Salma Hayek says she wore a men's suit from Hugo Boss for her first red carpet because 'no one else gave me anything to wear'

• Salma Hayek Pinault spoke to W magazine about her first red-carpet experience in the '90s.
• The actor said that at the time, she didn't have connections to designers, aside from Hugo Boss.

Salma Hayek Pinault said that she wore a men's suit on her first red carpet because she had limited designer options.

"I didn't have any connections," Hayek Pinault recalled in an interview with W magazine for their fourth annual TV Portfolio, released Tuesday.

"The only connection I had was to somebody I knew at Hugo Boss, so I wore a man's suit because no one else gave me anything to wear," the "Black Mirror" star said.

Hayek Pinault was referencing her appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of the film "The Birdcage," which took place at Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, California in March 1996.

For the event, she wore a black shirt with a dark-colored suit.

Hayek Pinault, who rose to fame on the Mexican telenovela "Teresa" before heading to America in the '90s for more acting opportunities, opened up about the experience in a 2021 interview with Vogue India.

The actor said that it was difficult for her to find designers interested in dressing her because she wasn't well-known in Hollywood.

"I'm Mexican. I'm also very short, which doesn't help with the weight and doesn't help with the design," she said. "But you know, I was ingenious. I took chances. I met someone at Hugo Boss, who was the only connection I had, so I wore man suits for a while."