The love affair between a bride and her dress is an intimate obligation. As the bride and groom plan their weddings, the bride is off on her own to find the one. Often it’s not only one, but perhaps two, or three gowns they develop deep sentiments for. Sometimes, it’s even six—take Hailey Bieber, who opted for six defining ensembles for her wedding weekend.
As a model, it is often your job to work for the designer. You are instrumental in showcasing designs and to captivate the audience. However, when it comes to a model’s wedding—the tables seemingly turn. It is now the designer’s job to cater to the model and create a quintessentially personal world of the model’s imagination. Often a relationship between model and designer is sacred, and this love now takes form in the dress of their dreams. Take John Galliano for instance, whose personal friendships with the '90s supermodels resulted in a fashionable collaboration, with Kate Moss, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford all opting for a Galliano gown for their big day.
A model’s wedding day is an opportunity to play with designers whom they admire while adding a personal touch to their gown. Some go all out on theme—take Taylor Hill’s bohemian-chic approach to bridal dress, with the bride suiting a custom off-the-shoulder Etro gown by Mario de Vincenzo, or Lily Standefer’s campy Texan and French infusion, where she wore a Glenn Martin’s custom gown, which was fashionably in suit to her “Texan Marie Antoinette” aesthetic. Others chose a more traditional sensibility, like Chrissy Teigan and Lily Aldridge who both opted for a Vera Wang gown, or Georiga Fowler and Barbara Sprouse who chose a modern approach in Vivienne Westwood— both designers a classic for custom wedding couture.
From signature Vivienne Westwood structural boning to the contemporary quirkiness of a Danielle Frankel gown, we look into what models wore on their special day, and how they styled it with their own personal flair.
