman, then operated by Mr. Valente. She worked her way up, starting as an assistant to become the salon’s director of color. Though the name of the salon changed over the years, Ms. Klein, and her eye for color, remained a constant. Mr. Farel, who worked with Ms. Klein at Bergdorf in the ’90s, believes the merger was fated. It was set in motion in February, when a pipe in his salon burst and flooded the first floor, requiring renovations. He was ready to start in April, when he heard the Bergdorf salon might be closing. During the search, police allege they located electronics, sim cards and clothing relevant to their investigation. The items were seized to undergo forensic examination.

The catchall term, Bergdorf blonde was defined in The New York Times review for Plum Sykes’s best-selling novel, “Bergdorf Blondes,” as a specific shade that “can’t be yellow, it has to be very white, like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s was. She’s the icon, the hair to worship. It’s beyond expensive.” So far we haven’t been able to find any connection between this male, the aged-care facility and the woman prior to the ... offence,” she told reporters. And the fields are just fields and there ain't no Lord, and everyone is hidden and everyone is cruel," sings Cave, a fitting encapsulation of this hellish rereading of the myth of Marilyn Monroe. Far from faultless in its disquieting gaze, Blonde's greatest merit is its frankness – it tells you what it is about to do and then does it. It is a poignant framing for a film about a woman who lived her entire life denied that predictability.The 34-year-old was charged with aggravated break and enter, inflicting actual bodily harm with intent to have sexual intercourse, aggravated sexual assault (break and enter) and aggravated sexual assault (inflict actual bodily harm on victim). There is a woman at the centre of Andrew Dominik's incendiary Blonde, although it is up to the viewer to determine whether or not this woman is Marilyn Monroe or a figure of interpretation. Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates' fictionalised biography of the actress, the Netflix phenomenon seems to have inhabited the collective film-world consciousness for what feels like more than a decade now. Over the past year, Dominik infamously promised Blonde would "offend everyone", and boldly claimed it would be eternalised as "one of the best films ever made", the enormity of his statements drawing intense anticipation ahead of the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Love film and TV? Join BBC Culture Film and TV Club on Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world.

Ms. Klein found out about the end of her career at Bergdorf from a news release. “I’d prefer not to talk about why Yoshiko didn’t work, out of respect to them,” she said. Parvin Klein, the veteran colorist who perfected an iconic shade of blonde, has painted her last highlight at the Bergdorf Goodman department store salon.The woman was very traumatised and being looked after by family and medical staff as she recovered from severe wounds to her arms, the detective superintendent said.