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...head to Quiapo, where I wade through a sea of stalls selling bootleg DVDs and used electronics, pirated porn and secondhand bridal gowns. Exotic fare abounds, but I opt for a simple treat from childhood: a bananacue, or banana speared with a skewer, caramelized in deep-fried sugar. As I savor the sweet, sticky snack, I listen to a sermon blasted from a loudspeaker by a church decorated like a pastel Easter egg; in front of me is a row of old women selling religious figurines along with herbal potions that claim to do everything from curing coughs to terminating...
...topics and potentially alienating vocabulary, the site developed a following, at one point as large as a thousand readers per day.On the back of the blog’s success, Bressman landed a job at The New York Observer. He started off blogging for the paper, inexplicably, for its Bridal Blog. Knowing little about weddings, Bressman wrote about “love in general” and found himself “really castigated by a group of bridezillas,” he says. After making a post with no references to weddings at all, the “Comments?...
...fabric is 90% of the mental work in design," says Miuccia Prada, who most recently made a bold statement on the runway with duchess satin, a fabric most commonly used today in bridal dresses. "It's where I spend most of my time because the quality of the fabric is fundamental. When I get the fabric done, the show is done. I am at ease...
...season," says Sprenger, when asked about the store's less triumphant partnerships. Philippe Starck's line was something of a storm in a kooky teacup. In contrast, the architect Michael Graves signed on nine years ago and is still going strong. Next up from Mizrahi: a budget-priced bridal collection...
Keeping the dreams going requires a lot of corporate-sponsorship pitches, auction galas and creative fund-raising tactics. Making Memories, for instance, has sold nearly 10,000 wedding dresses donated from manufacturers, designers, bridal shops and brides themselves during its Brides Against Breast Cancer sales in dozens of U.S. cities annually...