Elizabeth Hurley has admitted she found it ‘odd’ when Maya Jama ‘copied’ her iconic Versace safety pin dress for the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards in November.
Maya’s racy dress boasted cut-outs, held together with giant gold safety pins, and almost identical to the iconic Versace number that shot Elizabeth to fame.
Elizabeth, 60, went from an unknown star to making headlines around the world, when she wore the £3,000 plunging gown to the 1994 premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral, with then-boyfriend Hugh Grant.
And exactly three decades later, Maya brought the career-making gown back to the red carpet, ensuring she stood out from the crowd.
Learning of the link, Liz, 60, told the Sun: ‘I mean, to me, it’s really odd but it’s actually kind of fabulous.
‘Over the years, people have said to me, it’s the dress’s 20th birthday, or it’s the dress’s 25th, and I’m like, this is insane.’
Elizabeth Hurley has admitted she found it ‘odd’ when Maya Jama ‘copied’ her iconic Versace safety pin dress for the 2024 MTV European Music Awards in November
Maya’s racy dress boasted cut-outs, held together with giant gold safety pins, and almost identical to the iconic Versace number that shot Elizabeth to fame
The dress hugged the presenter’s statuesque frame as she posed up a storm for the cameras, teaming it with pair strappy stilettos.
Allowing her eye-catching outfit to do all the work, Maya opted for no jewellery, and styled her raven hair in soft waves.
Completing her striking look, the beauty sported a flawless palette of makeup, including winged eyeliner and a pink lip.
Speaking in a Disney+ Vogue documentary airing last year, 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?’.’
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.’
Learning of the link, Liz, 60, told the Sun: ‘I mean, to me, it’s really odd but it’s actually kind of fabulous’
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
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.’