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, née Halliwell—stepped onto the stage wearing an unforgettable piece: her Union Jack dress. The costume went on to make headlines across the globe, becoming a symbol for girl power and unity along the way. “I had no idea the reaction that was going to come,” Horner says. But do you know the exact story behind the look? For a newHorner remembers that year’s Brit Awards as an exciting time for the group. They had just released their debut album,, the year before.
To make her design come to life—“I’ve always been a secret fashion designer,” she joked—Horner had to get creative. “I don’t know if this is true, but you’re not meant to cut up a flag,” she said. “So I found a tea towel. My sister did it, because she’s better at sewing than I am.” On the back, they also sewed on a giant peace sign, to combat a concern that Horner’s stylist had at the time.
The following day, Horner remembers the dress causing a total frenzy. “I woke up the next morning, and that picture of me in the dress was on the front page of every newspaper,” she says. “That dress really became the identity of what girl power stood for. People would wear their own version of it. Suddenly you started seeing the British flag on a lot of fashion.”The dress lived on well after Horner left the Spice Girls in 1998.
Last year, Horner got back together with the Spice Girls once again for a slew of reunion performances. But as a newly married woman—she wed Christian Horner, the team principal of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team in 2015—she felt like wearing a new, grown-up version of it: a floor-length Union Jack gown. “I felt a sense of power to developing the dress into something different, even more timeless,” she says. “To me, it shows the evolution of being a woman.
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