by Robyn Orr | Jul 14, 2014 | Famous Wedding Dresses, General
Designing For Her Own Wedding Monique Lhuillier’s rise to popularity is almost too good to be true. After meeting her future husband Tom Bugbee while she was at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Lhuillier quit her job and put all her energy on...
by Robyn Orr | Jul 7, 2014 | Famous Wedding Dresses
Our Favorite Fad: A Blush Wedding Dress Colored wedding dresses. They seem to be here to stay. These gowns add a new twist to even the most classic of fits, and yet we are having a hard time accepting them. Strangely though, there is one color that we cannot get...
by Robyn Orr | May 31, 2014 | Famous Wedding Dresses, General
Princess Madeleine is someone most can relate to; days before her wedding she used whatever she could (royal privilege) to get out of a traffic ticket. Her American husband, financer Chris O’Neil, turned down a royal title so that he can keep his American...
by Kathy Wright | Apr 23, 2014 | Famous Wedding Dresses, General
With some actresses, it is difficult to separate the woman from the legacy. Especially the women of Hollywood’s Golden Age, where film and fashion were intertwined and fashion and Hollywood magazines were gaining popularity. Our culture is now filled with a love...
by Robyn Orr | Apr 9, 2014 | Famous Wedding Dresses, General
The marriage of 1950’s movie star Grace Kelly seems like one that could come straight out of a fairly tale: Unknown girl from Philadelphia makes it big as one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood and marries a prince from a prosperous country, Monaco....
by Robyn Orr | Mar 26, 2014 | Famous Wedding Dresses, General
Designing Dreams: Jim Hjelm’s early life and career You may have heard of Jim Hjelm and JLM Couture, but you probably don’t know the story behind the designer and the company. It begins in Worcester, Massachusetts where as a child Jim Hjelm enjoyed...