Rebel without a cause James Dean has been transformed into a hipster with a tattoo in an art project bringing some of Hollywood’s biggest stars into the 21st century.
The actor, famous for his trademark blue jeans and white T-shirt who died in 1955, has been given a a full-sleeve tattoo, longer hair and a full beard.
Other famous faces getting a modern makeover include Elvis Presley who keeps his quiff but gets stubble and an earring.
While Marilyn Monroe’s solid, sprayed hairstyle is replaced by a messier hairdo.
Also chosen for an update were Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton and Grace Kelly.
The pictures were created by a team of digital artists challenged by technology company Samsung to use their Note 4 phones to come up with the images of how they would look if photographed now.
The artistic team, led by digital designer Quentin Devine, worked with cultural studies professor Will Brooker to predict how the stars would have looked now.
Prof Brooker said Dean “may have pushed his rebellion further in the present day”.
He said: “The star of Rebel Without A Cause was the original hipster who established a timeless teenage look with his laid-back combination of zip jacket, blue jeans and white T-shirt – the bad boy with sad eyes and a secret heartbreak.”
Samsung marketing director Ines van Gennip said: “Audrey Hepburn, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe practically invented style as we know it today, so we thought it would be fun in the run-up to both London Fashion Week and the Oscars to imagine how these stars may have looked had they lived in the present time.”
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