Each wedding dress or wedding dress tells a story
When a multimillionaire Hollywood mogul marries a red-carpet designer-to-the stars, one would expect everything to flow as best as a film script. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, as Georgina, half of the Marchesa Fashion Association, and Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, discovered on his wedding “at home” in Westport, Connecticut, last December.
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“There were some nightmare moments,” says actress and former model, who was born in Richmond, London.
“First, I had the flu. Then my , which had been sent to India to be molded by hand, turned brown. Can you believe it? The beautiful silk tulle, with very delicate threadwork folds and fans, was half white and half a dirty shade of brown. Four days before the wedding, they were for washing and bleaching it - and prayer. And then everything had to be re-folded.
“So in the day while we were exchanging rings, I suddenly remembered that when I had gone to the bathroom just before, he had made the hooks and eyes on the top of the corset, but I had not made up her skirt. I had nightmare visions of my back facing the guests with the skirt undone. And I was not even on underwear beautiful bride, I had my underwear from M & S below! Fortunately, there was not much fabric skirt, by it was not remarkable. ”
Georgina dress fifties style was inspired by the old black and white films I used to see - a contrast to what had once planned.
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“In my twenties, I always thought that being a coward when I married. But I have three stepchildren, all [Lily, 13, Emma, 10, and Ruthie, five, Harvey's first wife, Eve Chilton] girls, and I did not want to embarrass them.
“I was not wearing a veil. Lorraine Schwartz [the jeweler] gave me tons of pearls - about $ 2 billion - that came in plastic bags. There were some beautiful vintage brooches, so I had hair and pins used as hair. I put Christian Louboutin platform shoes with the soles glass painted blue and then I sewed the ring from my grandmother, my commitment league. I made the for girls, too, but helped with the design. They chose the colors blue and purple, while I probably would have been blank. But she looked beautiful. ”
Before the wedding - guests included Sir Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell - Georgina constantly asked how many dresses she is going to take. “There is a tendency to change several times - one for the ceremony, another for the reception, something else later.” Me? “I just had my wedding dress and I wore it to the final match. That night, there were 15 children for a slumber party: three and all their friends. So I was watching. We still do not have a honeymoon! ”
Weddings are still very much in the mind of Georgina. Her design partner, Keren Craig, married his longtime boyfriend in July - using Marchesa, of course - and the duo, whose fans are Nicole Kidman, Cameron Diaz and Sienna Miller, who just launched a capsule bridal collection .
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“It’s way out of the peg. Bergdorfs [Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York] wanted fast and is a perfect place for us, “says Georgina. There is a current trend for brides to want things a little easier and the idea of the gown is quite large old-fashioned. There will always be some who want the full story, but for many young girls, to go from jeans and a T-shirt dress is like a big jump. ”
“You do not want to end up seeing the photographs and saying, ‘What the hell was that?” What was I thinking! “You want something that is very similar to what would be a fabulous party. Many girls simply do not have the luxury of time it takes for a tailored dress -. not to mention the cost ”
One apparently has time and money at their disposal is Coleen McLoughlin, who is rumored to be carrying? 100. 000 glass beads and haute couture Marchesa dress when she marries Wayne Rooney next month.
But for those with a less extravagant budget, the capsule collection features five designs, costing between $ 3.000 and $ 10.000, they are ready to use - and much cheaper - versions of couture by hand accounts , embroidery and draping the red carpet that the mark is famous Marquise. The label also has a diffusion line called Notte cheaper, which includes some evening gowns that are suitable for brides.
“Eventually, we will do a couture bridal collection when Marquise widens,” says Georgina, who initially was a costume designer Keren and met at Chelsea College of Art in London. “But we are still in a very small company. We have only been going three years and have a staff of 30. I hang each dress by hand, all are done in New York and then hand beaded in India. It takes months. Each design is a jewel, a labor of love. I do not enjoy if it all became too corporate. ”
relationship with Georgina Weinstein has inevitably led to malicious gossip and tabloid articles insisting that Marchesa’s success is based entirely on his influence.
“It seems that they would not,” says Georgina. “I will not deny that he has helped with Harvey. But if the clothes were not good, people do not use them. I think our client list speaks for itself.” As is the fact that the brand was named one of the 10 finalists in the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America / Vogue Fashion Fund in 2006.
Georgina has no intention of turning his back on the design and become a woman in Hollywood. “I think Harvey would shoot himself if I gave up,” he says. “Otherwise, I would be spending their money throughout the day!
