David and Victoria Beckham pose on their wedding day in 1999.Photo:David Beckham/Instagram
David Beckham/Instagram
In her more than three decades of designing wedding dresses for everyone fromGwen StefaniandAriana GrandetoJessica SimpsonandKim Kardashian,Vera Wanghas gone to extreme lengths to ensure each of her custom designs is a perfect fit.
And when it came to creating the champagne ball gownVictoria Beckhamwore to tie the knot with husbandDavid Beckhamin 1999, that meant four flights between New York City and London. But Wang wasn’t the one racking up all those frequent flier miles — it was the dress. Specifically its architectural sculpted bodice.
David and Victoria Beckham tied the knot in July 1999.David Beckham/Instagram
Wang says Mr. Pearl’s corsets are designed to achieve an almost impossibly slim waist. (Mister Pearl famously created the corset in Kim Kardashian’scustom “dripping wet” Thierry Mugler dressat the 2019 Met Gala.)
“He makes corsets that have to be pulled [in] with these metal things, which is how corsets were done in the old days,” she explains. “It takes about 45 minutes to lace up, and it can take your waist down to literally 18 inches [like] Scarlett O’Hara.”
She admits she finds that degree of cinching too extreme herself. “I could not live with that because I need to be comfortable, as I always say. But Victoria did.”
Wang flew over to London to fit the corset portion of Victoria’s dress on the former Spice Girl, and Victoria also came to New York twice for fittings.
When Victoria became pregnant with her and David’s first child, sonBrooklyn, the dress project was put on pause.
“So then we delayed the wedding for two years,” Wang recalls. “Then we resumed, or maybe a year and a half. So that is [what] I call the transatlantic wedding with Victoria and David.”
She even remembers a tiny Brooklyn, now 24, “crawling around on the bed in London” while his mom was doing her dress fittings.
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In a fun throwback moment, Victoria re-wore her wedding dress, which featured a dramatic, 20-foot train, in a video forBritish Voguein September 2018.
While the Vera Wang design remains one of the most iconic celebrity wedding gowns of all time, it wasn’t the only dress Victoria wore on her wedding day. She and David, 48, famously showed up to their reception at Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin wearing color-coordinated purple looks.
David and Victoria Beckham wear coordinating purple looks at their wedding reception.Victoria Beckham/Instagram
Victoria Beckham/Instagram
The couple poked fun at their regretful, “very ’90s” fashion choices in the newNetflixdocuseriesBeckham.
“I tried to think back to when I decided to wear a purple suit. I don’t know when that happened,” David said, laughing sheepishly. “I think I just took Victoria’s lead on it. But what… what were we thinking?”
Victoria — who has since built an eponymous fashion empire on her impeccable sense of style — defended the couple’s very loud reception looks.
“But it was fun,” she insisted. “We weren’t worried about what people would say. I mean, Christ, how lovely to be that way when you just really don’t care.”
The Beckham family attends the London premiere of ‘Beckham’ on Oct. 3.Gareth Cattermole/Getty
Gareth Cattermole/Getty
The Beckhams proved their style evolution when theystepped out to the London premiere ofBeckhamon Tuesday night. David looked dashing in a tailored navy blue suit and muted blue tie, while his wife wore a chic white double-breasted pant suit and black pumps.
Harper even carried a purse from her mom’s own brand, theChain Pouch Bag, to accessorize her pale pink floor-length dress. Romeo, meanwhile, put a new spin on evening wear, sporting an oversized chocolate-brown wrap-style suit jacket and pleated, drop-crotch pants.
Beckhamis streaming. now on Netflix.
source: people.com
