What Type of Wedding Dress Should I Get?

1 Choose a Universally Flattering Silhouette

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"I think the most important thing is to have the waist visible or very defined. Starting from there, you can have a large skirt and train, or not."

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2 Trends Come and Go, So Be Careful With Them

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"Right now, I don't like balloon sleeves [as a bridal trend]. But maybe I will do that one day. I think it was Coco Chanel who said, 'I know what I don't like today.' So what I'm doing today absolutely equates to who I am today. What I will do tomorrow . . . of course today maybe I don't like it, because I'm not there yet."

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3 Passing Down Your Wedding Dress Is Definitely a "Do"

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"I love it. Even if you transform it, you are sharing part of it and transferring part of it, so that's very nice. There is a touch of sensitivity which I like very much."

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4 It's Important to Have Classic Icons

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"The pictures we have in our stores [of icons like Jackie Kennedy and Kate Middleton] I would say they amount to all time. For example, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. That dress. The way it defines her body. It's very much universal."

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5 Lace Will Always Be Lovely

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"Lace is very important for Pronovias. This year more than 50 percent of our gowns have lace, and I'm very happy to have gone back to lace. What I really like about working with lace is that I start by restructuring it, or undoing it, and I create something new — embossing designs with just the impressions of it. I destroy it then place it. It's not to use the full lace, it's to play with the lace and have something more modern."

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6 The 1 Color to Wear on Your Wedding Day — Other Than White

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"Red. Because I think red is very French. Also, very British. Back at the time when they did the royal weddings, it was very interesting."

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