Safety Pin Dress Chosen Best Red Carpet Gown Ever
The black Versace safety pin dress worn by Elizabeth Hurley at the 1994 premiere of the film Four Weddings and a Funeral has been deemed the best red carpet gown of all time. The Telegraph reports that the a poll of 3,000 women by the Debenhams department store determined that the black dress with gold safety pins that exposed much of Elizabeth Hurley's admirable figure was the most iconic frock. The dress went on sale last year at Harrods as part of their "Timeless Luxury" promotion for £10,690.Second place went to Audrey Hepburn's white flower patterned Givenchy dress, followed by Julia Roberts in black-and-white vintage Valentino at the 2001 Oscars. Others in the top ten included Jennifer Lopez's plunge-to-the-navel Versace at the 2000 Grammy Awards and Bjork's infamous swan dress at the 2001 Oscars.
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Valerie Oct 11th 2008 9:24PM
With all the gowns I cannot believe they picked this best ever.The dress itself is beautiful but I think the safety pins are stupid and tacky and just ruin it.
JW-C Oct 12th 2008 6:15PM
It wasn't chosen purely based on it's aesthetic quality but because of it's iconic status as "that dress". Pretty obvious. The safety pins made this dress what it is so in fact didn't ruin it at all.