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Liz Hurley has revealed the full story behind that £3,000 Versace safety pin dress as a total unknown, just hours before the Four Weddings And A Funeral premiere.
The British actress, 59, made headlines when she stepped out for the 1994 premiere with her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant in a daring cut-out dress – putting her name on the map.
Speaking in a Disney+ Vogue documentary airing later this month, Liz shared how she came to wear such a risque dress for the evening – and how she dealt with the huge reaction.
She said: ‘I must have been photographed 800,000 billion times that night. The next day we were on the front page of every newspaper, we were like “What the hell is this?”.
‘I remember I was just looking at it thinking “What’ then going “Well it was actually a pretty daring dress wasn’t it?”.’
Liz Hurley has revealed the full story behind that £3,000 Versace safety pin dress as a total unknown (pictured), just hours before the Four Weddings And A Funeral premiere
The British actress (pictured in October 2022), 59, made headlines when she stepped out for the 1994 premiere with her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant in a daring cut-out dress – putting her name on the map
On how she came to wear such a huge designer so early in her career, Liz explained: ‘I knew I had to have a dress and somebody said “I know someone who’s got a PR firm and they might be able to help you” so on the day of we rang and said “Do you have anything” and they said “We’ve got one dress”.
‘And I was like “Well alright I’d love to borrow it, if I can get into it.” So I went on the tube to get the dress, which was handed to me in a little white plastic bag.’
The actress and model took the Tube to pick up her infamous black Versace number held together with large gold safety pieces.
She said: ‘I’d never heard the name Versace before and it looked pretty precarious.
‘But I remember touching my toes and stretching up in it, and nothing moved, so I galloped down the stairs and that was that.’
She adds: ‘The next day we were on the front page of every newspaper and I’m like, “What the hell is this?”.
‘I hadn’t really realised how daring a dress it was.’
Elsewhere in the documentary, supermodel Kate Moss revealed the abuse she faced for her ‘heroin chic’ aesthetic in the 90s.
Speaking in a Disney+ Vogue documentary airing later this month, Liz shared how she came to wear such a risque dress for the evening – and how she dealt with the huge reaction
She said: ‘I must have been photographed 800,000 billion times that night. The next day we were on the front page of every newspaper, we were like “What the hell is this?”
The actress and model took the Tube to pick up her infamous black Versace number held together with large gold safety pieces
‘I remember I was just looking at it thinking “What’ then going “Well it was actually a pretty daring dress wasn’t it?” Liz (pictured in June) said
The 50-year-old, who became the poster girl for the trend in the Nineties, said that people would approach her in the street and accuse her of promoting eating disorders.
She told the documentary: ‘Parents would come up to me and say, “My daughter’s anorexic”. It was awful.
‘I think because I was just skinny, and people weren’t used to seeing skinny. But if I’d been more buxom, it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. It’s just that my body shape was different from the models before me.’
The look became popular after the then 19-year-old posed in lingerie for the June 1993 issue of Vogue.
Describing the shoot with photographer Corinne Day, Ms Moss said: ‘I just felt really good. The whole shoot, I felt really comfortable, I loved creating the images. You know, it wasn’t glamorous. It was in my flat in London.
It was the look that made Kate Moss famous. Now the supermodel has revealed the abuse she faced for her ‘heroin chic’ aesthetic
She told a new Disney+ documentary: ‘Parents would come up to me and say, “My daughter’s anorexic”. It was awful’ (pictured in 1995 walking in a Gucci show for Milan Fashion Week)
‘Our bedroom was like a bedsit. That’s the kind of fashion I liked. It was much simpler.’
Reflecting on the backlash to the original photo, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London, fashion editor Catherine Kasterine told the documentary: ‘The public were not ready. They were absolutely appalled.
‘Immediately, the pictures were completely vilified and slammed. Perhaps we’d underestimated how that look had in our minds been quite normal.’
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