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Haute couturiers get a lot of mileage out of wedding dresses, especially Christian Lacroix. The designer celebrated his 20th year in business Tuesday with a concise and painterly collection that included a patchworked bridal dress that harkened back to Lacroix's rustic Southern roots and a short embroidered coat inspired by Watteau. Although the palette was predominantly black, Lacroix wowed the crowd with some pretty amazing color combinations - the kind that only he can get away with in an haute couture collection. My favorite was a long draped chiffon dress shaded in plum, praline, and lime and topped...
...Back on the marriage track: Alber Elbaz introduced a small collection of Lanvin bridal dresses earlier in the week. They're not haute couture, rather the opposite. "Either you start with a dream and make it commercial, or you start with a need and then make it a dream," he explained. And, according to Elbaz, what a modern bride needs is an off-the-rack wedding dress - a short beaded tunic perhaps - that they can wear on the beach in Bali when they tie the knot. Elbaz has mastered the look of French nonchalence at Lanvin without even doing couture...
...wedding last May, Amy Henry set up a few different bridal registries. One listed traditional items like glassware and linens. Another was a fund to help pay for a honeymoon to South America--which appalled Henry's mom Valerie. "The gifts are to get someone started on their new life," she says. "It's a little insulting to say 'We already have everything, so send us on an expensive vacation...
...longer comes in a box with a bow; instead, it's the gift of a once-in-a-lifetime adventure--from a guided hike through Costa Rica's Monteverde rain forest ($80) to a visit to a Kenyan Masai village to meet the chief ($50). According to Condé Nast Bridal Media, 10% of brides now register for honeymoons. Many do it because as Americans get married later in life, they are finding they already own the household items that the traditional registry was created for. At the same time, restless consumers are spending ever more money doing things vs. owning...
Today she is one of the top three bridal designers at Saks and a favorite of celebrities like Julia Roberts, who wore Aberra in the movie Runaway Bride, and Salma Hayek, for whom Aberra has designed evening gowns. "The bridal business tends to be very traditional, and she has worked toward moving it forward, yet still keeping her dresses elegant and sophisticated," says Joseph Boitano, Saks' general merchandise manager...