Elizabeth Hurley wears Versace safety-pin dress to premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral.

The invitation to the premiere read, "Dress as if going to wedding." Liz Hurley wore something you might expect on a stag night. A "favour" from the Versace press office led to Hurley's meteoric overnight fame. "His people told me they didn't have any evening wear, but there was one item left in the press office. So I tried it on and that was it,'' she says. But it so wasn't. Something magical and unheard of occurred that night. The combination of £2,540 black, floor-length Versace gown held together by 24 safety pins, and a voluptuous yet unknown 29-year-old actress, led to a new concept: celebrity fashion (and Hurley-worship, she was signed as the face of Estee Lauder soon afterwards). Michael Foster, the then head of ITN, told Elizabeth at the time, "Do you realise every woman at this party hates you for wearing that dress?" Fortunately for her, most of the paparazzi were hot-blooded males. News pictures were wired globally and the following morning La Hurley woke up a star... thanks to THAT dress.