This wedding dress is a little like the curtains, an on going conversation around here. Julie is my Boss's partner and now that she has finally moved to Santa Barbara wedding bells are in the air. The honeymoon is booked, but no date and no dress have been settled on.
She is the kindest most generous person I know, not to mention that she is a very successful career woman. When I first arrived in Santa Barbara and stayed at the new house for a few weeks, before she moved up from LA, she had every necessary convenience I would need at my fingertips. And this was an empty house before she heard I was coming.
We will fast forward to that dinner I spoke of that she treated me to on my birthday. When she and my boss picked me up they could not stop talking about my dress and how good I looked. Well she started up again talking to me about sewing and whether or not I could make a dress for her. Well I could, but I was supposed to be working on this school project and only that morning did my blog start flowing, so I felt really bad saying I couldn't do it, again.
It was during the next week that I had the breakthrough on my own dress. I was starting to get excited and ordering fabric as fast as I could find it.
On the following Saturday I visited the site with the interior designer and ended up at Julie's house in the afternoon, because I wanted to see it all furnished. Gorgeous of course with lots of accents of orange.
Well surprise surprise the interior designer was there putting finishing touches on the curtains and the conversation turned to wedding dresses. I talked about an Oscar de la Renta short wedding dress I had made for myself and we tried unsuccessfully to find a copy on line.
Well I was wrong it was an Emanual Ungaro. I found it when I got home.
We discussed a velvet number of my great grandmother's that I had worn to the millennium New Year's Eve party in Santa Barbara.
Then the Interior Designer started pouring through a book titled Little Black Dress from a show they had gone to see. He settled on this exquisite Valentino number from 1991-1992. It was gorgeous and did seem quite appropriate for Julie's build.
I started talking about my inverted pleats and all in all we had a fun time talking fashion, but still no wedding dress.
Much to my surprise I woke up with an idea in my head the next morning. I scribbled it down on the page and thought maybe this would work.
I'm not calling it a wedding dress and I'm not comparing myself to Valentino (I wish). It just built on the same ideas of my own dress design.
Could this be the start of what they call a Collection? I've seen the price tag of what she has been looking at. This dress is in the range of what the director wanted me to ask the ladies what they would splurge on.
I might be on to something. I couldn't wait to show it to her.
We ran into each other going to the office on Sunday morning. She was excited and game. I said the inverted pleats could be orange and showed her the orange lace. That is my boss's favorite color.
Not surprised, right.
Before the day was out the fabric was ordered and I went to work on the block.
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