Comments on: Why Oh Why Tornai?

By: lissa

lissa — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:10:40 +0000

i think the champaign one with the emerald sequence is beautiful. i wouldn’t buy it for that price. i would remake it my own and not use see through fabric but a champaign lace instead. when i get married, hopefully i can try to make one like that one. but it is pretty. like a fairytale.

By: Sugatek

Sugatek — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:54:52 +0000

I agree, Pnina can be over the top sometimes, but I also think she has some beautiful dresses as well. I watch SYTTD often and if you do and saw the dress that Bridal Consultant Sarah selected, it was a Pnina…fitted, but classy and GORGEOUS! You can’t show 5 dresses to define a person’s collection.

By: beeble

beeble — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:30:14 +0000

On the Television Without Pity board for “Say Yes to the Dress,” they refer to her designs as the “stripper fairy” look. Only one bride on SYTTD rocked her design well, it was Dorianne who lined the bodice of one of her designs and wore a beautiful birdcage veil with it. Other Pnini brides look awful especially in a church setting. The dresses are designed for Vegas showgirls not brides getting married in places of worship.

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:02:23 +0000

Oh, left out my HOWEVER – HOWEVER, if she’s going to construct a garment with seams in a sheer fabric, she’d do better to join them with galloon or entre-deux or passementerie of some sort – those seams in the bottom dress are NOT attractive, and could have been avoided – and should have been.

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:59:45 +0000

I’ll give the designer this: the dresses, by and large, seem to be imaginative, VERY well-constructed, and frequently very pretty. The overall impression I get, somehow, is that the designer got her start designing for Costume Cons. No, I wouldn’t wear something see-through for my wedding gown – or, come to think of it, EVER – but thirty years ago, I would have liked one of those gowns. I don’t know where I would have worn it, but I would have liked to own #1 or #3 (although I’d have to shift the poufiness on #3 – the waist needs to be higher, or the poufs draped narrower, for me).

By: Blossom

Blossom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:11:54 +0000

To me it looks like she has stuck a big poffy skirt on the bottom of some sexy lingure.

By: Rosanna

Rosanna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:27:13 +0000

Well, many clergy members don’t seem to have a problem marrying women whose dresses are form fitting (when not frankly showing too much in the “upper department”) so what about these gowns you don’t like? They are excessive, all right, but the “sexy bride” school of thought is alive and kicking, as well as the “princess bride” and the “modest bride”. The one that is sorely missing is the thinking bride… most are pushed by relatives, fiancees, wedding planners and fashion stylists to wear gowns that don’t make them look good just because somebody else has an expectation of how a bride “should look”. I’ll tell you how a bride should look: she should look like HERSELF, whatever that means (if she is trashy, that’s how it is appropriate for her to look!).

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:06:20 +0000

The second one is *especially* awful, because it can’t make up its mind about where the waist is. The boning part goes over a waist which doesn’t look like a natural part of the skirt. The first one at least has embellishments that segue from the top to the bottom. The second looks like a pair of granny-briefs is being worn under it.

As it is – ugh. The translucent ones look like fancy undergarments that a wedding dress should be going *over*.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:17:52 +0000

She's a nut... a nut, I tell you! Though I still can't help liking the black and white gown in this post. Not sure what it is about her and the sheer panels, though. I could do without seeing the bride's bellybutton, thanks!

By: Twistie

Twistie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:28:57 +0000

@Margo: I do believe you’re right. In fact, if she turned around, I think we could see precisely where the pinch is. Perhaps that’s why she’s so fond of all that sheer fabric in the bodice?

@Kate the Bride: While I think Say Yes to the Dress is partly responsible for making Ms. Torani’s designs yet more popular, she seemed pretty established before the show, and her designs have also popped up to much oohing and ahing on shows like Whose Wedding Is It, Anyway?; Rich Bride, Poor Bride; and Bridezillas. I think the conspiracy reaches beyond Kleinfelds.