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Nicole Kidman Reveals Her Favorite Dress of All Time

Fashion icon also insists she has no plans of being a designer

By Marc Malkin Jan 16, 2015 4:00 AMTags
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Nicole Kidman has been one of Hollywood's most prolific fashion icons since, like, forever.

The Oscar winner has hit the red carpet in dresses by Dior, Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel Couture, Gucci, Balenciaga and more. She's starred in ad campaigns for Jimmy Choo, Omega and Chanel.

Even so, Kidman insists she has no design aspirations of her own.

"I think it's so hard and I bow down to designers," Kidman told me while promoting her new wildly adorable children's movie, Paddington (in theaters tomorrow). "That is a passion that you've been doing since you've been five or six years old. You've been cutting things up and I don't even know how to sew. I can't draw.

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"If I was going to do it, I want to be the person who has been doing it since I was tiny because that's all I've ever known I wanted to do," she said.

Kidman said "great designers" are like "great directors."

"I know a lot of the great designers and like directors, they live and breath it," she said. "They are absolutely pure artists and that's probably what I love about fashion when it's that pure artistically."

Her favorite dress of all time? The gorgeous Balenciaga wedding dress she wore when she married Keith Urban.

"It's the most exquisite dress and it is so beautiful," Kidman gushed. "Nicolas [Ghesquière] made it for me and it is wrapped in special paper and it will be passed on to whichever daughter wants to wear it. I still have so many of my dresses. I treat them as you would a painting because that's what they are—they're just in a different form."