Can it really have been 30 years since Elizabeth Hurley wore That Dress? A whole three decades since that gravity-defying sliver of artfully cut Versace black silk, Lycra and strategically placed Medusa-head gold safety pins upstaged not only Hugh Grant (Hurley’s boyfriend at the time), but the entire Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere, thereby creating the ultimate red-carpet moment against which all others shall be judged? Looking back at it now, the serendipitous nature of it all – no stylists involved, no contracts exchanged (the dress was a last-minute borrow from a PR, offered in a white plastic bag) – is so rogue, it’s almost impossible to imagine it happening today. “Well, I have nothing but fond memories of 1994,” says Hurley, now 58. “It was an amazing time for me personally, and you’re right, it was an amazing time for fashion.
And I think for the UK in general. It is a little odd to me that people are still interested in that particular dress and they frequently tell me when it’s having a birthday ..
. But why not? It was a wonderful dress.” Of course, Hurley went on to become friends with Gianni Versace (“It was a terrible loss when his life ended so horribly”), and that fashion house has remained a golden thread in her life: “I’ve also worn fabulous dresses from Donatella’s time at the helm .
.. Donatella oversaw my wedding in 2007 [to her now ex Arun Nayar].
And I had many dresses because I got married in England and India. Those a.
