First of all, I’d like to note that Kate Moss is so much prettier to me when she’s smiling than when she’s being KATE MOSS: SULLEN MODEL:
She looks sincerely happy, and that is the prettiest look for a bride, period. Also: those kids are super cute. I’ve decided I clearly shall have a wedding party full of children once Jon Hamm makes an honest woman of me. And I actually think I like the dress — it’s very her, but still glamorous and a bit retro. Also: SHINY. (I’m trying to judge it without thinking about how disgusted I am by John Galliano, who custom designed it, but it’s hard. I know they have been friends for twenty years, and that he was one of the first people to reach out to her after Her Coke Scandal, and I know that a person can be talented and TERRIBLE simultaneously, and that the discussion of how much an artist’s personal grossness ought to play into your assessment of his work is a very, very long one. But. You know. )
Anyway. All that aside, I was liking it…UNTIL:
Um. That’s really sheer. And while I don’t expect Kate Moss to be, like, the very model of virginal decorum on her wedding day, IT’S ALSO YOUR WEDDING DAY. KEEP A LID ON IT A LITTLE BIT. Like, maybe have the sheer part start lower down than your crotch. I’m just saying.
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Those kids really are adorable and I love the look of an all-white wedding party. However, the bridegroom looks like his pants don’t fit properly – they’re too skinny and wrap around his legs as though holding on for dear life.
Why does it look like no one in the bridal party could afford a brush?
The powder-blue suit kind of hurts my soul (so 1981!), but I love how happy they all look. (It’s also good to see her looking so healthy!) Re the dress: I’m really enamored of the fabric the overlay is done in — that silver detail is lovely! But I would like one of the underlayers to be a bit more on the opaque side. Still. Gorgeous.
I like the way the embroidery actually contrasts with the fabric well enough to show in photographs. I can’t help but marvel at the accomplishment of affixing all that stuff to a fabric so sheer without any evidence of bunching. Still, hinting at that much of the bride’s mysteries is not terribly appealing.
Shame on him for getting married in his most comfortable pair of old boots.
The second photo made me laugh. One of the little sprites has a finger firmly up her nose!
I ADORE the nouveau-ness of the veil. If I were getting married I would be finding a way to copy that INSTANTLY.
I also think there’s a nice interpretation of 1920s going on with the sheer dress. I accept this as high fashion-does-wedding.
Where on earth does one find a harem of gorgeous little girls? Cause when I got married, all I had was my niece. Don’t get me wrong, shes cute and all but 5 or 6 more her would have been cuter.
As far as her dress? I feel like in the right light I could see vag. And that just isn’t something I need to see on anyone’s wedding day.
A simple slip would have perfected her look, I LOVE the dress! But the groom? Ugh. Hate. it. all.
I’d love the dress without the sheerness. I don’t understand the trend of the sheer skirt. The applique is so perfectly lovely that it does make me wish someone other than Galliano was responsible for it. I know he’s a genius and unbelievably talented or whatever but at the moment his name is tainted for me.
Other than the dress, the veil is divine and the little girls are magical. I want my bridal party to have at least half a dozen. I wonder if you can rent tons of little British children for special occasions?
I gave it a ‘fabulous’ but with an explanation. Only Kate Moss, the Queen of the Waifs can and should get away with a sheer wedding dress. It suits her and all the skinny modelling that she stands for; totally appropriate.
I really like the sparkles and the overall idea of the dress, but I have to say you guys have the most flattering pictures I’ve seen of her that day. It sounds horrible since she is Kate Moss the Model, but she really needed some undergarments to smooth things out. Even if you are a toothpick, Spanx do a lot to just generally smooth things out for the rest of the world; it doesn’t mean you are fat or out of shape or whatever, just that you are human, and if your dress does not have structure it will cause issues. That and you could see her nips in some of the pictures too. Like you ladies said, cover it up for the wedding day.
So, for underpinnings she’s wearing running shorts? And seriously, where does one go to rent that many cute little girls? (that look s much worse written down than it sounded in my head, but seioursly? where?).
In this case, I am too distracted by him. Though you could argue some points of his ensemble are a bit doofy looking, he makes one strangely smokin’ rocker-groom.
This sheer trend is getting out of hand. It looks like they’re all wearing their grandmother’s underwear, and realized as they were walking out that maybe they should put a little more on, so they grabbed the lining of the living room curtain and wrapped it around them in their haste. Tired of it. When so silly a trend expands to bridal attire, it’s just gone too far.
PS – anyone who can have a dozen flower girls set up like a Calvin Klein commercial can also stage her wedding to include a sheer gown.
I seriously bought a dress that is eerily like that one in, in black, in 2002.
I still own it. I trotted it out a couple years ago for an event so . . I love it. Hah.
I gave it a “FUG” but not just for the sheer, which I’m on the fence about — it doesn’t look like it fits her even a bit. Surely Galliano’s hench-alterers could have done a little better than “saggy around the boobs and bunchy around the waist”?
Also, blinded by powder blue suit as pointed out above. I don’t know, I just don’t know.
The sheerness kills it for me. Really, this is not an ad for vaginal cleanser. Plus, skinny supermodel or not, she has a pouchie tummy. Get thee some spanx, woman. But the woodland elves she’s imported as flower girls are presh.
It just looked ‘right’, powder blue suit and visible undies and all. Kind of like a really high class smiling shambles, but in a good way. My mother is on here? who mentioned hair brushes? sheesh. Lovely.
I’m with Julie on this one – it’s all kind of fabulously cattywampus, but everybody looks really happy and that dress is very her, and who can argue with that? I love the idea of a celebrity having a wedding that’s feels personal and not so styled to death.
Oh this is a big no from me…. this sheer crap needs to stop.
@Evalyn I think she IS wearing running shorts under it, yuck.
The kidlets are adorable though
I find the groom’s shoes very distracting. I also think nobody remembered to tell him they weren’t going with the Italian Mobster Summer Wedding theme anymore.
I think her dress is kind of beautiful – sheer and everything – but for her and only her. But then again, we are in 2011 and wedding dresses can be the perfect opportunity to escape commonplace and wear something that only you can pull it off.
PS: Not to be rude, but people who said Kate Moss has a tummy NEED TO STOP. I won’t even go any further.
I Fabbed it for the happy.
SUCH a bad famous-wedding weekend otherwise, yet here these two are. I don’t care if her dress is sheer. I don’t care if she has a little issue with her own teeth. I don’t care if they got the passel of kids from Cherubs 4 Rent.
They’re delirious … especially him. Look at that guy! He’s the luckiest hipster in the world. He’s hit the world’s biggest, richest Lotto, and the prize is Kate. I think his suit is tacky, and I ADORE HIM.
Here’s to love. FAB. <3
Jamie Hince, the rarely-named groom, is a seriously talented musician in one of my all-time favorite bands (The Kills — NOT the Killers). He does have the name recognition of the last boyfriend, because he’s not a train wreck. The Kills are very loud, and probably not to the taste of most of Fug Nation, but they can bring it. His musical partner, Allison Mosshart, is notably younger than he, and they have the most intense, loving, adorable chemistry on stage. She was his best woman, although I’ve yet to see what she wore — I believe it was also a YSL suit, but I don’t know if it was powder blue. He always wears beat up boots. It’s a rock’n'roll full fashion wedding, and as such I think just about perfect.
Now I must forgive him for marrying one of the world’s most annoying famous people. Is it hidden depths, or hidden shallows? I know not, but they seem really happy.
…does NOT have the name recognition, etc.
I love it. On the sheer, I have to wonder if it’s intentionally sheer in all lighting, or if it’s meant to be a bit of sheer and the sun backlit her legs more than expected.
A classic rocker-chis wedding here. (Only the Brits can really pull that off, I think.) They look lovely together, it’s great to see Kate smile like that, and the veil is to die for. Hope the Fug Girls post some photos of the rehearsal dinner — Kate’s outfit that night was fairy-tale gorgeous, with awesome boots. And I can’t say it enough — Heather and Jessica make my day! What was the internet before the Fug Girls?? Not nearly fun enough!
Him? Yech. In a word.
Her? Ahh, if only half-slips were still considered essential. That’s the only thing she needs, just a white half-slip. Why, oh why?
I wish Kate Middleton had worn this on her wedding day…just kidding, this is the sort of thing that only Kate Moss can get away with because she’s Kate Motherf*cking Moss!
I guess the kids belong to friends of hers. I believe the little girl on the right with the long blondish hair is Kate’s daughter Lila Grace – you can see a resemblence.
Don’t like it. Looks like something a resident brothel-ite might wear for a quickie wedding ala tablecloth over chemise.
hands down the most beautiful wedding dress ever. love love love the art deco feel.
Perfection. Fairy land. Very Kate. Love.
Gorgeous woman, gorgeous dress/veil, gorgeous wedding party. And the point is, you can’t see her crotch cake, now can you? (Well, maybe if she were sprayed with champagne….)
In every photo I’ve seen of them doing the stroll around the village the little girl with short brown hair is studiously trying to edge Kate’s daughter out of the prime photo position of holding her mothers hand. Take a look, it’s hilarious.
She clearly realised that the closer she got the more likely she was going to be in all the shots.
NIPPLES. NOT COOL. WAAAAY WORSE THAN SHEER.
I appreciate the look the groom was going for but hire a good tailor for God’s sake! Kate always seems to go for tacky, which is too bad because this dress could have been so good, without the super-sheerness. Her daughter is so very pretty! Just look at that smile.
For want of a light, handkerchief hemmed skirt lining…. (sigh) Just one or two more little squares, covering up the Promised Land in front and in back. Otherwise, she and her delightful minions are right out of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Him, unpeg the pants a tad and he’s fine. He has exceptionally nice sleeve tailoring.
I approve of it all, because it’s her wedding and she got married exactly the way she wanted, and she looks the happiest I’ve ever seen her, and she managed to corral all those children, which is a feat unto itself. I even dig his look, blue and boots and all. That said, I still think she looks … grimy. Like, it’s been a looooong day.
i like it because the solid part ends like a faux girdle with tabs for hose. it’s a cute little trompe l’oeil.
also… couldn’t comment on your charlotte post above — but it’s her brother, not her uncle, who got married. maybe you were making fun of him, i dunno. i know there’s a song named uncle albert, and the guy is so doughy and icky he could be her uncle…
i love everyone except the groom! he doesn’t look like a stylish kate moss-husband at all, rather those pictures make him seem like some dorky long lost cousin that she’s laughing at while taking an obligatory picture with.
I read the inspiration for the dress was Zelda Fitzgerald, and I totally see that. She looks lovely and happy, though I really wish she had done something/anything with her hair, and once I saw the second shot, I too wished there had been a long slip involved.
Her husband kind of looks like Robert Downey Jr. in costume for a movie.
I love the dress itself, though I agree the sheerness is a little off-putting. I feel like it distracts from Kate herself, and a wedding dress should be the wrapping on a fantastic bride package, not the box itself. ALAS, it is her wedding, and who am I to criticize a choice that personal? She radiates regardless.
As for the groom, I can handle the blue suit. I just wish he’d done something different with his hair.
Although I am not a Moss-covite… this dress is very her. The sheerness (you can see nips in some pics and what’s a kate shot without nips?), the fairy-hipster chic style, the fact that it’s a Galiano…
It’s not that sheer, is it? Isn’t it just one of those unfortunate camera angles, facing towards the sun, like the famous Princess Di skirt one with the sun seeming to literally shine out of her ass?
I feel like this may just be a trick of the light… and it wasn’t as sheer as that in ‘real life’. Not a Mossy fan but she does look pretty bloody fabulous here.
Too distracted by the groom. The only things I really like are her happy face and the veil.
@minette: charlotte casiraghi is the daughter of princess caroline, the sister of prince albert who got married. hence, albert is charlotte’s uncle.
I don’t love it, but I LIKE IT… I think is all the sparkles!!!
Love the dress, but the sheer is unnecessary. Very her.
People saying that Kate Moss needs Spanx are insane.
She looks so beautiful here, I adore the dress, and I am not even a fan of hers. Lovely.
I think the sheer part is HILARIOUS. Like, if you wanna wear white like a traditional bride, the sheer bits are quite a wink to the alleged purity of this particular bride.
I also like how it looks. I’m shallow and easily amused.
I think she looked so beautiful and natural, and it’s her wedding day, not ours. She can do whatever she likes and completely get away with it.
Very few-years-out-of-date-circa-1970′s-Hippy-with-money-wedding. And that baby blue suit to match is just cut wrong–pants too long and tight for that body, double breasted jacket pulls like it was cut for someone smaller. Is he wearing cowboy boots with it, too?
Kate looks quite lovely, wouldn’t change a thing there. But he is no Johnny Depp. He doesn’t dress any worse (maybe even better) than JD…and I like The Kills…but for sheer manly beauty, there is simply no comparison. None of this matters to the happy couple, of course…it’s just that I always think of Johnny Depp when I see Kate Moss. In fact, maybe that’s why I even like her in the first place.
i agree with whoever mentioned that this is all about lighting- that shot is SO back lit by the bright sun, it surely wasn’t not sheer like that in person. the dress is stunning. even if tinged by galliano’s fug.
also, a flock of little girls in white is how the brits do bridesmaids. when i was engaged to a brit there was a big controversy over my not wanting to have his little neices as “bridesmaids” but flower girls, because they were like 3 and 4!
Love the bohemian feel of this wedding. Love the colors, the veil, the older bridesmaids, even the blue suit.
The dress looks odd at her hips from all angles…like Tinkerbell in a too-short skirt.
Extending a simple streamlined sheath to her ankles, along with the shear overlay, would make it perfect!!
Oh, good for them! Do what you bloody want on your wedding day and who cares if a bunch of strangers give a shit. I just look at this and think, ‘how romantic’.
i love Jamie’s suit. he’s amazing. SHE’S the one that married up. he could have had Alison Mosshart for pete’s sake.
my take on it here: http://www.allidoistalkandwant.tumblr.com
I just really miss not seeing the classic wedding photo of the happy couple cutting the coke!
Love both of their outfits. Perfect for a rockstar marrying a coked out model.
What others have said – there’s a time and a place for seeing ones legs and I’m not sure that that’s on your wedding day. In a church. No-one is saying she’s overweight but the dress would have looked tons better with another layer of whatever it is (so sheer but not quite THAT sheer) and some proper underwear. Wear a bloody bra woman, you’re nearly 40! This sounds like I don’t like her look, I think she, and all her little bridesmaids, looked fantastic. Just could have done with a bit more decorum I think.