Safety pin dress

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Liz Hurley in a Safety Pin Dress (Premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral , 1994)
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The safety pin dress (English: safety pin dress or even "That Dress" ) is an evening dress , the fashion designer Gianni Versace created. It is considered an icon of 20th century fashion history. The dress was worn by British actress Liz Hurley at the film premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994 , which Hurley attended with her then significant other, Hugh Grant , the film's lead actor.

design

Prototype: Using safety pins in punk fashion

The long, narrowly cut black evening dress with a wide, deep, heart-shaped front neckline and narrow double straps is slit or cut out from the hips down and from the waist to under the armpits. At these side cutouts, the dress is held together by a row of seven large gold-colored safety pins, with the slit on the upper body in particular opening so wide that the safety pins lie directly on the skin and form a supporting structure for the dress. In addition to the safety pins with a “supporting function”, other gold-colored safety pins on the straps and corsage decorate the dress. The safety pins used are reminiscent of the needles that traditionally hold Scottish kilts together. For the dress from its Spring / Summer 1994 collection, Versace used a blend of viscose and acetate (and not silk, as is sometimes stated ). The inspiration for the dress should come from punk .

Liz Hurley, then 29 years old, combined the dress, despite the sensational cut, with a black clutch and black slingbacks , as well as matching gold jewelry , for the film premiere .

meaning

Elizabeth Hurley (2008)

The dress is one of the most famous Versace creations and marks the beginning of Liz Hurley's worldwide media awareness. It received long-lasting media coverage around the world. Hurley's appearance was voted number 1 in the Top 20 Iconic Red Carpet Dresses in a survey conducted by the British department store chain Debenhams among 3,000 women . The dress was created at the height of Gianni Versace's career as a fashion designer, just three years before his murder. At the same time as Liz Hurley's appearance, the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts devoted a separate exhibition to Versace.

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London exhibited the dress in autumn 2003 as part of a Versace retrospective. The dress was prominently placed at the entrance to the exhibition.

In 2007 a copy of the safety pin dress was offered for sale at Harrods in London for £ 10,690 . The dress was part of an exhibition on the " Little Black " in the London department store branch.

reception

Versace's safety pin dress has since inspired designers in creating gowns for red carpet appearances. The hotel chain heiress Paris Hilton appeared in a short black dress with a wide skirt attached to the top with safety pins at the waist for the LA premiere of Michael Jackson's This Is It , while the actress Anna Paquin wore a similar but slim-fitting model for the LA premiere of Scream 4 in 2011.

Even after Versace's death, the fashion label kept falling back on the safety pin dress as inspiration. For example, the collection of the Versus line in 2009 was based almost exclusively on references to the dress - be it with safety pins as an accessory or with cutouts and slits.

In 2012, the singer Lady Gaga initially wore a modified version with safety pins in the waist and along a slit short skirt. Shortly afterwards, however, she also wore the original dress at a meeting with designer Donatella Versace in Milan . It was on loan from the Versace Archives and is believed to be the same dress Liz Hurley had worn almost 20 years earlier. Lady Gaga had recently worn other historical Versace dresses in a video.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Telegraph: Liz Hurley's famous Versace dress on sale , September 19, 2007; accessed on January 4, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c www.klatsch-tratsch.de: Liz Hurley - 1st place for the most beautiful clothes on the red carpet , October 10, 2008; accessed on January 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04/27/article-0-010F380C00000578-800_468x780_popup.jpg accessed December 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b The Guardian: Lady Gaga dares to wear That Dress , October 3, 2012; accessed on December 30, 2013.
  5. ^ A b Nicola White, Ian Griffiths: The fashion business: theory, practice, image . Berg Publishers, 2000, ISBN 978-1-85973-359-2 , p. 16 (accessed December 30, 2013).
  6. ↑ Angela McRobbie: British fashion design: rag trade or image industry? . Routledge, June 26, 1998, ISBN 978-0-415-05781-3 , p. 191 (accessed May 1, 2011).
  7. ↑ a b c Victoria and Albert Museum: Gianni Versace ; accessed on December 30, 2013.
  8. ↑ Urmee Khan: Liz Hurley 'safety pin' dress voted the greatest dress . The Telegraph . October 9, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  9. ↑ Michael Saren: Marketing graffiti: the view from the street . Butterworth-Heinemann, May 24, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7506-5697-9 , p. 226 (accessed May 1, 2011).
  10. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/modezar-gianni-versace-kam-selbst-zur-eroeffnung-seiner-ausstellung-sehr-schoen--sehr-aesthetisch,10810590,8870060.html accessed on 30 . December 2013.
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fashionunited.de
  12. ↑ http://fashionsandmode.blogspot.de/2012/02/would-you-wear-it-safety-pin-dresses.html accessed on December 30, 2013.
  13. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/interactive/2009/sep/29/versus-versace-christopher-kane-milan accessed on December 30, 2013.
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.entertainmentwise.com