Recession-Proof Wedding at Vera Wang
A bride-to-be might worry for months about making her wedding day perfect, and that includes finding the ultimate dress. But flash forward to the end of the night on her wedding day, to the champagne soaked floors, disheveled hair and a crinkled dress – yet she’s still looking radiant – and you see that there’s a real case to be made for imperfection.
A not-so-perfect, artfully mismatched look was the theme of Vera Wang’s Spring 2010 bridal collection, which she presented in her New York showroom.
Wang’s wedding gowns mixed and matched fabrics like silk with asymmetrically draped tulle, added mismatched bows tied in all different directions and tacked together sweeping mille-feuille layers, turning the back of one ball gown into a walking cross-section of the Grand Canyon. “Mixed-media” as Wang put it.
“It’s as though they were tossed in a washing machine,” said Wang, and then, one imagines, were tumble dried. “They’re youthful and more organic than most gowns,” she said.
