Lavender Prada dress of Uma Thurman

Lavender Prada dress of Uma Thurman

Designer	Barbara Tfank for Prada
Year	1995
Type	Lavender dress

The lavender Prada dress of Uma Thurman refers to the lavender or lilac-colored Prada dress worn by Uma Thurman at the 67th Academy Awards on March 27, 1995. Bronwyn Cosgrave in her book Made for each other: fashion and the Academy Awards describes the dress as being beautifully crafted and admired for weeks afterwards by the media.^[1]The dress was designed by Barbara Tfank.^[1]The book Fashion: the century of the designer 1900-1999 credits the dress for opening up Prada in Hollywood saying, "Five years later Uma Thurman appeared at the ceremony in a lavender gown and stole, catapulting herself onto magazine covers and bringing Prada to the attention of Hollywood."^[2][3]

A year later, Nicole Kidman wore a Prada dress of an identical colour to Thurman's at the 68th Academy Awards.^[4]

References

1. Cosgrave, Bronwyn (15 December 2006). Made for each other: fashion and the Academy Awards. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-59691-087-4. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
2. Seeling, Charlotte (April 2000). Fashion: the century of the designer 1900-1999. Könemann. p. 192. ISBN 978-3-8290-2980-3. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
3. "Ten dresses you'll never forget". CNN. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
4. Cosgrave, Bronwyn (15 December 2006). Made for each other: fashion and the Academy Awards. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-59691-087-4. Retrieved 24 May 2011.