If we talk about wedding dresses, then not to remember the work of Vera Wong is simply impossible. She radically changed the idea of wedding fashion and still amazes brides with striking collections of wedding dresses. Models are characterized by sophistication and elegance, airiness and magic, as well as thoughtfulness of images to the smallest detail.
Biography
The future great designer Vera Wong was born in 1949. Her father was a large and successful entrepreneur in New York. From childhood, the girl was seriously engaged in figure skating, but she was not destined to become a star of ice despite many awards and occupied first places.
After graduation, there was Sarah Lawrence College, in which a young girl comprehended the history of art. Education at this college was not in vain, opening up to Vera the fashion world, which she learned through the magazine Vogue. Here a young girl worked for 17 years.
Maybe she continued to prepare the fashionable gloss for release, if not for one fateful event in her life - her own wedding. Like other brides, Vera faced the problem of choosing a wedding dress.
Despite the large selection, numerous offers and unlimited financial opportunities, the girl was not able to find the right outfit for herself. The only way Vera could find for herself was to create a dress on her own. This was her first step in creating her collection of wedding dresses. Then there was the opening of a wedding salon.
Features
No bride can consciously abandon the dress that was created by Vera Wong. But why are they so attractive? Let's get it together.
- How many models would not be created, but each is inherent in uniqueness, absolute originality and amazing unusualness. Dresses, like leaves on trees - do not look for how many, but you cannot find two identical ones.
- In each outfit, to varying degrees, there is a unique chic, light femininity, tenderness and unobtrusive elegance. The presence of a dress from Vera Wong dooms the image of the bride to become the most beautiful.
- The use of expensive natural fabrics of the highest quality is the first invariable principle of Vera's work.
- Every detail and all jewelry decorations are made by hand.
- A variety of models and styles allows each bride to choose her outfit.
- In his works, the designer breaks stereotypes and cancels traditions. The most unusual colors are found in wedding collections: black, red, green and burgundy.
Collections 2011
Vera Wong releases two collections each year. The 2011 spring-summer collection is filled with feminine silhouettes that were created using small floral elements, voluminous details and individual petals. The used tulle and organza looked very harmonious in delicate images. Color solutions were diverse: from white and all kinds of cream to silver and seductive lilac.
The next collection of the same year surprised fans of the great designer with a lack of white. Dresses looked more like seductive desserts. The main decorations were satin black ribbons, and the heads of the models were decorated with decorative elements. Dresses for the most part were created from light or flowing materials.
Collections 2012
The inspiration for the new season seems to have been the outfits worn by the Japanese geisha. In dresses there are many frills, ribbons, framing the waist, other delicate and touching elements. There are no white dresses in this collection, but there are many variations of peach, ash gray and pistachio shades.
The second collection of 2012 became a real sensation in the world of wedding fashion, since the entire collection was devoted to black dresses. Long models in rich black color looked breathtaking, unusual and individual. Diluted this gamut of dresses in a nude shade.
Collections 2013
Spring 2013 with the help of Vera Wong was filled with passion, which was expressed in rich red tones. Flounces, unusual draperies and numerous frills decorated dresses.
She was replaced by a collection entirely made in ivory color. The combination of silk and ivory was perfect. The addition was lace and ribbons that added elegance to the already beautiful outfits.
This collection was saturated with femininity and romance.
Collections 2014
The 2014 spring-summer collection appeared in a combination of black and white. Black gloves in combination with snow-white dresses looked unusual. The corsets were attended by seductive and sometimes unusual cutouts. Some dresses were decorated with geometric elements that resembled seat belts.
This collection is the exact opposite of what we are all used to seeing in classic wedding looks.
But the autumn-winter collection again brings us back to tenderness and femininity. The dresses looked like flowers from the Garden of Eden.
Collections 2015
The spring-summer collection of 2015 was dedicated to decadence and Gothic fashion. Here the emphasis is on minimalism, sensuality, some negligence.
Vera Wong used flowing lines, delicate lace and white. It is difficult to describe this beauty in words; it is better to see photos of models.
Collections 2016
Daydreaming and some naivety can be traced in the new collections from Vera Wong. It offers a grunge style, where asymmetrical silhouettes intertwine with antique stylized decor.
Combination dresses made of tulle, lace mermaids with a train, minimalist silk floor patterns and translucent straight silhouettes are complemented by brutal black boots, sunglasses and chains. Sequins and appliqués from flowers also serve as decoration for the outfit.
Celebrities in dresses
Star brides often turn to Vera Wong for exclusive outfits. Initially, Vera was popular in America, but after the wedding of Victoria Beckham, who also used the services of a designer, they also started talking about the talent of the designer in England. The whole world admired an ivory satin dress, in which the bodice did not have a strapless, and the skirt was magnificent and turned into a chic train.
A dress for Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the American president, could serve as the ideal of tenderness. Numerous draperies on the bodice and skirt, a sparkling wide belt at the waist and perfectly matched accessories - the bride was simply luxurious and divine.
Jennifer Lopez did not stint and chose for herself the most expensive dress from Vera Wong, which cost 320 thousand dollars.
Avril Lavigne surprised everyone with her outfit. Such an unpredictable and peculiar person was expected to see the corresponding dress, but it was classic, delicate and traditional.
Britney Spears wanted to abandon the finished dress, the creation of which was spent tens of meters of the best satin. But she came to her senses in a timely manner and delighted her fans with a charming dress in white.
Jessica Simpson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ivanka Trump, Sharon Stone, Hilary Duff and others looked perfect and harmonious in a delicate dress from Vera Wong.
And even the creation of some film works could not do without the participation of outfits from Vera Wong. For example, Sarah Jessica Parker in the TV series “Sex and the City” was dressed in a dress provided by the great fashion designer. In the film “War of the Brides,” the two main characters were dressed in outfits created by Vera.
Vera Wong has so many fans around the world! And this is not surprising, because her collections have their own face.