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Beautiful Styles form Amsale Aberra

With a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology and after having a frustrating time finding her own wedding dress for her 1985 wedding, Amsale Aberra, who is today one of the top wedding designers in the world, began her career custom making wedding dresses. A simple stage at first, a mere advertisement in the back of a bridal magazine, however, the orders did begin. And, today Amsale is renown around the world for her quality and craftsmanship.

Many celebrities have taken advantage of Amsale Aberra artistic creations such as Trista Rehn aka the Bachelorette and Alyson Hannigan. Others that have enjoyed her creations include Julia Roberts, Lisa Kudrow, Halle Berry, and Salma Hayek.

Amsale Aberra is noted for a classic yet modern style. From the small advertisement in the back of the bridal magazine, today Amsale Aberra has developed into four lines – Amsale Bridal, Christos, Amsale Evening, and Kenneth Pool all featured in her New York showroom.

Amsale Aberra’s wedding dresses cost between $3000 and $12000 and found at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, and Neiman Marcus.

Beautiful Styles from Alfred Sung

With a background of studies in Paris, Alfred Sung- a Chinese-born Canadian, has become one of the top wedding fashion designers in the world.

With a beautifully tasteful style Alred Sung has created a stunning crafted signature bridal collection that is comprised of silhouettes from classic elegance to romantic bridal gown. Materials include silk essence chiffons, Angel Tulle, chiffons, and organzas. The gowns are absolutely stunning and can be found at many bridal boutiques.

Beautiful Styles from Vera Wang

With a past of sixteen years at Vogue as Senior Fashion director, and a period with Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, set into the bridal industry creating her own fashions. And, beautiful at that.

In 1990 she opened a luxury salon, showcasing her bridal collection. Quickly, the world took notice and Vera Lang was on top in the bridal industry.

Today Vera Wang has expanded her brand to include jewelry, shoes, eyewear, fragrance and a home collection with Wedgewood. All marked with her elegant and sophisticated style. Most of her dresses range from $2000 to $7000 and can be found at upscale bridal salons, and department stores including Neiman Marcus, Barney’s and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Little in this world is as glamorous and elegant as a celebrity’s wedding dress. There is a reason that top fashion experts and popular wedding dress designers fight their hardest for the chance to have their product lines modeled by the lofty, well-known individuals that we all look up to. A celebrity does as much for the elegance and want of the design as the flowing cloth of the dress does for the celebrity.

Monique Lhuillier is one of the companies that has had the privilege of dressing some of the most popular starlets of our time. Wherever the royal red carpet is rolled out, chances are, one of Monique Lhuillier’s designs can be found there. Rock and Roll bad girl Pink dawned an ivory white and black gown, Lost actress Emilie de Ravin wore a beautiful lacy and elegant long gown and both of Britney Spears’s dresses were designed by Monique Lhuillier.

In her wedding to Kevin Federline, Britney Spears also requested that her five burgundy bridesmaids dressed also be tailored by Lhuillier. Shortly after creating both of Britney’s dresses, bridesmaids gowns, and both the bride’s and groom’s mothers dresses, Monique Lhuillier also designed Christine Baumgartner’s gown for her wedding in 2004 to actor Kevin Costner.

Another famous designer to the stars is a company that specializes in evening wear and an old but modern look to their designs. Badgley Mischka is a frequent request of not only celebrity weddings but also formal dress for the Oscars. Madonna and Calista Flockhart have often been dressed in Mischka’s finest styles and these elegant designs have even been graced by the Bush twins’ gowns for the Inaugural Ball.

For decades Badgley Mischka has been a leader in celebrity dress. Their beautifully beaded embroidery and traditional 1940’s mixed with the flamboyance of today’s styles have also been provided to actresses such as Trista Rehn, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tori Spelling and Carmen Electra.

Our final stylish focus of the day is the fabulous and intricate designs of one; Vera Wang. Opening their luxurious business in the 1990’s, their first fashion show was made exclusively of their wedding collection.

Perhaps the most well-known wearer of her designs is Jenifer Lopez. However, she is hardly the only one to wear the elegance of a Vera Wang dress. Jessica Simpson, Mariah Carey, Holly Hunter, Sharon Stone, Karenna Gore and the extravagant Uma Thurman have all been clients of a beautiful and custom made dress of Vera Wang.

Back in the year 2006, Nicole Kidman married Keith Urban in a truly fairy tale wedding ceremony. The thing that added an extra zing to the whole wedding was the ravishingly beautiful Nicole in her wedding gown.

Leading French Designer, Nicolas Ghesquiere, who is the creative director of Paris Fashion House Balenciaga, had designed her dress for the d- day. The beautiful looking gown was of the romantic ivory color, with one shouldered puff sleeve. All the fabric was made of silk and had the ruffled embroidered and organza fabric looks because of the overall stylization. The gown had a beautifully pleated empire style Cornelli lacework.

Her look was thoroughly complimented with the bunch of white flowers that she held while walking down the aisle. The gown actually made her look like a complete fairy in true sense of the word.

Well, though the tag of the four specially made custom dresses for Nicole was not leaked out in the market but sources claim that the design and the amount of minute attention paid to every detail on the gown must have cost her about a million dollar, but it was definitely totally worth it!

Wedding dresses have been at the center of focus in many movies. A wedding dress is meant to make a bride look great, and has a special significance of beginning a new life as a married woman in grandeur. In many Hollywood movies, wedding dresses have been paid special attention and the styling has been borrowed by many of the top wedding dress designers today.

The fabulous, cocktail-length white satin wedding dress worn by Jennifer Lopez in The Wedding Planner, designed by Vera Wang, stole the show among all the gowns that were featured in the movie. The dress had a strong Givenchy influence from the early 1960s, which was the preferred style of Jackie Kennedy. The simple, street-length satin outfit is the perfect inspiration for an older or second-time bride.

The wedding dress worn by Keira Knightley in Love Actually is a true reflection of the 21st century bride. The netted portion of the dress that reveals Keira’s stomach was designed escpecially to show off her navel piercing. Several dress designers have adapated the illusion-netting design after seeing Kiera show off the design in the movie. The delicate dress designed by Joanna Johnston, the lace gown looks more like a slip dress than a wedding dress.

Julia Roberts, in Runaway Bride, wears a wedding gown by costume designer Albert Wolsky. The popular getaway gown features off-shoulder bodice and short puffed sleeves. Julia does well to carry off the design with her height. The sheer length of the skirt and train added to the romantic appeal of the setting.

The long-sleeved gown made from cream and taupe crocheted lace was a classic medieval wedding dress created by John Sruscott that won him an Academy Award for best costume design. The wedding dress worn by the Vanessa Redgrave in Camelot captured the mood of the 1960s and at the same time portrayed much of the designs from the medieval period.

French designer Hubert de Givenchy has the distinction of desigining Audrey Hepburn’s wedding dress in real life and in Funny Face as well. The elegant wedding dress of close-fitting bodice with chiffon overlay and white satin cap sleeves was perfect for Ms. Hepburn’s long and graceful arms. The dress featured a nipped waist with a full white tulle skirt that is ideal for any delicate figure.
There are several wedding dress designers that showcase some of the best designs and styles in the industry. Many move on to becoming famous costume designers in Hollywood as well.