'The transatlantic dress': designer Vera Wang on creating Victoria Beckham's iconic wedding gown
Victoria Beckham married David Beckham in a lavish ceremony at Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland in July 1999. The Spice Girl's star wore a Champagne-coloured gown with an intricate corset, a collaboration between Vera Wang and UK-based costumier Mister Pearl. This meant that the bodice had to whiz back and forth between New York and London many times. "I call it the transatlantic dress. That bodice flew back and forth four times on the Concorde.
I could not live with that because I need to be comfortable, as I always say, but Victoria did," Vera Wang told Vera visited Victoria in London for one of the fittings, while the pop star also came to New York twice. However, the dress project had to be put on hold after Victoria discovered she was pregnant with her first child, son Brooklyn, and the wedding had to be delayed."We delayed the wedding for two years. Then we resumed...