A look back at how Pattie Boyd deftly executed city hall beauty for her 1966 wedding ceremony with George Harrison.
relationship was the stuff of rock ’n’ roll dreams—aside, of course, from its famously rocky end, which saw Boyd leave Harrison for his best friend, Eric Clapton. More than half a century later, their stylish take on urban wedding dressing remains iconic.
“I bought a Mary Quant pinky-red shot-silk dress, which came to just above the knee, and I wore it with creamy stockings and pointy red shoes,” she writes in her autobiography,. “On top, because it was January and cold, I wore a red fox-fur coat, also by Mary Quant, that George gave me. She made George a beautiful black Mongolian lamb coat.”
In retrospect, it wasn’t just Boyd’s classic crimson look that was memorable—her decidedly ’60s bridal beauty look during a press reception the day after was, too. The shampoo girl-turned-model, who was photographed by the likes of David Bailey and Terence Donovan, and featured on the cover of numerous issues of, with her champagne blonde lengths flipped at the ends. Offsetting her lash-grazing, side-swept asymmetrical bangs, she wore an impossibly chic, side-leaning knit burgundy beret.
Boyd’s romantic allure—immortalized forever in the Harrison-penned Beatles ballad “Something,” which Frank Sinatra deemed “the greatest love song of the 21st century”—and supernatural beauty are hard to live up to, but her wedding day look serves as a visual manifesto for how to deftly execute beauty for a city hall–inspired civil ceremony: Get a directional blowout, throw on a beret, and leave yourself an hour to draw on scene-stealing cat-eyes.
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