Carolina Herrera – An Award Winning Fashion Designer
Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan fashion designer who began designing clothes in 1980. She is best known for the bridal gown line she founded in 1987. Herrera has won a wide variety of awards for her designs, including the “Womenswear Designer of the Year” in 2004, the “Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2008 and […]
Lace Wedding Gowns, Silhouettes for Every Bride
With the boom in lace, mermaid gowns, or fit and flare gowns (fitted at the top, flares out around the knee area) can be found in all lace. It is a dramatic look that is…
Claire Pettibone – The Wedding Dress Designer for You
If you are a romantic, vintage or whimsical bride, Claire Pettibone is the wedding dress designer for you. Claire Pettibone studied fashion design at Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. In 1994, Claire, along with her partner and husband, Guy Toley, started their own wedding gown line. Their flagship shop is located in […]
Accessorize Your Wedding Dress
Though the wedding dress tends to get the most attention, it is the accessories that really make the bride’s wedding day look memorable. With the right accessories, such as jewelry, head wear, wedding veils, shoes, and the like, a bride can take a wedding dress ensemble from beautiful to stunning. Accessories are designed to complement […]
Wedding Dress Timeline for the Bride
Now you are simply waiting for your wedding gown to arrive and should be shopping for the rest of your bridal accessories. Have fun looking at jewelry head pieces…
Pronovias – Lace Shop to Wedding Dress Empire
Originally founded in Barcelona as a lace shop in 1922, Pronovias has expanded into a wedding dress empire across the globe. In 1964, the family-run store began selling custom made bridal gowns, and by 1968 the small shop had become the first bridal salon in Spain. Today, Pronovias still works as a family-run business, though […]
Vera Wang – The Red Carpet Designer
Vera Wang started her career as an editor within Vogue Magazine, where she worked for an incredible 16 years. She then took a two year leave of absence from Vogue and moved to Paris, before continuing her career at Ralph Lauren. Vera then decided to open her own business in the early 1990’s, but the […]
Amsale – World Famous Wedding Dress Designer
In 1985, while Amsale was searching for a wedding dress for her upcoming wedding to film executive Neil Brown, she found that she was unable to find anything that presented itself as a simple yet elegant wedding dress with an air of sophistication. This spawned her idea to begin creating wedding dresses, and this look […]