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GO FOR GLAMOURIan Stuart’s brilliant bridal dress designs
MANAGING EDITOR Chris Wilson EDITORIAL Stephanie Burns, Fiona Barber, Phoebe Seymour, Jordan Cutforth CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Richard Abbey SUB-EDITOR Richard Smith STUDIO MANAGER Chris Brierley DESIGN Dan Wray, Steve Levers, Charles Bradshaw OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Jillion Wood SALES PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Amanda Roy
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Bold andbeautifulDespite his imaginative creations havingtaken the bridal market by storm, there’smuch more to come from designer Ian Stuart,says Stephanie Burns.
Whimsical, theatrical,
flamboyant’. In three words,
globally renowned bridal
designer Ian Stuart
perfectly sums up his
signature style, a style that has been pored
over by brides the world over for well over a
decade and continues to attract great acclaim
from both customer and peer.
Anyone who has taken even a passing
interest in fashion or bridalwear will be
familiar with Ian’s creations. Boldly taking his
needle and thread where few have dared to
venture, his more elaborate gowns wouldn’t
look out of place in a Renaissance painting
and are often held up as the pinnacle of bridal
design. Deftly focused on fit, quality, styling
and detail, each piece is a work of art inspired
by three of the designer’s passions: old films,
coffee table books and music.
I managed to grab a quick phone call with
Ian at the beginning of the year as he was
putting the finishing touches to his 2016/2017
collections – due for release in April – to
discuss the highlights of his illustrious career.
In his line of work, days are anything but
typical. In and amongst the designing, his time
passes by in a whirlwind of meetings with
fabric suppliers, modelling agencies, sales
agents and jewellery designers, all the while
cataloguing and storyboarding the fabrics,
laces and trimmings he collects along the way.
Days after we spoke, he embarked on one of
his regular fabric-finding missions in Hong
Kong, China and Taiwan.
From a young age, Ian was given a taste of
a more international lifestyle than many
children are. He was born in Holland in 1967
before moving to Manchester when he was
five. Growing up, he adored theatre and the
arts and almost signed up to acting school.
Instead, he studied design and graduated with
a fashion degree from Berkshire College of
Art and Design in 1989.
Before the course had ended, he had
already been snapped up by David Sassoon
of Bellville Sassoon – a Chelsea-based
couture company that has counted Jackie
Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor
and every member of the royal family
except the Queen among its loyal clientele
over the years – and chose, accordingly, to
specialise in wedding dresses for his final
project.
“It was a practical decision,” he admits. “I
really wanted to do theatrical costumes but
I realised that at that time there wasn’t that
much work in it. Wedding dresses and
eveningwear were the most similar things.”
At the age of 25, he secured a job at
Sweetheart Gowns – in his words, ‘a big
cheesy American bridalwear company’ –
where he worked for ten years, winning
Wedding Dress Designer of the Year in the
USA – a major achievement for an English
designer – in the process.
In 2002, having moved back to London,
Ian set about creating his eponymous
company along with fellow designer Peter
Tague. “We converted a spare bedroom in
the house, started up very small, made a
collection, went to show it at a show in
Germany and got a full order book. At that
moment it [went] from being a dream into
‘this is really tangible and we now have to
finance these orders and put them into
production and actually make these dresses’.
So it made it very, very real.”
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Ah, white weddings. Traditions such as the gorgeous dress, the towering cake, and walking down the aisle are what a brides-to-be’s
dreams are made of. It may sound like a cocktail for the perfect wedding ceremony now, but if you got hitched a few hundred years
ago when these traditions were in their infancy, you’d probably find them less than romantic. From warding off evil spirits, to
stopping runaway brides, here are just a few of the reasons why we celebrate weddings in the way we do.
ORIGINS OF MARRIAGESo, why do we get married at all? The concept of marriage is about 4,350 years old. Anthropologists believe that before then, families consisted
of large groups (around 30) of loosely related people, with several male leaders sharing a number of women and children.
As hunter-gatherers started to settle into civilisations and nurture the land, they wanted smaller and more stable family units. Marriage’s
primary purpose was to bind women to men, and guarantee that a man’s children were truly his.
The first recorded marriage ceremonies between one woman and one man date back to 2350 BC, in Mesopotamia. Over the following
several hundred years, marriage evolved into an institution recognised by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans. Interestingly, marriage had
little to do with religion or love to begin with.
Love became a motivating factor during the Middle Ages, whilst marriage was accepted as a sacrament by the Catholic church in the 8th
century. Marriage was then written into canon law at the Council of Trent in 1563.
It was only later that the western world started adopting the wedding traditions we know today.
Contrary to popular belief, the white dress wasn’t chosen to represent the purity and innocenceof the bride, but became fashionable after Queen Victoria wore white for her wedding.
Victoria (the trend-setting Kardashian of her time) wore a plain white dress to marry PrinceAlbert in 1840 simply because she liked the colour. But, she wasn’t the first... Mary Queen of Scotswore white to marry Dauphin François of France in 1558. However, this was consideredscandalous at the time, as white was traditionally worn by royal ladies in mourning.
The veil and train, on the other hand, originated in Roman times. Roman brides wereswaddled from head to toe in a gigantic flame-coloured veil called the flammeum as it wasbelieved its fiery appearance would scare off evil spirits. Similarly, bouquets used to contain garlicand dill, and bridesmaids wore similar dresses to the bride to confuse and ward off evil spirits.
The veil and train also prevented brides from running away from their grooms – and viceversa, as the bride’s face would usually only be revealed to him at the end of the ceremony.
SOMETHING OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE This tradition is believed to date back to 1898 and comes from an Old English rhyme which
says, “Something olde, something new, something borrowed, something blue, a sixpence in your
shoe”, all of which are lucky charms carried by the bride on the big day.
Something old represents continuity; something new offers optimism for the future;
something borrowed symbolises borrowed happiness; something blue stands for purity, love,
and fidelity; and a sixpence in your shoe is a wish for good fortune and prosperity, although
this last tradition does not seem to have stood the test of time.
In return, guests were traditionally given five prettily-wrapped almonds to represent
fertility, longevity, wealth, health and happiness as favours. Nowadays, we tend to use anything
from the classic sugared almonds, to CDs, to lottery tickets.
There are several possible reasons why we have tiered wedding cakes. In Ancient Rome, bread
was broken over the bride’s head to bring the couple good fortune and in Medieval
England, cakes were stacked as high as possible for the bride and groom to kiss over.
From the mid-1600s, a bride’s pie was served at most weddings. It was considered rude
and bad luck not to eat it. This was eventually replaced with a bride cake made of plums or
fruit cake, symbolic of fertility and prosperity.
Two cakes were then made – one for the bride and one for the groom. The groom would
have a fruit cake which was usually smaller than the bride’s, whilst the bride had a simple
pound cake covered in white icing.
And this is where the trend-setting Queen Vic comes in again. Sugar was very expensive, so
icing really showed off the social standing and wealth of the family. When Victoria used white
icing on her cake, she coined the term Royal Icing.
The first modern, tiered wedding cake appeared at Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany’s
wedding in 1882.
CHALLENGINGTRADITIONSSome of our wedding traditions are so
well established in our society, we
forget about the loopholes and how
fluid marriage laws can be. Here are a
couple of examples of wedding customs
tipped on their heads:
LEAP DAYAccording to an old Irish legend, St
Brigid struck a deal with St Patrick
to allow women to propose to
men. The catch? They could only
do so every four years on Leap
Day – 29 February. Many women
still think men should be the ones
to do the proposing, but we say
don’t wait for permission. Be a
leading lady... and don’t forget that
there’s one this year!
MEN WHO MARRIED MENYou may think gay marriage is a newconcept, but you’d be wrong. RomanEmperor Nero, who ruled between 54and 68AD, twice married men in formalwedding ceremonies.
Homosexual weddings werecommon in second and third centuryRome, but worried many people includingsocial commentator Juvenal, who pointedout that male “brides” would never beable to “hold their husbands by having ababy”, and the Romans outlawed formalhomosexual unions in the year 342.
It’s taken over 1600 years, but samesex marriage was finally legalised in theUK in 2014.
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