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Born in New York Manhattan, Vera Wang grew up amongst the latest fashionable trends. After working her way up from her small boutique in Carlyle Hotel, she became famous for her elegant wedding dresses and ready to wear outfits. Along with her hardwork ethic Vera Wang continues to produce fresh designs and still remains an inspiration.
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Modeled by Madeline Year 2014
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Madeline Ivory V-neck Chantilly lace soft mermaid gown with guipure lace. When we think of a bride in lace, it automatically conjures up a romantic, flowery vision. But with Madeline, I wanted to challenge that idea. I came up with a way to work with lace in a way that felt new to me, to achieve a bridal look with a groundbreaking aesthetic. Instead of using a single type of more traditional floral lace, I conceived of Madeline as a collage of three different laces. They all meet where the bodice meets the wasit. I’ve sliced the bodice into a plunging V and placed a single panel of tulle-backed, fernpatterned guipure lace in the center. As your eye is drawn downward to the point of the V, a surprise awaits—a softly sculpted peplum of geometric web lace that fans out from the waist. Though the peplum is an optional piece, I think the mixture of these three types of lace is what makes the dress feel so novel. It’s a way of turning lace into something distinctly modern and architectural.
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Modeled by Noelle 9 Year 2014
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Noelle Strapless silk mermaid gown with organza flange detail accented by faille blossom, pleated organza and floral beaded embroidery. Noelle’s lines are most illustrative of her beauty: The lines created by the tissue organza as its drapes and criss-crosses the body; the lines in the crisply pleated faille blossom that connects the bodice to the skirt; and finally the lines of the ladder pleating that cascade to the hemline. They make the dress feel very precise, yet allow for a certain kind of organic, soft movement—when the bride takes her first few steps down the aisle, the dress has this really full, fluttery look. The contrast between light and dark as well as smooth and textural is just as important in this gown. A nude lining in the bodice provides a distinctive canvas for layering tissue organza on top of it; the shadows in the draping become much more dramatic. Despite all of Noelle’s decoration and detailing, the gown remains light and airy. She’s a bouquet of delicate flowers, effortlessly tossed into the wind—sheer freedom!
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Modeled by Lisa Year 2013
Silhouette 3
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Lisa Draped tulle and Chantilly lacebodice ball gown with crystal and organza embroidery details With Lisa, I wanted to find a new way of looking at decoration, something that traditionally speaks to a classical bridal vocabulary. Throughout the Fall 2013 colection, there are the invincible elements of an heirloom wedding gown lace, beading, and draping. The bodice begins with Chantilly lace, the same classic lace that’s featured elsewhere in the collection,and then it’s covered with a layer of embroidery work: a complicated but very soft, very subtle design in pearl and crystal. It shimmers and gleams in that setting of lace, and this pattern works its way across the bust on a diagonal path, for a touch of asymmetry. This same cluster embroidery continues down into the drop-waist skirt, on the bride’s right side, just enough to give an accent and a bit of interest to the skirt. This is a gathered tulle skirt, full of volume, full of layers of tulle, and the pearl and crystal clusters just break up the volume, it just a bit, from the right angle position.
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Bridal Collection released in the Fall 2014 Modeled by Nicolette
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Nicolette Strapless circle cluster, butterfly lace ball gown with tumbled tulle accented by organic flower detail and floral beaded embroidery. Nicolette is a dress where I’ve really explored all the different ways to veil and reveal highimpact details, It’s one of my favorite technique of enbellishment because it creates a more subtle, sophisticated effect. So there is Chantilly circle lace veiling lace butterfly-shaped Chantilly, then tulle veils that. Finally, a large decorative tissue organza flower is both concealed and then revealed. I have draped all the layers of tulle, in a deliberately messy way. Instead of crinoline, I’ve used bands of horsehair to frame the tulle and give it definition where it’s tacked. All that bounce and frothiness makes the skirt very bold, but the light and space it creates between the layers also allows you to better appreciate the lace underneath all the tulle. Floating throughout the skirt is a new type of lace for me, a Chantilly crocheted in the shape of butterflies. It’s very crisp and architectural, but beautifully softened with all that veiling.
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20 Bridal Collection/Iconic Modeled by Margaret
Silhouette 5
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Margaret Light ivory and black strapless multi lace gown with hand pieced Chantilly lace appliqué details. Margaret is a gown that encapsulates the best of both worlds for me, it truly is a fairy tale gown, yet it has all of the architectural precision that was such an important part of my vision for the Spring collection. The romantic fairy tale aspect is easy to spot in Margaret, that fabulous full ball gown, with its diaphanous layers of tulle. There’s black chrysanthemum lace at the sweetheart neckline, graphically cut out into shapes and placed like fallen blooms over a very bold, almost avant-garde geometric web lace pattern, which is applied to the bodice until it comes to a point in the waist. The grand finalé of lace comes after that, with all those carefully placed, hand-pieced Chantilly lace appliqué details floating along the top of the skirt. Chantilly lace is a very traditional lace of leaves and flowers, I think its an exciting counterpoint to that almost futuristic, fractal-like web lace.
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“It was brick by brick, client by client, store by store. It’s been a trip of passion, but it has not been a quick trip. Nor has it been easy. And that is the truth.” - Vera Wang