
There's a time and a place for headline-grabbing outfits, as Liz Hurley will tell you.
Last week's daring dress may have rather neatly fitted the bill for a breast cancer charity function in London. But for her hosts at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace hotel, discretion was the order of the day.
Miss Hurley, 43, struck a practised pose for waiting photographers as she arrived in a fuchsia-coloured embroidered sari.
At her side, and apparently unimpressed by the cameras, was son Damian.
Dressed in a traditional Indian kurta and gold turban, the six-year-old pulled faces for the assembled press outside the Breast Cancer Awareness event
Damian - from a brief relationship with Hollywood producer Steve Bing - attended the event alongside his millionaire stepfather Arun Nayar.
Hurley, the face of Estee Lauder's breast cancer campaign, was in Mumbai to illuminate the historic landmark in pink lights as a symbol of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The mother of one, who is renowned for her self-discipline when it comes to maintaining her size ten physique, recently admitted she was struggling to control her curves.
'I can't think of anything worse in the world than another bikini shoot,' she told an interviewer.
'It's unbearable, and I bring it all on myself. But if you sign on for the gig, sadly, you have to go and be jolly in a skimpy white bikini. So I now rely on nice photographers, and a bit of retouching.'
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