After a rocky attempt to get cool, Banana Republic is returning to its old, staid ways. Which is why I ask the following question: is the dress I was told to purchase in my email inbox today part of the new BR or the old BR?
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year.
I did not expect to give any shits about veils, to be honest. They are just one or a few layers of airy fabric, and they are usually only available in like, three colors, and like, four styles, and all you do is poke them into the back of your head for like, 30 minutes, and for what reason? I never thought of veils at…
It’s a seasonal ritual, at this point—no sooner does summer wind down than the Internet is flooded with revealing Halloween costume takes on current events. Sexy Cecil the Lion? Yup. Sexy Pizza Rat? Check! Sexy Donald Trump? Absolutely.
Of all the unpleasant things that can happen after a wedding (not counting divorce), an expensive wedding gown being accidentally carted off as garbage ranks pretty high. Especially if that gown is a pricey Oscar de la Renta.
If you were to ask me about my dress shopping right when I’d started the process, I’d probably gush all over your face about the incredible power of seeing oneself as wholly beautiful for the first time, the unprecedented bonding opportunity between mother and daughter that is picking out the latter’s first-ever…
Good news: Jennifer Aniston married Justin Theroux in a secret ceremony in early August and is no longer sad. Bad news: We have no idea what she wore! :(
For every oooh and ahhh we reflexively burp up over Western bridal designs, the intricate and colorful wedding style of South Asia puts our stuff to shame. To wit: India Bridal Fashion Week just wrapped up, and the gowns, saris, and lehenga cholis sent down the runway in New Delhi were a hundred times more delightful…
Over the course of three short days last week, my mother and I went shopping for dresses, both hers and mine. It was my first crack at it, and we trotted around Manhattan and Brooklyn at a fever pitch: five appointments for me, four hours spent looking for a dress for her, and countless moments spent in the throes of…
Here comes la mariée!
I would think that if you tried to sell an unworn wedding dress with a wildly depressing description—which is actually written from the dress’s perspective—you might have a hard time finding a buyer.
On Saturday, June 13th, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden will marry Sofia Hellqvist in a lavish ceremony to be remembered for the ages (because if there’s one thing we know about Swedes, it’s that they like to party and also Ace of Base). What better way to celebrate than by looking at the beautiful dresses all of us…
Before I met my fiancé, I believed that true love existed in clothes and not much else. A silk blouse that flowed softly like a nice dinner date, a floral sundress that swung at the hips like the prom dance I never had, a pair of tight little shorts that hugged my butt hot as sex—I hunted these things, but not love.
Here’s something you don’t usually see on Say Yes to the Dress: Kleinfeld, the enormous bridal salon that serves as New York’s other ground zero, has a consultant on staff who’s dedicated to working with brides whose religions require some covering up.
On the latest episode of HBO’s T&A tour de force Game of Thrones, we once again saw poor Sansa Stark unhappily enter a marriage over which she has zero control, this time to violent psychopath Ramsay Bolton. Bummer, but look at that dress! Perfect for a woodsy winter wedding, no?
Once one of the top stores to buy clothing inspired by field-tromping dutch milkmaids and vintage squares of knotted organic fabric for ludicrous prices, Anthropologie has fallen into some hard times. One bright spot for the Anthro brand? Bridesmaids love BHLDN, the store’s bridal spinoff.
While watching celebrities arrive at the Met Gala, did you find yourself asking, “Which of those dresses would look best on me?” It’s not uncommon to as those kinds of questions when seeing so many different styles of clothing at once, but forget about dresses you should wear. Have you ever wondered which dress you…
We were joined recently by Kpoene’ Kofi-Nicklin, the Creative Director of Mignonette Bridal in Chicago, who agreed to answer all the wedding dress questions our readers could think of.
Far more fun than gawking at the gowns for bridal fashion week is imagining what kind of person would wear them. Shows like Bridezillas and Say Yes to the Dress have magnified our curiosity in bridal archetypes, and the very specific, very crucial ways a bridal gown reflects its wearer. If your personal style is the…
