How Kitty Spencer’s wedding dress was inspired by Grace Kelly

Girl Kitty Spencer surprised this weekend in 5 Dolce & Gabbana clothes as she married millionaire Michael Lewis, 62, in a lavish Italian ceremony in what’s been billed because the society wedding ceremony of the 12 months.

Princess Diana‘s niece, 30,  tied the knot at a seventeenth century Italian fort on Saturday, along with her predominant robe a surprising lace quantity made personally by Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce.   

Whereas the gown was bespoke, many in contrast the look to 1 which made headlines world wide 65 years in the past.

With it is excessive neckline, corseted waist, and billowing skirt Girl Kitty’s gown has a transparent nod to Grace Kelly, the American Hollywood star who turned royalty when she married Prince Rainer of Monaco III  in 1956.

However Kitty is way from the primary bride to be impressed by Grace, with many royals sporting comparable robes over the seven many years since. 

In 2011, Kate Middleton was in comparison with the Princess when she sported a £250,000 intricate Alexander McQueen look, which included a lace bodice hand-stitched by the world’s greatest seamstresses on the Royal Faculty of Needlework. 

Different royals brides which have sported the look embrace Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Gloucester whereas dozens of celebrities together with Miranda Kerr have additionally discovered inspiration within the legendary robe. 

‘Grace Kelly’s wedding ceremony gown has impressed for thus a few years, as a result of it’s a traditional and iconic design and magnificence,’ celeb stylist Rochelle White instructed FEMAIL.  

‘It has the contact and glam of previous Hollywood, however may be very flattering on many physique shapes and kinds.

‘With it being such a easy design, it may be tailor-made and customised so as to add element and finishes to every particular person. With its excessive neck line, fitted bodice and lengthy prepare – it may make anybody sporting it really feel like royalty.

‘It has a feel and look that by no means will get dated and is a method that stands the check of time.

For Kate Middleton, who sported a Sarah Bruton robe for her 2011 nuptials, the intricate lace appliqué bodice and sleeves of the gown mirror these on the marriage robe of Grace Kelly, and each robes share a high-waisted, full-skirted silhouette with an extended, dramatic prepare, and have been worn with the sheerest of veils and diamond tiaras.

Different fashionable brides sporting the same look together with the likes of Kim Kardashian, who walked down the aisle in a customized Givenchy robe to wed Kanye West in Florence in 2014 – in addition to socialite Nicky Hilton, who sported a £55,000 Valentino to marry James Rothschild in London the 12 months after, and extra just lately actress Rose Leslie who married her Recreation of Thrones co-star Package Harrington in 2018. 

Kim Kardashian’s Givenchy bridal robe – which was made by Kanye’s good friend artistic director Riccardo Tisci and value a reported $500,00 – had the signature Grace Kelly lengthy lace arms, a cinched bodice and flooring size flowing skirt.

EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa, Kate Upton, Sophie Turner, Karlie Kloss, and Ashlee Simpson have additionally all opted for long-sleeved lace numbers of their latest nuptials, many with a transparent nod to the royal who died in 1982 aged 52.

Actress Miranda Kerr, 38, who married Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel in 2017, additionally wore a robe impressed by the Monaco royal – telling Vogue on the time: ‘Grace Kelly was an actual inspiration along with her gown and the way timeless it’s.’

However earlier than Kate Middleton and a decade value of brides, many others additionally wore seems impressed by the Princess – together with plenty of British royalty.

In 1960, Princess Margaret married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.

The gown was designed by Sir Norman Hartnell, the favoured couturier of the royals, and was created from silk with a 30m skirt. Her daughter-in-law, the Countess of Snowden paid homage to it when she wed David Armstrong-Jones in 1994.

Like Kate and Grace, Margaret additionally opted for a tiara along with her gown – which featured a corseted waist, lengthy sleeves and billowing skirt.

One other royal to have drawn inspiration from Grace Kelly is Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester who married the Queen’s first cousin Prince Richard in 1972 at St Andrew’s Church in Barnwell, Northamptonshire.

Prince Richard is the son of the late Prince Henry – the brother of King George VI, the Queen’s father.  

The Danish-born royal’s gown clearly attracts on Grace Kelly’s with the identical excessive neck, lace sleeves and puffed skirt.

Girl Kitty dazzled in a sequence of robes made for her by vogue home Dolce & Gabbana, for whom she is a model ambassador for her a lot delayed massive day. The Italian duo additionally dressed many on her glittering guestlist.

Kitty’s predominant robe, with an intricate floral lace design, a excessive neck, lengthy sleeves and puffed shoulders, was an echo of her mom’s personal wedding ceremony gown.

Nonetheless, she didn’t put on the distinctive Spencer diamond tiara sported by her mom on the 1989 ceremony, and most famously by her aunt Diana when she married Prince Charles in 1981.

The designers stated they’d solely 4 fittings to get it proper. ‘They have been stunning and emotional moments,’ stated Dolce. ‘One of many inspirations is unquestionably her love for Italy. Kitty is in love with our stunning nation and its wealthy historical past, artwork and tradition.’

Stefano Gabbana stated: ‘However she can be a lady who may be very hooked up to her origins, to England; to her heritage of the nice Victorian period. And like all of the English individuals, she has an incredible ardour for every kind of flowers.’     

He went on: ‘For the primary gown she needed to maintain a reasonably conventional, clear reduce, however on the identical time she desired to have a timeless attract.’ Dolce added: ‘It was all very pure and genuine. Girl Kitty Spencer described to us her dream gown, and we have now tried to interpret her needs.’

The evening earlier than the marriage, Kitty wore a baby-blue tulle robe and cape embroidered with cross-stitched flowers additionally made for her by Dolce & Gabbana.

Following the primary ceremony, she became a double organza hand-painted silk robe embellished with flowers and crystals for the marriage dinner.

She then modified a 3rd time on her massive day, swapping right into a cocktail gown embroidered with silver and golden beads.