Top 10 Wedding Gown Trends

Heather Levine: The top 10 trends are those details we’ve thought over and over
again on the bridal fashion runway. Want to be all craft for your
wedding? Check out some of these stunners.

Michael Shettel: I approached the collection this season with trend over tradition.
It’s not back to basic.

Male: I have always felt that sensual was the best way to go.

Monique Lhuillier: What I did this season was I made sure I'm looking felt very light
and airy.

Heather Levine: Whether it was part of a lace or placed directly on the fabric, polka
dots were popping up on wedding gown, making it our number 10
trend of the season.

Anne Barge: The polka dot, I just love. I’ve got this Italian silk, organza and I
just thought it was fresh and fun, and still a very polka dot, how
classic can you be, you know that it’s definitely a vintage polka
dot.

Mara Urshel: Henry is in polka dots. It’s the beautiful dress for garden parties I
mean it’s full, it looks great, it’s a ballerina like. And so, that’s a
whole 50s thing, and it looks great.

Heather Levine: Number nine on our list of top trends this season is the peplum.
That’s the short skirt that jets out with a more form fitting skirt
underneath.

Mark Ingram: Peplums were all over the runway as well. A peplum is sort like a
bustle but it’s all around the dress. It’s in front to the back. It’s like
a bubble in some ways. It just creates another layer, usually vents
followed underneath of which would be a narrow skirt.

Rita Vinieris: We’ve introduced peplums this season in our bridal gowns and
what we’ve done is we played on texture with peplum. We’ve
thought one great dress is made of organza and it’s got trumpet
skirt with a peplum on top of the trumpet skirt. We’ve edge the
bottoms of the hemlines with no hair just to accentuate the peplum
and then the bodice has lovely delicate draped and rushing.

Heather Levine: Maybe it’s because gowns were lighter this season, or maybe it’s
because designers couldn’t make up their minds about fabric. No
matter the reason, the layers we saw were the number eight trend,
and they were beautiful.

Mark Ingram: Vera Wang especially did like hand painted layers. They were over
layered within tulle and then sheer organza. They used layering to
diffuse color. Vera Wang use layering to sort of stuff with a dark
charcoal then layered up to lilac and into pinks. So it’s a way of
creating color, we created depth in dresses.

Mara Urshel: Lots of layers with mixing a fabric, you know of the tulle with
organza. Monique has some laces that were beautifully done, that
were different laces mix together and there was one dress that was
like geometric kind of a dress almost. It looks really, really
beautiful.

Heather Levine: Last season, bling with everywhere and this season as gowns got
lighter sew the ornamentation. Coming in at number seven in our
Top Ten Trends is sparkle, the subtle bling that touch many gowns.

Mark Ingram: Every dress had beading inside individually on the gown as we put,
it was scattered this crystal, like a snow shower or star shower. The
gorgeous midnight blue dress at Oscar de la Renta had a scattering
of sort of star shower on it, very twinkled.

Lela Rose: This collection, I feel like we added a little bit more sparkle and
shine but in a very Lela Rose way but it’s very subtle like one of
the fabrics we designed just kind of web, netting that has this clear
sequins that once we layered up with several different fabrics, you
would see a little bit more sparkle and shine.

Lazaro Perez: A lot of beautiful buckles with a lot of jewels and also, I went back
and did a couple of very strong silhouettes as the sheath and those
are all intricately beaded.

Heather Levine: Our number six trend of the season is what we’re calling origami
detail. From oblivious to dramatic fold, this detail was seen on a
variety of the bridal runways.

Mark Ingram: This is architectural Asian inspired folds using and seeing it on the
skirt and dresses from Angel Sanchez who actually is an
architecture, its inspiration is sort of natural for him. And Lela
Rose is a beautiful technique of the architectural fold as a peplum
on the skirt. She also use beautiful fold and the necklines get a fun
capture effect as well.

Lela Rose: The folding and wrapping, it’s something we’ve always work in.

Mark Ingram: Definite origami details at Ulla Maija who was the master of using
draping. His draping was more angular this time as opposed to
swag like. They were more like envelop like, origami like, the
paper work.

Heather Levine: Coming in at number five, it’s 30s inspiration. Vintage glamour
hits the bridal runways with this sexy slinky style.

Mark Ingram: There was so many 1930s inspired dresses on runway in this
collection. It evokes sort of Hollywood glamour from 30s like stars
like Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford. It evokes sort of summer
lawn and garden parties with big floppy hats and ruffled bottoms.
So it was a very languid look, a sort of flat-chested long waistline,
more emphasis on the hemline of the skirt, first to the neckline of
the dress.

Heather Levine: Some touches on trends to all out head to toe cues. Our number
four trend of the season is color.

Mark Ingram: Not one color predominated at market as an accent, but everybody
incorporated a color and use it in some way to make the dress as
really outstanding.

Ines Di Santo: I like colors being Italian, we like colors. We love colors.

Mark Ingram: I call it face paint or face powder colors. It was the palest of shade
you might use on your skin like a pale eyeshadow or pale blush or
pale lip color. There was the icy blues and grays at Angel Sanchez.
There was more some beautiful lilac at Vera Wang. There was the
sunny pale yellow at Ginkgo use in yoga. There was the use of
pink at Carolina Herrera. It’s definitely not always about an all-
white or all ivory dress. I think the newness about using color just
to give it a little touch of something and make it very special.

Heather Levine: Roses are the number three trend on our list. We’ve thought this
detail last season. But since then, it is pick up steam big time. Now
nearly every designer is creating gowns with big full blooms as
embellishment.

Mara Urshel: Flowers are in every collection almost land in every dress. Flowers
on skirts, flowers on waist, flowers on bodices, one shoulder is
going around with flowers.

Mark Ingram: Everybody use a flower motif with some sort, whether it was a
hand roll rose, I mean Monique literally use roses in many of her
gowns.

Monique Lhuillier: Flowers are just like a pretty element, always that so pretty for
your wedding.

Mara Urshel: Even Monique lace was the most floral lace that I’ve ever seen.
This gallop was so big. It was like a full rose, it sort of like a
bloom. It was beautiful. There are roses at Oscar de la Renta, there
are roses at Carolina Herrera, there are roses at Angel Sanchez,
these roses are beautifully in more distress way on his dresses, or
as a suggestion of a rose by using a rose petal.

Romona Keveza: It was inspired by the blossom of a garden and a blossoming of
flowers in a garden whether it be the opening of a two that you’re
seeing bodice of a gown, or look at the – it looks like tiny little
crystals which is sort of almost like the crystal dew in the morning
of the garden you see on the bells.

Heather Levine: There are always short bridal gown. But this season, the hems crop
up shorter than ever before. The mini is here and while the dresses
are short, they are nothing short on style.

Monique Lhuillier: I decided to show a short look this time around. It’s because girls
have great legs and they want to dance and have a good time. For
the receptions, I think the mini was a right thing to do this season.

Charles Bunstine II: I have always liked short. When you look at every venues now,
there was always this image of like getaway weddings where
people were flowage upon, you can do more than that. So we
expanded it out. We have things that are inspired by a deco
photograph from the 30s or something like that or something that
ends up feeling light and happy and moody. That attitude is
important and I think it’s really important for every woman.

Mara Urshel: It’s more affordable because it’s short. So after buying your
excessive long gown, you need to buy a short dress.

Heather Levine: And our number one trend of the season, it’s the one shoulder
gown. Brides are more fashion forward than ever, so bridal
designers are taking cues from the ready to wear runways and are
creating one shoulder look in every way possible.

Mark Ingram: One shoulder it became feeling mainstream this collection just go
around. Every designer offered one shoulder in one way or
another.

Douglas Hannant: Years ago, it was hard to sell a one shoulder gown but nowadays,
women are – I'm finding such a strong response to one shoulder.
Everyone is asking for it. They’re buying it from me, they love it.

Female: I’d love the one shoulder neckline was what I call a very critical
world ruffled flower. If you look at the shoulder, it actually ends
up turning into a rose and it is very new for 2011 and I think for
the next decade.

Mara Urshel: I think the important thing about one shoulder is that it can be
transformed to a strapless and it’s a dress structured well enough to
be strapless, and then the one shoulder added. It gives that to
diversity if a girl can change her mind.

Heather Levine: For more gorgeous gowns straight from the runway, go to the the
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