There’s been a whole lotta travel involved lately with more on the way. Italy last week, London this week and Barcelona next week – where I’ll be immersing myself in the world of bridal fashion week and paying particular attention to and reporting back on some of the new seasons bridal designs that I love the most. By the way, if you’re not already, you know you can follow Love My Dress on Instagram to keep up with my travel as well as our blog content too.
I have a UK exclusive for you this afternoon. These images are from the new 2016 ‘Romantique‘ collection by US based designer and one of the UK’s most successful selling bridal designers, Claire Pettibone.
‘Romantique’ is the diffusion line for Claire Pettibone’s brand of divine bridal gowns – a collection of fun and youthful designs that are less expensive than her mainline couture creations. This particular collection, named ‘Into the Sunset’, pays tribute to the untamed romance of the old wild west and windblown prairies….
The endless land absorbs our dreams, and the sheltering sky embraces the dreamers with its wide blue arms. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it for a little while. You and I are like the tawny hawks sailing over our heads, making slow shadows on the grass (Prose inspired by the 1913 classic, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather)
This collection has Claire’s signature stamped all the way through it, but also takes a step away from her usual very ethereal and romantic styling and for me, replaces it with a really bold, fun yet ultimately very feminine fashion statement. Claire is one of those designers who knows how to break the mould but still keep things naturally very beautiful – and always completely lust worthy.
I adore this beautiful option for bries who don’t wish to marry in white, and yet who might not want to marry in all black – the ivory lace slip worn beneath this black lace gown is for me, the epitome of ‘alternative’ bridal elegance.
To find out more about these gowns won’t be stocked in the UK until a little later this year, please contact Claire Pettibone via clairepettibone.com.
UK stockists should contact the distributor for Claire Pettibone in the UK, via Blackburn Bridal.
Do you have any particular favourite lovely readers? Are any of you wearing a Claire Pettibone or ‘Romantique‘ gown for your wedding?
Love Annabel x
Dresses – Claire Pettibone
Hair – Laurent Dufourg for Prive
Make-up – Viviana Martin for Kevyn Aucoin
Boots – Old Gringo
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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.
Beautiful lace and stunning dresses. Although, call me old fashioned, I’m not in love with a bride in black just yet! And Annabel, surely you are not jetting off to Spain without your team interpreter again?! 😉 xx
What a *fabulous* idea Katie – TEAM INTERPRETER. Next time, next time!!!
I should really stop ogling dresses when I’ve already bought mine but these are just too pretty! What a shame my budget won’t stretch to a Second Dress!!
I got married in 2006 Louisa …. And I still can’t help looking at wedding dresses! Just too much pretty! (Hope your plans are going well – what dress have you gone for?) x
Oh, the lace… It’s bridal heaven right? I have to admit, I’m loving the black belt but it’s those plunging v-necks that always do it for me. Absolutely divine and fantastic to see this exclusive on Love My Dress.
And Annabel, I’m going to be glued to your Instagram next week so don’t let me down – my dress-loving soul needs you!
T x
Promise not to let you down 😉 xx