For this week’s LOVE/HATE, we have an Unrath & Strano wedding dress from the spring/summer 2010 collection. A prairie neck ruffle comes together with what looks to be mother of pearl… the ruffle continues on in sash form to the dropped waist only to be split in two and spat out from under a shiny belt. And the best part: Around the saddlebags, a discarded tube top from the 70s!
The weird thing is that I want to hate it so badly, but there’s a part of me that keeps saying “ON THE RIGHT BRIDE, ON THE RIGHT BRIDE” over and over again like a song stuck in my head. I can picture this wedding dress looking amazing, perhaps on the bride who looks just like the model? Or in just the right venue? It’s as if this frock has hypnotized me into loving it even though everything about it breaks some fashion rule I have for myself.
What say you?
(Photo by Boris Marberg)
I want to love it, but I just can’t get away from the sash .. If it wasn’t for the sash, I’d be all over it.
Everytime I look at it, I see something else about it that I like.
What I keep thinking is that there are elements I honestly do like – for the right bride, not just everyone – but they’re in this bizarre mish-mash that just overwhelms me. It feels to me like one of the dresses on last week’s Project Runway where Michael Kors said it looked as though the designer had smushed several different dresses together.
Alas, someone else was judged to have done worse and I’m stuck with Anthony on my television tonight.
Back to the dress: smocking was never intended to be done on the thighs. It just wasn’t. The glittery details could be fun if they were the right glittery details, but this edging just looks cheap and tacky to me. The collar could be spectacular on the right woman if only the huge floaty scarf bit went away, or if the bodice was close fitted. I love the sleeves, with a less chaotic line. And those shoes are doing absolutely zero favors to the overall look.
I’m just not feeling this one.
Love little bits, but hate the complete package.
If the bride looks like a model and the venue is right, I think it could work. For me personally, at 5 feet tall, I would drown in this!
Chop it up and have a sundress and a renfair blouse…
I just watched season one and season two of Big Love. Nicky. The Compound. That is all.
Yech. No. It kind looks like the bottom is falling off her butt.
Sorry, hate it. Not on anyone, ever. Get rid of the Star Wars mother-of-pearl details and the sash and you almost have a cover-up for a prudish but still happening auntie.
NO.
Then again, I’m not a fan of high-necked blouses like that.
That said, I’ll agree with others that this could make for a cute blouse and/or skirt, just not together.
It looks great above the hips. Below the hips, though, there are two illusions going on there: Falling off the butt (I want to yell at her to pull up her pants ’cause she looks like an idiot) and extra thigh-cheese.
Um, no. Just no. Never, ever, ever should anyone wear this, tall or not.
not good. smocking + thighs = fail. it looks like it was designed for an amazon woman and was worn by a shortie, though we all know that models’ jobs are to appear piss-off, underfed, and willowy/tall.