Bridal Fall 2024 Trend: Blooming Bride
Is the wedding dress itself the new bouquet?
Across the latest New York Luxury Bridal Fashion Week — filled with presentations, appointments and runway shows — a prominent trend of blooms filled the runway, with 3D appliqués and laser-cut florals becoming the center point of the wedding dress silhouette, making the botanical expression more than an embellishment.
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Australian fashion brand Bronx and Banco presented its inaugural bridal collection on the runway during October’s New York Luxury Bridal Fashion Week, with designer Natalie De-Banco giving her signature mega-watt glam and sexy styles the bridal treatment across 23 looks. De-Banco imbued playfulness into the lineup a la 3D florals, as seen through an embellished mini.
Oversize, dramatic blooms were also spotted across bridal collections from Galia Lahav, Rebecca Vallance, Milla Nova and Kaviar Gauche, while laser-cut florals adorned the Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia’s latest Oscar de la Renta bridal lineup.
Elsewhere, Amsale head designer Michael Cho and chief creative officer Sarah Swan said their latest bridal collection was inspired by the Japanese art of floral arranging, ikebana.
“Ikebana design is all about simplicity, understated elegance, balance, harmony and a divine respect for nature; its goal is to convey a specific feeling or emotion to the observer,” collection notes read of their floral jacquard numbers and large-scale, sculptural blossom and stem embellishments.
Beyond bouquet-like wedding gowns, bridal designers further injected the idea through bridal accessories, as seen through Vera Wang Bride’s decorative floral headpieces, Viktor & Rolf Mariage’s hair accesories, and Nadia Manjarrez dramatic veils.
Launch Gallery: Fall Bridal Trend 2024: Bloom
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