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After a lot anticipation, Lauren Sanchez’s wedding robe has been revealed, with Dolce & Gabbana confirmed as the style home behind the elegant, high-necked design that includes 180 silk chiffon-covered priest buttons.
Many particulars surrounding the Bezos-Sanchez wedding extravaganza have been carefully guarded and, in step with custom, this secrecy in fact prolonged to the bridal dress.
But the sartorial embargo couldn’t preserve a lid on early rumors that Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been the designers behind the look, which was completed with a standard tulle-and-lace veil, impressed by the one Sophia Loren wore within the 1958 movie “Houseboat,” in response to Vogue.
A 12 months and a half within the making, Sanchez instructed Vogue in an exclusive interview that the unique idea for the dress took place over dinner with Dolce in New York. “It went from ‘I want a simple, sexy modern dress’ to ‘I want something that evokes a moment,’” she recalled.
Sanchez’s private affinity to the posh Italian model isn’t any secret, and she or he’s now an everyday attendee of its trend exhibits.
Sanchez attended the home’s Alta Sartoria couture present in Sardinia final summer season the place she watched on — in white, no much less — as her son Nikko Gonzalez walked the runway. Gonzalez had made his debut for Dolce & Gabbana in the course of the model’s fall-winter 2024 menswear present in Milan in January of that 12 months, with each Sanchez and Bezos within the entrance row.
Dolce was additionally photographed in Venice on Thursday, additional fueling hypothesis that the designers have been concerned within the wedding.
Sanchez’s daring type has advanced considerably through the years. In the lead-up to her Met Gala debut in 2024, when she stepped out in a strapless Oscar de la Renta customized design, she instructed Vogue: “I think my personal style is ever-evolving. I was a reporter for a long time, so it was suits. Then did a morning show and you dressed a little differently. I’ve always had to dress for the role I was in. Now I’m having fun.”
She appeared to channel this angle at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in January, when she raised eyebrows in an Alexander McQueen go well with; the suffragist-white design was styled to disclose a touch of her lace bustier.
Meanwhile, a survey of her extra formal appears in recent times reveals a pattern towards form-fitting, strapless and mermaid-cut robes, exemplified by the shimmering nereid-inspired Roberto Cavalli robe she wore to the amfAR gala in Cannes final month. In the digital cowl story for Vogue, Sanchez stated the extra full-coverage bridal look is “a departure from what people expect.” Her husband-to-be, she stated, begged to see the dress earlier than their nuptials.
The interview additionally detailed her outfit modifications for the night: a sweetheart-neck, corseted silhouette (impressed by the Rita Hayworth-led 1946 movie “Gilda”) for the wedding dinner, and an intricate cocktail dress that includes 175,000 crystals by Oscar de la Renta — who had additionally been rumored as a robust contender for the design of her wedding robe.
Sanchez has turned to movie star stylists like Molly Dickson and to assist craft her search for main public occasions, as many outstanding figures do.
Dickson, who counts Sydney Sweeney and Bella Hadid amongst her purchasers, styled Sanchez in a remarkably bridal, all-white Oscar de la Renta customized robe for the Vanity Fair Oscar social gathering in March. While the design by Dolce & Gabbana was the principle occasion, Sanchez tantalized onlookers with quite a few different high-fashion ensembles together with a single-strapped classic Alexander McQueen dress and an embroidered corset dress from Schiaparelli’s most up-to-date couture present over the course of celebrations.
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