Celebrity Style
Gillian Anderson Says She “Manifested” Her Viral Vagina Dress
Her “vulvaliciously chic” gown took the internet by storm.
Gillian Anderson has revealed more details about her vagina dress. The actor, who currently stars in Netflix’s Scoop, made quite the impression at the 2024 Golden Globes, where she walked the red carpet in a custom Gabriela Hearst gown that was memorably covered with vagina-inspired embroidery.
She wasn’t anticipating the ivory dress to make “such a splash,” she said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 3. “It was an idea, it happened. It was manifested.”
When Colbert praised the gown’s “wonderful embroidery,” he noted that making the dress “must’ve taken forever.” Anderson responded, “Forever. Many, many, many hours, many vaginas — vulvas.” (She told Extra it took 150 hours of embroidering.)
She’s talked before about her decision to wear the dress, telling Deadline there were “so many reasons.” She’s also referred to it as “brand appropriate,” given her role as sex therapist Dr. Jean Milburn on Netflix’s Sex Education.
In an interview with British Vogue, she talked about the dress, which was a collaboration between designer Gabriela Hearst and Anderson’s beverage brand, G-spot. “The mantra of my brand G-Spot being to ‘prioritize pleasure,’ I wanted to bring this element into the design,” she told the magazine. “I’m so pleased Gabriela was up for the challenge!”
Hearst also shared details of the “vulvaliciously chic” gown on Instagram. “Gillian wears an ivory wool silk structure cady corset gown with custom embroidery,” she wrote in the caption. “Made entirely in New York City, the embroidery was crafted in the garment district and the gown was assembled at the in-house studio.”
