# Everyone wants the dress that already made history > Gigi, Zendaya and Sydney are wearing the 90s gowns that made other women famous, and the originals still get the last word. - Title: Everyone wants the dress that already made history · Dailymail - Summary: Gigi, Zendaya and Sydney are wearing the 90s gowns that made other women famous, and the originals still get the last word. A dress with a past now outranks… - Keywords: fashion, red carpet, 90s style, celebrity, vintage, news, entertainment, Everyone, wants, dress, already, made - Source: Dailymail — https://dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-16114191/Rise-hand-gowns-Young-stars-giving-listers-90s-dresses-new-lease-life-wore-better.html?ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490&ns_mchannel=rss - Published: 2026-09-13T06:52:23+00:00 - Read time: 4 min - Topics: fashion, red carpet, 90s style, celebrity, vintage, news, entertainment ## The new red carpet flex A daring new look no longer gets anyone talking. Wearing a famous dress from the 90s or early 00s does, and young stars have worked that out. ## Lili's butter-yellow moment Lili Reinhart, 29, turned up in Brazil in a recreation of Kate Hudson's silk gown from How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, then posted the carousel to Instagram. ## A nod only fans catch Her caption quoted the Carly Simon song Kate's character Andie Anderson sings in the 2003 film. If you know the movie, the dress and the lyric land together. > you probably think this song is about you ## A dupe, not the original Stylist Ib Abdel Nasser says it is a 2000s Caché copy sold soon after the film. The real one was custom Carolina Herrera, made with costume designer Karen Patch. ## More leading ladies loading The yellow gown is the opening move. Nasser told ELLE the whole press tour for The Love Hypothesis is built as a run of rom-com tributes. > will be paying homage to the leading ladies of the Golden Age of rom-coms and romance films throughout ## Gigi takes the safety pins Gigi Hadid, 31, wore Elizabeth Hurley's pinned black Versace on the cover of 72 magazine, in a spread headlined Made in the 90s. She was not born when it debuted. ## A borrowed £3,000 gamble In 1994 Hurley was a total unknown scrambling for something to wear hours before Hugh Grant's Four Weddings And A Funeral premiere. > I'd never heard the name Versace before and it looked pretty precarious ## One dress, one phone call A PR firm had exactly one option left. She took the Tube to collect it and carried the most photographed dress of the decade home like a corner shop purchase. > handed to me in a little white plastic bag ## Front page by morning She tested it by touching her toes and stretching up, decided nothing moved, and galloped down the stairs. Roughly a day later she was famous. > The next day we were on the front page of every newspaper ## Maya Jama got there first Gigi is not the first to redo it. The Love Island presenter wore a cut-out version held together with giant gold safety pins at the 2024 MTV EMAs. ## Maisie raids her screen mum Playing Sandra Bullock's daughter Antonia in Practical Magic 2, Maisie Williams, 29, built her whole press tour out of Sandra's nineties red carpets. > I knew I wanted to pay homage to her film mother, who has epitomised the rebellious energy of the 1990s ## Two Sandras, remade A custom Ellie Misner satin gown copied the red cut Sandra wore to Forces Of Nature in 1999. The next night came the black off-shoulder from Infamous in 2006. ## Even the film wardrobe counts For another promo day Maisie wore a Paul Smith piece echoing the lace-trimmed floral dress Sandra wore in the original 1998 Practical Magic. ## Mama's closet is open Sandra rounded up the London looks on Instagram and praised stylist Dino Bonacic for bringing them back to life. The person being copied signed off on it. > My Antonia girl, you can raid Mama's closet anytime ## Zendaya set the pace At the 2026 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards she wore a vintage one-shouldered Caché flower dress. Fans clocked it as Carrie Bradshaw's opening scene gown. ## Whitney wore it first Patricia Field sourced the dress for the 2008 Sex And The City movie, but it was already a copy. The Caché mini replicates a Eugene Alexander gown Whitney Houston wore on Life's cover in 1987. ## Sydney does Angelina At the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Sydney Sweeney, 28, revived the cream Marc Bouwer gown Angelina Jolie wore to the Academy Awards twenty years earlier. ## Copied to the last pendant The plunging halter was only half of it. She matched the shawl, the accessories and a similar stack of layered pendant necklaces from the 2004 original. ## Why Gen Z looks back Stylist Lisa Talbot says it is nostalgia plus fatigue. These are clothes from an era of personal style rather than weekly trends, and they arrive with a story attached. > Gen Z have grown up surrounded by constant newness ## The nepo baby version Carys Douglas turned 21 in the Emanuel Ungaro slip her mother Catherine Zeta-Jones wore to the 1999 MTV Awards. Valentina Paloma Pinault hit the 2023 Oscars at 15 in Salma Hayek's red Isaac Mizrahi. ## Key takeaway A dress with a past now outranks anything new on a red carpet, because Gen Z would rather borrow a story than buy one.