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...motifs and influences – from the “plakhta” draped skirts inspired by those worn by women when harvesting wheat, and tailored jackets with wide sleeves that reference traditional “sorochka” blouses, to maxi dresses...
...He started with eyeglasses and teapots but eventually set up Sheinside, selling cheap wedding dresses to brides in the US. This company would eventually morph into Shein....
...“It is the million-dollar question . . . it is possible that mix is a factor and that people are more likely to want to try on things like suits or dresses.”...
...For her wedding to Torretta, in 2018, she wore high-necked Valentino haute couture....
...When European cities reopened and small weddings became de rigueur, the brand fast-tracked a wedding capsule for smaller ceremonies and casual brides....
...Despite such a rapid rise, there is little public information about the company or its enigmatic founder, beyond that it started life selling Chinese-made goods from sunglasses to wedding dresses for export...
...Its founder Chris Xu (also known as Yangtian Xu) started out in search engine marketing before selling wedding dresses and other clothes online, and Shein is natively digital in a way that older rivals such...
...gigs, romantic dinners and, yes, weddings....
...“The [fabric] market is very local, for weddings and festive periods,” he says. The factory gives him creative control to experiment with new textiles....
...; and sinuous dresses in sequins and tiger stripes....
...I still remember wearing one of its romantic confections to a wedding in the 1980s, all flowers, frills and voluminous folds. I felt like the bride herself — or maybe just the cake....
...From a rundown office tower in downtown Shanghai, wedding dresses are sold to the US, wristwatches are shipped to France and cheap trainers are sent to customers in the UK....
...Rokh’s Rok Hwang, now in his third Paris season, wrote in a show note that he was missing his sister’s wedding that day, and dedicated his collection to her....
...If you wanted to get hitched you could marry ten women,” said Wael, 42, as he tried vainly to sell puffy wedding dresses in Damascus....
...For the little bag, I just asked the factory to reduce the size of the normal bag — to the idea of a bag — keeping all the detail. And that’s how it came about....
...I tiptoed past a row of wedding dresses slopped with red paint. It all seemed rather forbiddingly grim until the man in the bookshop, whose nail-varnish matched his black beard, unexpectedly smiled....
...This factory is an unobvious seat of tradition, being a modern steel shed that makes candles in volume....
...I’d spent quite a lot of time working in an embroidery factory in Kolkata, so it’s special to me. We keep it on our bed in winter....
...“I made this because the question I get asked more than any other is what to wear to a wedding,” she says. “Because you want to look appropriate at a wedding, right? But you might also get laid....
...At my sister’s wedding in 2004, she wore a 1980s shoulder-padded mauve suit, the sort of thing you see women wearing at Republican conventions. It was boxy, buttony and in-your-face....
...A recent “find” is Ceri Vintage & Factory, an amazing, under-the-radar vintage store in Florence....
...Amid this bucolic bacchanalia, I kept thinking of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince’s wedding in 2011, and Moss’s 15 bridesmaids all wearing white....
...In September, he enshrined Kim Kardashian’s status as a fashion idol when he designed the reality star’s wedding dress....
...“My factories are standing by.” But then consider this from Thomas Onda, one of the speakers at the Bazaar summit, and the chief intellectual property counsel for Levi Strauss & Co....
...of the factory managers....
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