Gillian Anderson wore a vulva-covered gown – designed by Gabriela Hearst – at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards, and a second one had to make a new one so it fit Gillian’s Madame Tussauds waxwork figure.
Gillian Anderson’s iconic vulva-covered gown was reproduced for her Madame Tussauds wax figure.
The 57-year-old actress donned the memorable custom Gabriela Hearst outfit – which featured “hundreds” of motifs of the female reproductive organ stitched onto it – at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards.
And the floor-length number had to be replicated so that it fit the lifelike, three-dimensional sculpture of Gillian, which was unveiled in London in November.
Appearing on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday (03.12.25), Gillian said: “It’s a dress that Gabriela Hearst made for me to wear to the Golden Globes, and it has hundreds of vulvas.
“Many, many artisans took many hours to create those vulvas on my dress. The actual dress was a piece of couture, and the same woman who created it created a second one to live at Madame Tussauds.”
In November, the waxwork was unveiled at Madame Tussauds London, and Gillian could not believe how realistic it looked.
She said: “The weirdest thing is that it looks exactly like me in person, and it looks nothing like me at the same time.
“Sometimes you stand in front of it, and you gasp because it feels like it’s alive, it’s looking back at me. It’s really creepy – in a good way creepy.”
Gillian’s family was “freaked out” when they first saw it – but they loved the wax figure.
The star – who has daughter Piper, 31, with her ex-husband Clyde Klotz, 64, and sons Oscar, 19, and Felix, 17, with her former spouse, Mark Griffiths – recalled: “We were all freaked out, but we all liked it at the same time. We were gasping.”
Gillian said her headline-making Golden Globes dress “represents empowerment for women, celebrating bodily autonomy and freedom from shame”.
And she wanted to re-create that look for her waxwork so people could “revel in the audacity of it”.
In a press release about the wax figure, Gillian said: “When I got the call from Madame Tussauds to say they wanted to create a wax figure of me, I thought, ‘Really? Who would want to see a figure of me on a carpet rather than as a character?’
“Then I thought about this dress and realised, ‘Yes, it makes sense to re-create this moment at the Golden Globes.’
“The dress became a much bigger conversation than even I had anticipated, with so many people reacting positively for different reasons.
“I think this dress represents empowerment for women, celebrating bodily autonomy and freedom from shame. I wanted to give people the chance to stand next to it and revel in the audacity of it.”
Gillian Anderson vulva-covered gown recreated for Madame Tussauds waxwork
