BLING BLING!

December 9, 2005 in Designers,Dresses,Unusual Weddings,Wedding Dresses with 9 Comments

bling bling!

For the bride that really, really, really wants to make a statement at her wedding, and that statement is, “My wedding dress cost more than most of my guests will earn in a lifetime,” Japanese designer Keiji Tagawa has created a dress aptly named “Platinum White.”

This $1.7 million dress is made of 1,250 platinum beads along with more than 3,000 other jewels including pearls, aquamarines, moonstones and crystals. Precious metal and semi-precious stones are woven together to create images of cherry blossom trees and roses.

According to a Yahoo News story about the heavily blinged dress,

The gown, which for now will go on display rather than down the aisle, was designed on behalf of the Tokyo office of Platinum Guild International, a producers group, at a time that platinum is trading at 25-year highs.

Bling bling, indeed.

About Christa Terry: Christa Terry is a writer and wedding and lifestyle expert whose book iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net is a one-stop planning resource for modern, free-thinking brides and grooms. With one husband, one toddler, and more on the way – kids, not husbands – Christa somehow manages to stay on top of the tricks and trends that make getting married and living life stylish and fun.

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9 Responses to “BLING BLING!”

  1. Lori December 9, 2005 at 6:29 pm #

    I don’t like the bling, the baggy bodice, the built-in corsage, or the skirt-like sleeves. In addition, the roses don’t match the dress (red or silvery pink would have looked better) and the model would look better with a hairstyle that covered her ears. And yet, I love this picture.

  2. enygma December 9, 2005 at 8:27 pm #

    @_@ Whoa. I’d be scared to wear a dress that cost that much.

  3. Never teh Bride December 9, 2005 at 11:29 pm #

    I’d have to agree, Lori. Perhaps it is simply that the actress who is modeling the dress looks so darned cute. Like she’s playing dress up. Which, I suppose is what anyone wearing a $1.7 million dress is doing.

  4. Never teh Bride December 9, 2005 at 11:30 pm #

    Same here, enygma! God forbid one of the beads fell off!

  5. Megaera December 10, 2005 at 2:38 am #

    I don’t know, some sick part of me, (probably the part whose favorite colors as a child were silver and gold, the metallic versions, thank you,) is twistedly enamored. I’d probably wear it and pretend to be a cast member of Dynasty or something…

  6. Never teh Bride December 10, 2005 at 6:23 pm #

    BRING ME MY PLATINUM DRESS…I WANT TO LOOK RICH!

  7. Gigolo Kitty December 10, 2005 at 11:03 pm #

    How much does that dress weigh? I dont care how much it costs if I have need cantilever support to wear it!

  8. jenny December 14, 2005 at 2:18 am #

    I’m a bit embarrassed-surprised to say that I really like this dress! Or rather, I would like this dress if it weren’t for the weird, wrong-color voluminous sleeves. What’s up? It’s like she sewed two different dresses together. Oh, that, and the fact that sewing platinum beads on anything is literally like throwing pearls before swine: you know that she’s gonna lose a good $1,000-worth of bling just getting in and out of the car, for Pete’s sake!

  9. CrankyBiscuit December 14, 2005 at 10:33 pm #

    Tear the sleeves off that thing and we’ll talk. (As a side benefit, it will probably knock a few thousand off the total price.)