This season’s colours include blood orange and baby pink. The original dress is still available today, for £1,595 via the Mouret website and shop in Mayfair. It spawned thousands of imitations - at one point Topshop was selling 5,000 Galaxy-style frocks a week for £65. Tell me, when do women ever want to wear the same dress?’ He said: ‘Each of them was complimenting each other. Mouret hosted an event at Selfridges in 2006 and was overjoyed when around 60 women turned up in the Galaxy. The dress, as pictured on actress Rachel Weisz, bestows poise and confidence with its classic silhouette

Victoria Beckham apparently had one in every colour, and wore the Galaxy’s successor, the Moon, in hot pink to husband David’s debut at LA Galaxy in 2007. Vogue wrote: ‘For weeks you couldn’t open a newspaper or a magazine without seeing another young Hollywood A-lister wearing it.’ĭemi Moore had one, as did Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, and Jodie Foster. Initially retailing at £990, it sold out at Harvey Nichols within a few days, and for months there was a waiting list. It was also - most unusually for high-end designer fashion - available in sizes up to a 20. It pulled in the waist, pushed up the bosom and elevated the bottom.Īnother part of its genius was the famous origami draped shoulders, which made it instantly iconic. The secret to its seductive shape lay in the thick, elasticised mesh underlay, made from a material called Powerflex that was used in corsets in the 1950s. Seen on everyone from Halle Berry and Cameron Diaz to Rachel Weisz and Sienna Miller, the sleek sheath seemed to bestow poise and confidence.

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