Damian Hurley and mother Elizabeth Hurley are so shut that they even share garments.
“I steal leather-based trousers on a regular basis after we’re the identical dimension” Damian, 22, advised The Sunday Instances on March 31. “Jackets are at all times nice. Any massive outsized blazers she steals in a heartbeat.”
Damian and Hurley, 58, are no strangers to twinning with one another. In 2019, Damian sported a black blazer embellished in gold security pins, a glance impressed by his mom’s iconic security pin Versace costume from the early ‘90s. (Hurley welcomed Damian in 2002 with businessman Stephen Bing.)
Hurley wore the now-iconic costume to the 1994 premiere of 4 Weddings and a Funeral, which she attended with then-boyfriend Hugh Grant. The well-known black costume featured a plunging neckline, with openings on the edges held collectively by giant gold security pins.
“It didn’t damage in any respect,” Hurley solely advised Us Weekly of the costume in October 2023. “What was actually attention-grabbing about that costume is after I borrowed it, I’d by no means borrowed an merchandise of clothes earlier than and no person had heard of Versace in England. They didn’t also have a publicity workplace in London on the time.”
Elizabeth additionally admitted to Us that, on the time, the costume was her first expertise with couture. “Once I put it on, I used to be like, ‘Wow.’ However the truth is, I used to be like, ‘Is that this going to maneuver?’” she shared, including, “It was my first expertise of sporting couture, and it didn’t transfer. Earlier than I left the home, I bear in mind bending down and touching my toes and doing all this [and] nothing moved. I knew it was going to be snug.”
The costume was described by Donatella Versace as “probably the most well-known pink carpet clothes in historical past” in August 2019. “Folks throughout the globe began speaking concerning the costume. That’s after we began to comprehend the ability of the pink carpet and celebrities in creating subjects of dialog,” Donatella, now 68, advised InStyle on the time.
Damian is continuous to comply with in his mom’s footsteps, changing into a mannequin in his personal proper and stepping behind the digicam to direct. (He helmed mother Elizabeth’s new thriller, Strictly Confidential.) Whereas talking with The Sunday Instances in March, Hurley defined that he doesn’t get simply starstruck after being introduced up across the leisure trade.
“I’ve by no means actually been starstruck,” he mentioned. “I’ve grown up round trade giants so I’m pretty unflappable.” Nonetheless, Damian admitted the one exception to this rule was when he was forged in a modeling marketing campaign with Naomi Campbell, who he described as a “household pal.”
“She actually taught me — that is very attention-grabbing — so you must have two ideas while you’re trying into the digicam, both ‘f–okay me’ or ‘f–okay you’,” Damian defined. “It’s utterly true. If you have a look at each single mannequin on the earth, that’s what they’re considering.”