Written by Oscar Holland, CNN
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Pamela Anderson made her sanction successful red. In fact, the swimwear she and her "Baywatch" co-stars wore successful the 1990s is truthful iconic that Pantone has since officially named the code "Baywatch Red."
So determination was, perhaps, nary amended colour the 55-year-old prima could person worn to the premiere of Netflix's new documentary astir her life, "Pamela, a Love Story."
Channeling her breakout quality C.J. Parker, Anderson arrived astatine the streaming giant's Tudum Theater successful Los Angeles wearing a scoop cervix formal by Indian American decorator Naeem Khan. The figure-hugging gown whitethorn not person been the precise shadiness that Pantone immortalized to people the series' 30th day successful 2019, but it nevertheless evoked images of Parker patrolling LA's sunny beaches — often successful dilatory question — successful a one-piece swimsuit during her 5 seasons connected the show.
Pamela Anderson wore her signature colour astatine the premiere of Netflix's "Pamela, a emotion story."
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Social media users appeared to admit the throwback. Responding to Khan's eponymous label's Instagram post, Victoria's Secret exemplary Tika Camaj described Anderson's premiere quality arsenic an "iconic moment."
Anderson's stylist, Rebecca Ramsey, meantime wrote connected Instagram aft the premiere: "She invented red."
Part of Khan's Resort 2023 collection, the beaded gown retails for conscionable nether $6,000 — making it much costly than the archetypal show-worn "Baywatch" swimsuit that sold (alongside a buoy and a signed photo) for $4,920 astatine a California auction successful 2014.
Anderson completed the look with driblet earrings and a brace of reddish satin sandals designed by idiosyncratic with a likewise beardown assertion to the colour red: Christian Louboutin.
Anderson made her sanction arsenic the lifeguard and volleyball coach, C.J. Parker, successful the 1990s deed amusement "Baywatch."
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The histrion was joined astatine the Monday lawsuit by her sons Dylan and Brandon Lee, the second having co-produced the Netflix documentary. Speaking to Access Hollywood connected the pinkish carpet, Anderson said her children had kept her informed of her ongoing presumption arsenic a benignant icon, decades aft she emerged arsenic the archetypical blonde bombshell.
"(My sons) would say, 'People emotion the full '90s look, and radical (wear reddish swimsuits as) Halloween costumes,'" Anderson said. "And I'd beryllium similar 'No, this is crazy! It's fun, it's truly nice, it's flattering. It feels afloat circle. We were conscionable having a bully clip backmost then. It was ne'er a curated experience."
Now streaming connected Netflix, "Pamela, a Love Story" charts Anderson's struggles with her pervasive enactment awesome status, arsenic good arsenic her tumultuous narration with Tommy Lee and their infamous stolen enactment tape. Released alongside a caller memoir, the documentary sees Anderson attempt, arsenic she puts it, to "take power of the communicative for the archetypal time."