Tag Archives: Designer Wedding Dresses

Monique Lhuillier’s Vision of Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress

Posted on May 17, 2012 by RYW

Monique Lhuillier shares her thoughts on Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress The big news in Hollywood is the engagement of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie who have been living together for more than seven years with their six kids (one their biological child and the rest adopted). No wedding date has been set but Angelina is proudly wearing in her left finger the “dazzling diamond” ring which is, according to wild guesses, 10 carats and worth $1 million. The question (aside from the wedding date) of the hour is who will design Angelina’s wedding gown and how it will look. A story in the latest issue of People magazine included the sketches of two A-list designers (not exactly the ones who would be chosen by Angelina to do it), one of them Hollywood-based Filipina Monique Lhuillier. Shown here is Monique’s sketch as published by People mag, described as “a Chantilly lace gown with a beautiful V-neckline, low back and a high slit.” Monique Lhuillier was quoted as saying, “Angie has style. She takes a classic look and adds a sultry, sexy edge and makes it her own.”

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Elizabeth Taylor’s Weeding Dress to be Auctioned at Christie’s

Posted on December 3, 2011 by RYW

  Few of us can afford to bid on Elizabeth Taylor’s prized possessions up for auction this month at Christie’s. But fans with $30 can look in on the upscale garage sale before the film legend’s goods to on the block. “The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor,” running Saturday through Dec. 12, features everything from film memorabilia to paintings, jewelry, accessories and decorative items. The collection is expected to fetch more than $50 million when Lizophiles get a chance to bid on everything Dec. 13. “I think two of the most interesting things are the leather bound scripts from ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and ‘National Velvet,’” said Heather Barnhart, Christie’s project director for the collection. “As a present for her, [husband] Eddie Fisher bound all of her scripts in lilac leather with gold embossing and he added movie stills in the back of them.”   The bound “National Velvet” script is expected to sell for between $2,000 and $3,000, while “Tin Roof” should pull in between $3,000 and $5,000.Among the highest-priced possessions is the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond, formerly known as the Krupp Diamond. It’s expected to sell for between $2.5 and $3.5 million, and was given to her as a gift by another husband, … Continue reading →

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Buy & Sell pre owned wedding dresses

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Liz

Unless you have an limitless wedding budget or have the backing of a very wealthy family, probabilities are you are attempting to find ways to make your wedding more affordable. The idea of paying a huge sum of cash for the “perfect” wedding dress may be a very hard pill to swallow when you consider all the other expenditures involved in hosting a wedding. Well there is a compromise in the conception of purchasing pre owned wedding dresses for far under what a new dress of comparable value would cost. More and more brides world-wide are realizing that their imagination wedding dresses may fetch them a lot of much necessitated cash and are actively attempting to trade these as pre owned wedding dresses for a very cheap price, far beneath what they in the first place paid. The problem facing numerous brides-to-be is where to look for these great deals on preowned wedding gowns. There are a lot of places to commence searching and this is what we are going to thoroughly question now. 1. Family Ties The easiest place to get started is merely by talking to prompt and extended family members. Chances are that somebody had a daughter … Continue reading →

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