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    • Ivana: Fire Light Camps in Fall
    • Piscean Pursuits: Part I, Before Sunrise
    • Jewel Box: Gems in Ludlowville Falls
    • Beautiful Ruins: To the Edge of Love and Back
    • Debuted: June of Ithaca, Private Label Collection
    • Dressed: Fillmore as Antarctica
    • Cinderella: Liquid Sunshine at Inn at Taughannock
    • Revisionist: Lorna in Sleeping Beauty
    • Ophelia: Creek Scene at Ithaca Falls
    • American Swan: Carolyn's Whimsy
    • Piscean: Juliet in a Spanish Tempest
    • Julietta: Simple and Backless
    • Gwyneth: Beauty and Her Beast
    • Casual: Modern Juliet
    • Poetic: The Romantic Bride
    • Editorial: Around The Tiers
    • Live: The Styled Shoot as Entertainment
    • Haute Hippie: Bohemian Bride at Hotel Ithaca
    • Ethereal: Winter's Bohemian Bride
    • Pristine: Little White Dresses
    • Lovely: The Civic Bride
    • Romance: CFDA Official, NYFW

The Veil & High Fashion

July 14, 2016 Layne Dann

In Ancient Civilizations the Veil was an indication of class. As early as the Greek's, Roman's, Persian's and Egyptian's veils were a necessary adornment used to identify class rank, gender, and a public 'branding' between the peasantry and the elite.  Commoner's could be punished for wearing a veil and yet, the first Egyptian Feminist to refuse the veil, inspired a revolution among other upper-class women to do the same.

In the West, the veil for us is a question: To wear or not to wear but, to the world at large it is still a matter of religion, chastity, protection and legal or ethical law.  It is probably this very paradox that has kept the veil in fashion since ancient civilization.

High fashion has always favored the juxtaposition between the taboo, moral, artistic and street.  It was such polar opposites brought together in a single garment, namely a dress, that inspired my taste as a child.  We haven't had a Barbie Bride quite as extravagant and pageant like since the '90's! 

This fashion shoot reminds me of an era gone by in which; Super Model's were tall, curvy, 'Angels' who wore Versace and joked about $10,000 a day to get out of bed.  For me this shoot reminds me of the first time I saw Linda Evangelista modeling as a Bride and Cindy Crawford in her Galliano mini-wedding dress.    

The High Fashion Fascinator was made from fiber-rich-linen paper, organza, and lace applique's.  It is pictured below with and without the veil.

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