“She is what people mean when they say they want to look ‘classic and timeless,’ or ‘elegant but no fuss.’” Audrey Hepburn’s influence on bridal style, in three gowns:
in a white lace dress by Givenchy, whom she first met in 1953 while shopping in his Paris atelier formake her first official wedding dress. Instead, she walked down the aisle in a tea-length Pierre Balmain–designed frock with puff sleeves, a sprightly collar, and an oversized bow in the back. With elbow-length gloves and a flower crown, Hepburn’s bridal look still feels fresh and contemporary seven decades later. “She was her own woman,” saysthe couple’s only child.
After launching his first collection as an apprentice to designer Lucien Lelong in the late 1930s, Balmain did for the likes of Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. But “knowing how quickly [the wedding preparations] went, [Hepburn’s 1954 wedding dress] was probably something off the rack,” says Hepburn Ferrer, who preserved his mother’s “Hepburn Ferrer also wonders if his mother asked Givenchy for a wedding dress. He further muses that Hepburn’s 1957wedding dress, with its signature boatneck and drop waist, was a redo. “Maybe that’s an inside joke [between Hepburn and Givenchy],” he says.
The colorful minidress is “nontraditional, for sure, but it was also very reflective of the era,” says
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